Final Cut Pro Technical Baffler
March 16th, 2009Trying to find some technical explanation for this.
When exporting from Final Cut Pro (either through Compressor, Quicktime-Conversion, or just saving as Quicktime) it always massively desaturates the file. I only noticed this happening after I upgraded to FCP6.
‘Welcome to my Study" is full of rich forest greens and burgandies, but on export, it looks totally "nuh."
In this particular case (above), the green-screened figure was desaturated MORE than the background and covered in noise. It looks like something from MYST. Like a layer of gauze on top. (This layer has color-correction and chromakey filters on it.)
All the settings are correct. There’s no compression involved—they’re full-framed quicktimes. I have to uncheck the "make everything look like shit" button if I can ever find it.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
It’s a bug in FCP/Quicktime somewhere, it boosts the gamma for some odd reason. There’s a hack below to deal with the situaion, but it seems quite nerdy.
http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/aadams/story/quicktime/
March 16th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
I’m relieved there’s an explanation and it’s not my fault.