compressing the color red... HELP

[concon310]

ok, so I have a problem.

Shooting the color red on a p2 card, and then compressing the video down (in final cut) for streaming on the internet, i'm getting a slight zebra effect with the color red. in other words, the clips look very nice before compression. but after compressing the video the edges of red look "blocky." is there any way around this occurrence or another way of compressing that i don't know about?

[gunleik]

Desaturate reds before going to a 4:2:0 or 4:1:1 codec

Reds are a pita


Gunleik

[ProfessorU]

Wikipedia has a pretty good article explaining why, if you're wondering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4:4:4

[gunleik]

Nice article.

This together with the

"why does your image not look like it does on your computer monitor when you watch it on: XXX
(fill in whatever from another computer monitor to different TV and projectors here)

Should be a first read for most aspiring editors...

Where's that last article?

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Gunleik