Any Thoughts on Why This Happened?

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kookooframe

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I just finished a piece in FCP7 and burned a blu-ray (onto DVD) using the Share tab. I've done this before with good results. This time, however, all my color correction seems way overemphasized -- oversaturated, too dark when I crushed blacks, etc. I didn't use Color, just the color correction filter in FCP7. The timeline that I'm burning from is 1920X1080p at 24fps. The footage is from a Sony FS100 camera. Hmmm. I'm coming down to deadline on the project and the color correction is so bad, it seems my only option is to go back and turn off the filter on all the clips, and just live with the flat uncorrected image. I don't think I could tweak all the clips more subtly in time for the deadline

The project looks great when I play it from the timeline on my iMac. But the blu-ray looks pretty bad. I am going to try burning the blu-ray in Roxio and see if that helps.

Has anyone had similar problems or surprises like this? Any suggestions appreciated!
 
kookooframe said:
Has anyone had similar problems or surprises like this? Any suggestions appreciated!
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I have had those problems with FCP from version 1.2 to version 7.

At one point, I remember that FCP would render stuff too bright and the solution was just to disable and then re-enable the clip (which flushed the render buffer).

The long-term solution was: switching to Avid.

Sorry man.

The short-term solution is: go back to your FCP project and ease off on the crushing of the blacks... or try to find some color balance / gamma / color interpretation settings that fix things in an intermediate app or the Blu-Ray app.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com
 
Thanks, Bruce. I disabled all color correction on the whole project, probably going to have to live with that. I've noticed the FCP gamma problems before, and there are endless posts on it, but I've always been able to tweak around it. Not this time though, and I suspect it has something to do with the different camera I'm using and the different kind of files it gives me. (Sony FS 100 as opposed to the Canon XH-A1 I've previously used). I could perhaps learn the tendencies just as I learned them with the XH-A1 footage, but there just isn't time right now before the deadline.

It's a shame to have to buy Avid or Premiere just to dependably color-correct. All the FCP users must have SOME reason for using FCP -- it can't be THAT fatally flawed.

Or maybe it is, and people just learn to work around it...
 
You could always throw the project into Color - it'll maintain your 3-way settings and you can also tweak curves, add secondaries, and play with FX nodes. Then you'll just render the project in Color and bounce back to FCP - that might solve some problems and it will only take the additional render time.
 
How did it look on your calibrated broadcast monitor (connected via a SDI or HDMI capture card) before you made the Blu-Ray?
 
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