Encoding for Projected Images

soulsurfmedia

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Hi Everyone
Last night we did an outdoor movie screening of my first film - but I was really bummed out to see how dark the image was on the screen. I realize that we had some ambient light - but you could hardly see people's faces in their interviews - it was really disheartening. I also know that lumens of the projector really plays into it - so I am looking for some general advice. We are showing again next weekend at a festival and I am really freaked out about image quality. In your experience when dealing with an image to projected- do you change up the gamma or other settings to make the images brighter to compensate for the brightness loss from the projector? Any advice you have would be appreciated - I have never dealt with projectors so any advice is really appreciated. Thanks everyone. Chris (BTW - the festival will be showing on either blu ray or DVD - I am giving them both, last night we did a quicktime file straight from my macbook)
 
Encoding itself has little to do with the projector here, but yeah, you could boost up the gamma or general brightness of the image. It will look "flatter", but you will be compensating for the ambient light anyway.
 
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