Hey folks.... more thoughts to throw out there....
Proper Saturation Levels. I have been playing around with these levels the last couple days after thinking that some shots from my AVCHD cam that I did at the beach the other day seemed to be heavily saturated. Using the vectorscope I can see that often the reds are way up there and sometimes beyond 100%.
Now from what I read NTSC states that colors cannot be more than 75% saturated to ensure a broadcast safe signal. So I am wondering - if I was to comply with NTSC standards should I pull down the saturation on the offending clips till the most saturated points are down to 75% (say the reds for example).
I have for kicks imported some Blu Ray (1080 24p) film material to look at their levels. and I notice that for one thing the waveform seems to have less contrast than most NTSC material. The tested scene was a bright day shot with blown out sky and even then, only registered 75-80% for whites on the waveform meter. But what I found interesting is the vectorscope shows that the colors were only roughly 40% saturated. I guess this the nature of film.
What I am wondering is what people see as being a safe saturation level? I find often decreasing the saturation on the clips from my cam are most pleasant and easy to look at. How about you guys?
Cheers,
Chris
Proper Saturation Levels. I have been playing around with these levels the last couple days after thinking that some shots from my AVCHD cam that I did at the beach the other day seemed to be heavily saturated. Using the vectorscope I can see that often the reds are way up there and sometimes beyond 100%.
Now from what I read NTSC states that colors cannot be more than 75% saturated to ensure a broadcast safe signal. So I am wondering - if I was to comply with NTSC standards should I pull down the saturation on the offending clips till the most saturated points are down to 75% (say the reds for example).
I have for kicks imported some Blu Ray (1080 24p) film material to look at their levels. and I notice that for one thing the waveform seems to have less contrast than most NTSC material. The tested scene was a bright day shot with blown out sky and even then, only registered 75-80% for whites on the waveform meter. But what I found interesting is the vectorscope shows that the colors were only roughly 40% saturated. I guess this the nature of film.
What I am wondering is what people see as being a safe saturation level? I find often decreasing the saturation on the clips from my cam are most pleasant and easy to look at. How about you guys?
Cheers,
Chris