What Colorspace for rendering AVCHD-Lite Source?

hydrogin wrote on 4/27/2010, 11:34 PM
I shoot a lot of video with a Panasonic digicam that produces AVCHD-Lite source material. The WMV renders are usually uploaded to Youtube and viewed on a PC.

I just got a Panasonic Plasma TV that is Youtube-compatible and would like to optimize the color of my renders for viewing on the TV. So far, they seem a bit washed out so I'm guessing there is some kind of colorspace conversion issue going on.

I assume AVCHD-Lite uses computer RGB (0-255) so my thinking is it may be appropriate to use VMSP 9's "Color Correction" filter to convert to studio RGB (16-235). If that is the right thing to do, however, I'm not sure how YT's re-encoding to Flash will affect colors.

Does anybody have any thoughts or tips on the matter?

Thanks,

Lance

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musicvid10 wrote on 4/28/2010, 8:02 AM
That would be going the wrong direction.
WMV compresses to sRGB, so that is (part of the reason) why it looks washy.
You can find lengthy discussions and analysis of this in the pro forums by doing a search.

It is generally thought that there are better options for delivery to Youtube, AVC being one of them.