Color Bars

[Joel Kaye]

Ok, I think I sense weeks of insanity about to begin.

Between weird web browser rendering, Quicktime gamma issues, NLE differences, Video player differences and 2000 different monitors we're all not close to looking at the same images right now.

I'd like to recommend discerning posters add a frame of color bars and perhaps a frame of another known item like a MacBeth color chart or DSC Labs chart to their clips.

Stills could contain very small color bars in the corner of the image.

At least that would give everyone an instant sanity check. It has to be IN the clip though so we know what our environment is doing to that clip.

(yeah - theoretically a calibrated system wouldn't need something like this and we all should go calibrate our systems...)

[Seung Han]

...and with my clips I would like,

caramel popcorn and a large Sprite :clown2:

[Kevin Halverson]

Good idea joelnet, even a neutral gray bar would be a good starting point.

On another related front, do we know if the camera will generate color bars (either with our without a LUT applied) in its current firmware version?

[Michael Schrengohst]

Yes, a color chart shot would help. Back to the film days!
I remember sitting in so many film to tape sessions
where the camera guys forgot to shoot a chart on
particular set-ups. The colorist would give it go
and the clients would always want to tweak it.