Re: iMovie color management
Re: iMovie color management
- Subject: Re: iMovie color management
- From: Scott Martin <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 04:12:07 -0500
> The codec you mention doesn't seem to be available for iMovie,
I’m messing around with iMovie this morning and it’s clearly simplifying things by making certain choices for you. I suspect it uses H264 across the board.
> however I did find some posts that FCP seemed to have less of this problem.
FCPX totally has the same problem, until the codec is changed to ProRes4222HQ or higher. Set it to anything less and the problem is obvious.
> On the other hand, your attention to night images and use in FCP may undermine that conclusion.
Thanks. Let’s not forget iMovie is just a simplified version of FCPX. To understand FCPX is to better understand iMovie. iMovie doesn’t give the user control over certain things - like the codec!
> I found some speculation that the hammering takes place at import, but little about how to change that result, and there aren't that many options for tiff preparation anyway, a tiff is a tiff.
Right, I suspect FCPX is mastering in H264 from the beginning, which would explain the shadow tonality getting hammered. I hear you on this loud and clear. I’ve used a gajillion timelapse applications and they all hammer the tonality. Cleaner tonality really is the domain of a pro level app like FCPX and After Effects, unfortunately.
Scott Martin
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