I know there’s been some discussion here of late on the much-dreaded QT gamma shift. Obviously, I’ve suffered it’s maddening effects many, many, many times.

Turning over a feature I’ve just finished, I’ve been exporting reels for everyone’s use, and of course, something that looks swell in MC, comes out all crushed and muddy and dense in the resulting Same-as-Source output. But this doesn’t happen every time, and for me it almost never happens on the MC Same-as-Source export. Usually it happens in the next step, if I then take the Avid codec QT and transcode to, say ProRes or H264 (using MPEG Streamclip, Compressor, whatever).

But again, lately, it’s been emerging from the SAS export severely gamma-shifted. I recount all this as prologue to asking if there is something I might be doing wrong on export. I mean, how many things can you do wrong on a Same-as-Source export, but who knows?

And then, of course, when the hell are editing apps going to ditch QT in favor of something that actually works?

Much obliged.



David Dodson
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