There are some codecs that are in common use that aren't going to allow for
sRGB so they will gamma shift internally.   I believe Animation is one of
those.  (iirc)    I always leave that codec and gamma I deliver to the
client.   There are still people out there with older FCP boxes(not old FCP
but OLD OS) that will want 1.8.
Randy S. Little
http://www.rslittle.com <http://reel.rslittle.com>




On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:21, Fredrik Averpil <[email protected]>wrote:

> Yes, that's true. I meant sRGB in my initial post and not 2.2. Sorry for
> that ...
>
> // Fredrik
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Nathan Rusch <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> When most people say "gamma 2.2," they're referring to sRGB... 2.2 just
>> happens to do a pretty good job of approximating an sRGB curve when you
>> only have a single parameter to play with.
>>
>> -Nathan
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Jep Hill
>> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 9:44 AM
>> To: 
>> [email protected].**co.uk<[email protected]>
>> Subject: [Nuke-users] Quicktime gamma 1.8
>>
>>
>> Could be wrong here, but I think Gamma 1.8 was based on the fact that OSX
>> pre-Snow Leopard (10.6) used default Gamma of 1.8 and, more importantly,
>> Quicktimes used to be encoded with Gamma 1.8... As Paul suggests, this is
>> easily over-ridden in defaults.
>>
>> Gamma 2.2 is the default monitor gamma however, for the past few years,
>> most Quicktimes are encoded sRGB -- I encourage you to view the movies in
>> Quicktime and compare them to the same MOV loaded into a read node in Nuke
>> with Gamma 2.2 and the same clip loaded in at sRGB -- pay special attention
>> to the blacks. Now, this *is* assuming your not viewing in QuickTime Pro
>> with "Enable Final Cut Studio color compatibility" checked. In most cases,
>> you may find that sRGB is actually a better match than Gamma 2.2 -- let me
>> know if you guys are seeing different results! And then there's the case
>> where your footage was ingested/encoded by an ad-hoc setup by someone that
>> may have no interest in correct settings and just wants to get it out of
>> the way ASAP... but, I'm sure that's never happened to any of you ;)
>>
>> Bearing in mind that Nuke's defaults are meant to start us off in the
>> right place for a majority if cases, I agree that the Foundry might
>> consider changing the default from 1.8, however, I'm not sure that Gamma
>> 2.2 is the best choice considering the colorspace setting is meant to
>> account for what the footage was encoded with rather than the viewing
>> device -- sRGB may be a better choice.
>>
>> Regardless, no matter -- that's why we have the ability to over-ride the
>> defaults to fit our color pipeline.
>>
>> In cases where the Quicktimes are actually Arri Alexa captures or R3D
>> proxy files, you may not want Gamma 2.2 or sRGB...
>>
>> By the way, since we're suggesting changes in the Read node's behavior
>> when loading Quicktimes, we may also want to change the default to
>> "start_at" 0 in order to keep the MOV 1:1 with most Apple apps. (Yes, we
>> over-ride this in our custom settings too)
>>
>> Just my $.02...
>>
>> Cheers,
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