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February 26, 2024
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Footage in Source and Timeline are not the same | Black Looking Pixleated/Crushed/Posterized??

  • February 26, 2024
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So I have some footage that, while darker than expected out of the camera, looks just fine when I import it. But as soon as I drop it on the timeline it looks awful.

I am not sure what words I'm looking for but if you look around the black pixels in the gentleman's shirt it looks pixelated or even posterized? Not sure what's happening. It was a B camera that I rented from sharegrid. BUT it was the same body as mine, with the same settings, even checked the metadata and it's all the same as my A footage from my camera, which looks amazing. But when it is on the timeline it just looks unusable. 

The photos below are from the exact same clip the only difference is one is being viewed in my source monitor and the worse one is on my timeline.'

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Hines Hands-On Media
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February 27, 2024

I'm new to the more nitty-gritty technical stuff. Is this what you are looking for @R Neil Haugen ? 

R Neil Haugen
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February 26, 2024

And we need a screengrab dropped on the text reply area of the entire Lumetri panel Settings tab ... all the CM stuff, each section opened so we see the Project settings, Display, Sequence, Clip et al.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Ann Bens
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February 26, 2024
Hines Hands-On Media
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February 27, 2024

It looks like the original clip color space was "1-18-1" whereas my A-camera was "Rec. 709". I clicked the "Override Media colorspace" and changed it to Rec. 709 and it seems to look normal. Was this the proper way to do it?

R Neil Haugen
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February 27, 2024

Yes.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...