What do these cable TV specs mean?

Les Wilson · March 20th, 2009, 06:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Heiko Saele

The SMPTE are the ones FCP creates in play out mode, the ones with the extra color boxes. They are also 100/75 on the color bar part.

You can create 100/100 EBU color bars with FCP from the "other bars and signals" menu, but you will see immediately these look way oversaturated.

I'm not clear on what 75% SMPTE color bars are. Are the FCP bars from the Video Generators wrong and the ones from Print to Video right?

David W. Jones · March 20th, 2009, 08:02 AM

Put the bars you want to use on your timeline, and check the reading on your waveform monitor & vector scope. You should immediately be able to tell.

March 20th, 2009, 08:02 AM	#17
David W. Jones Trustee Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Little Rock Posts: 1,383	Put the bars you want to use on your timeline, and check the reading on your waveform monitor & vector scope. You should immediately be able to tell.