Onset Monitoring not matching Redcine

[Troy Smith]

We are having an issue where the onset picture on the monitor has much lower blacks and more saturation then the Red lcd, and redcine, we are on build 17, Redspace/Rec 709, while we can simply lower the saturation alot on the onset monitor and raise the brightness a bit so it all matches from onset to redcine and red lcd, I just wanted to know if this is normal, or a possible problem with our redone.

Do you all find the output of the redone to be quite saturated and contrasty.

We tried a few different monitors, and all looked very contrasty and saturated compared to red lcd and back in the studio in redcine.

Any info on this appreciated.

Thanks
Stricko

 

[Simon Blackledge]

Aren't the gamma and colour space the same off the camera?

Have you changed it in redcine to redspace/rec709 ?

Normally if you shoot redspace it will be redspace/redspace so thats what your viewing on set and like you said slightly more contrasty and saturated.

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[Troy Smith]

Aren't the gamma and colour space the same off the camera?

Have you changed it in redcine to redspace/rec709 ?

Normally if you shoot redspace it will be redspace/redspace so thats what your viewing on set and like you said slightly more contrasty and saturated.

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Yea in redspace we put it on the same as when we shot, we dont' use redspace/redspace, but even if we did, redspace/redspace on our monitor on set is way way contrasty/saturated then the red lcd, or redcine back at the studio, just wondering if the outputs on the red cam are meant to be much more contrasty/saturated then the red lcd and redcine, basically are the outputs meant to be much more saturated then a regular output, for example, if we shoot redspace/rec709, take that and render it to dvd, then play that dvd on a hdtv, its way different to the output from the red camera.

 

[Chris Parker]

i like using camera RGB/Rec 709 in REDCine, as this gives me the cleanest palette to work from usually.

 

[Rich Schaefer]

You may want to try Rec 709 will make the on set monitors look less contrasty. It is a mellower "S" curve than Redspace. And it's only metadata.

 

[Tyler Black]

This may be too simple an answer, but maybe someone jacked up the brightness on your onboard LCD. Someone from the RED team here recently suggested it be set to 4 or 5 clicks down from the highest setting.