Quicktime gamma fix?

[James Press]

In the most recent redcentre podcast Mike mentions that Apple (may) have fixed the quicktime gamma problem. It was unclear (to me) whether that was just in the new laptops, or a software upgrade generally available. Does anyone know more about this?

A related question (apologies in advance if it's a dumb one): in relation to gamma and quicktimes, for clips destined for the web, should I adjust the gamma so that the QTs appear "as I want the contrast/image to be", given QTs are what people will be viewing the clips as? In other words, I don't need to be concerned about the gamma shift, use the QT file as the master?

Cheers

 

[Kaku Ito]

I've seen H.264 works differently in gamma, but although QT gets fixed, the apps like FCP and Color have to get rewritten to handle the certain gamma.

The basic gamma being 2.2 will be adopted with Snow Leopard and QT X.

 

[James Press]

Domo Kaku.

 

[JosephArthur]

Quicktime X will be released and those questions will be answered. Snowleopard does answer this if you have the Developers Version coming soon enough. Unless you want to wait for September and you can plug out the $129 for the new version of Snow Leopard. However pre-exsting Leopard users can get this individually at $29. -- or as a family $49 if you have a family pack of 5 (more or less)

 

[MikeHedge]

http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2008/06/fix-quicktime-gamma-shift/

this is what I do to fix my quicktimes

 

[James Press]

Cheers Jo and Mike.

Following up your suggestion Mike, I've just discovered this article from PVC (Mike-- you might find the comments regarding the work-around you use of interest): http://provideocoalition.com/index....ghtness_issues_with_h264_quicktime_movies/P0/

In short, x264 is recommended (available at http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20273/x264-quicktime-codec and http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html).