Posts tagged Vimeo

Video
Posted 4 months ago

I don’t know how to explain why this faux trailer about practicing making a film is funny. It just is.

(Source: vimeo.com)

Photo 52
Notes
Posted 10 months ago
Watch your levels on the web! Evidence that you really need to watch your levels on the web. In the past I didn’t think it was necessary. 100 IRE is just for TV, I thought. Wrong. Vimeo, for one, clamps the signal in a less than friendly manner, pushing the entire image down into darkness. In contrast - sorry I don’t have a picture for this - you can throw a broadcast-safe filter on the video which will compress the levels with no perceptible change in the image. And Vimeo’s compression will produce an image that matches Quicktime. I’m not sure if it’s FCPX or Lion, but it seems there is no longer any kind of gamma shift anywhere through the process of compressing an Mp4 file or compressing on Vimeo :-) Zoom

Watch your levels on the web!

Evidence that you really need to watch your levels on the web. In the past I didn’t think it was necessary. 100 IRE is just for TV, I thought.

Wrong. Vimeo, for one, clamps the signal in a less than friendly manner, pushing the entire image down into darkness.

In contrast - sorry I don’t have a picture for this - you can throw a broadcast-safe filter on the video which will compress the levels with no perceptible change in the image. And Vimeo’s compression will produce an image that matches Quicktime.

I’m not sure if it’s FCPX or Lion, but it seems there is no longer any kind of gamma shift anywhere through the process of compressing an Mp4 file or compressing on Vimeo :-)