| I usually don't adjust anything. Pictures I digitize usually have
too much red and blue on the RGB monitor but look fine when output
to a TV/VCR. In other words, in almost all cases, doing nothing
to the color palette makes the best NTSC picture, even though it
doesn't always look quite right on the Amiga monitor. Of course,
this assumes that your are using correct lighting (florescent lights
if you are using the Digiview filter which is thin cellophane, or
regular bulbs if you have the older thick plastic filter).
Of course, if you still aren't satisfied with the colors, hook up
a composite monitor while digitizing and you can see exactly what
colors you are getting.
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| An expert in a magazine article said
the colors are too saturated on the Amiga. He said avoid colors
with component values over 13 (don't use 14 and 15). NTSC (national
television standards intitute, or never-the-same-color) is not very
tolerant of the Amiga chrominance output. The white is not necessarily
very good either.
Anyway, adjust your RGB monitor for color against a picture of pure
red, (R=15,G=0,B=0)
green, (0,15,0)
blue, (0,0,15)
cyan, (0,15,15)
yellow, (15,15,0)
and magenta 15,0,15
white (15,15,15)
and black (0,0,0)
Black should be black, you know, no light coming from that part of
screen.
I set my monitor for about half full brightness and color just below
bleeding into other pixels.
Color bars made on an amiga don't come very close to NTSC color bars,
even on a good genlock. But you can avoid distortions
When I transfered some Director-controlled stuff at a big local cable
station, the bars were wrong on the vector scope but the engineer knew
how to adjust it because the bars showed where I was trying to go.
It came off OK. Of course, HAM rendering programs may not allow you to
avoid particular colors, they choose the colors they want to.
Wish I hada vector scope.
Tom
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