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JPOwens wrote:HD Rec709 is scaled 0-100% from values 64-940. Think about what your image would look like if you are viewing one display scaling being interpreted (incorrectly) as the other. If you assigned "black" to be "0", but it is being displayed as "64"... it will appear to be "washed out", or conversely, if "64" is being pushed down to "0", then clipped and/or too contrasty. This also affects the apparent saturation.
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The exact question is not about this. It's the same monitor, with different outputs from Resolve, showing different results.
We understand this Rec 709 and the 0-100% from values 64-940, etc. The question was not about this.
Let's look at it from a "mathematical" point of view. I use this "mathematical" word because many people I find in this forum are very fond of this word.
Forget about the existing standards. Let's say, you have a new colour standard in your monitor which is not Rec 709, sRGB, or SMPTE. You have a new monitor, which does not comply to any of them. But assume, whatever standard is there in your monitor is the new standard. Let's call that "JPOwens" standard. Or call that standard "x", as would be more prudent in algebra (mathematics).
Now look at the colour you see in your Resolve after your final grade. Output in Prores 422 and run the clip in QTplayer. The colours are different.
That was the problem which was being discussed here. How can the same monitor having "JPOwens" colour standard (or "x" if you prefer algebra/mathematics) give different colours while viewing through different softwares? Can't be the problem of the monitor. Because you have used the same mathematical specs in both. So, who is wrong? Resolve? The Prores codec? Or the QT player interpreting the Prores movie?
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