On Jul 3, 2009, at 3:00 PM, avid_curren wrote:
> We're not asking for the video to be legalized, we are asking for
> the Boris filter to be legal. In other words, you take a normal
> picture with legal levels, now you add a glow to a part of it. The
> glow goes to 255 making it screamingly illegal. Now you have two
> choices:
>
> 1: Bring the entire picture down to make the glow legal but making
> the rest of your picture
> less than ideal.
>
> 2: Hard clip at 235 (Which is what the filters safe color does)
> Which doesn't affect the rest
> of your picture but makes the subtler elements of the glow
> become crushed.
>
> Neither of these approaches is ideal. The best would be to have
> the plugins work in a world where white is 235 not 255. Then their
> math would be correct for the end result. My guess is this would
> take too much coding effort, so they just go with the full 255 and
> clamp it if you ask them to.

I agree that it isn't ideal (the hard clip etc. and how it can affect
the appearance of effects) - and I can talk to Boris and the
engineering team here about how it might be improved. But for the very
near future I'm considering changing the default to have the clipping
enabled since it sounds like that would be preferable.

Dirk
BorisFX


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