Nuke Change screen colors??

[T.P.]

ok , i may be or dumb or blind or have bugs in nuke , i dont know but i am working on an green screen footage shot in hdv , and ive noticed something very strange ,ive been testing all kinds of codecs and file formats to bring to nuke , coz it doesnt read m2t files , and when i look at the video , in windows media player or whatever it seems more saturated and the colors is a little more intense , BUT than when i load nuke the footage looks much less saturated and the colors are brighter , now i thought to myself maybe this is the color mode in nuke , so i played with it a little , like linear srgb , cineon and so on ... but its not that nothing appears to bring it back
so than i opened windows media player again WHEN NUKE IS STILL OPEN and to my amazement the footage seems brighter even on mediplayer so my question is , what is this does nuke changes the general screendisplay when it loads ? is this possible , or am i missing something here ? plz guys help

[Hugh]

This is almost certainly actually WMP changing the colours. I'd be pretty confident that Nuke loads in the raw data as-is, while WMP will probably do something to make it look "nicer"

[digitallysane]

Many players (especially software DVD players) have various filters to make the image more saturated, deinterlace on the fly and more. Generally "consumer" media players shouldn't be trusted at all when judging color.


Dragos

[sl0throp]

I usually split any Video into sequential files and work with that as well


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[T.P.]

well , thanku guys for the respond , i know i shouldnt trust WMP or anyother player over nuke , but it just seem verystrange to me that when nuke loads it changes all the windows settings so that it affects even WMP when showing the video , so i just want to ask if its just in mine ? or you guys see the same affect ?

[Gentle Fury]

always use Image sequences! I like TGA cuz they're small and uncompressed and can be up to 32 bit. If you are working on a 3D comp exr is the way to go.

[Hugh]

General industry standard is 10-bit DPX (or Cineon) for log images, 16-bit float EXRs for Linear (CG or converted plates) and Tiffs for other stuff (matte paintings, stills)

[Gentle Fury]

General industry standard is 10-bit DPX (or Cineon) for log images, 16-bit float EXRs for Linear (CG or converted plates) and Tiffs for other stuff (matte paintings, stills)

umm, ok, well i work on commercial projects and i always use TGA
to each his own

[Hugh]

That wasn't at all meant as a criticism of how you were working.... Just what I've come across in the film pipelines everywhere I've worked...

[Gentle Fury]

no thats cool, I just know there a LOT of people that are all about tiffs, they are just too heavy for me. I've never gotten to use Log colorspace or cineon files since anytime we shoot film its always transfered to NTSC....so the only time I even get to work with high res footage is off of digital HD and even that has issues! I love that Nuke fully supports exr tho....very nice for 3D workflow.

I've also never worked anywhere that had enough people in it to have people above me mandating a pipeline.....so I end up being that guy...and tgas have always been kind to me It is nice that you can use ZIP compression on TIFFs now tho.

I was personally a big fan of YUV format tho.....works great for video and every frame is always the exact same size. No alpha tho.