From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Terms and Technology

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Maintaining broadcast-safe color

Maintaining broadcast-safe color

From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Terms and Technology

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Maintaining broadcast-safe color

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- The concept of broadcast-safe color can be a bit tricky. And, depending upon your workflow, it can cause a lot of different issues as you design. Essentially, what happens is it's possible to use colors that are out of gamut. For example, if you are working with a photograph in Adobe RGB, it's possible that some of the colors are too saturated for use in a video project. This can lead to clipping, or loss of color data, or blooming where the colors appear to pulse or glow. Now, this issue can be seen in many different ways as you look at the signal. What's important to note is that different types of video have different requirements. Let's go ahead and open up some images here. Here we have some pretty rich, vibrant colors. And I'm going to let you actually see this in the video signal. I'm going to go to my color profiles here and change what you're seeing. For example, Rec 2020. And you see that there's a color shift. ProPhoto RGB, the black point and the colors appear to shift…

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