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- From: singh@wwa.com (singh)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Subject: Re: Why is toaster Black Gray?
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 08:03:08 GMT
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- In article <4cci14$s59@castle.nando.net>, David Kasper <project@nando.net>
- wrote:
-
- > Does anyone know why the Toaster's black level would be so far
- > off that it looks grey? On the waveform monitor it registers
- > about 20 IRE instead of normal black which should be 7.5.
- > This happens whenever we select DV3 (with Black selected on
- > the Setup screen). Also, whenever we render an Anim, what is
- > supposed to be black comes out this same level of gray.
- >
- > Curiously, blacks created in the CG do come out perfectly
- > black. In fact, we have resorted to using a black CG page in
- > order to get black out of the Toaster. Individual framestores
- > rendered from Lightwave also don't have this problem -- the
- > blacks are black. But if you try to save an Anim, the blacks
- > turn gray.
- >
- > We don't know of any adjustment anywhere on the Toaster or the
- > Amiga 4000 to correct for this. This problem has continued
- > even after we re-installed the Toaster software and the
- > version 3.1 upgrade.
- >
- > What's going on?
-
- Unfortunately you are stuck. Somepeople have resorted to grabbing a frame
- of superblack from another source and keep it as a framestore or as an
- rgb. There is no way to correct the toaster's output, it's just an
- inherent shortcoming in the design.
- Lisa
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