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Could someone figure out if there's an issue with the conversion from RGB to Rec. 709 color space?
This conversion is done by Arena and not by the Blackmagic Ultrastudio.

Thanks.

On my MBP16 running 10.15.4, the two files look identical in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Madmapper and Mitti but they look different in OSX QuickView/Finder, Arena and Millumin.


Thanks for testing the two files in all these applications. I've done some tests with color bars to analyse ...

To illustrate the issue I ve made a new screen recording.
https://we.tl/t-hdxOKsKgdH

In Arena you see a Quicktime Prores4 422 file of one frame
and
a PNG image (is an export from the Quicktime Prores 422 file).
Look at the color difference in the Output Monitor when I switch between the two ...

Try doing a screenshot of your ProRes movie in Arena using [Snapshot] in the [Output] menu.

My conclusion is that Arena uses another "renderer" to process an output image comparing with my other playback software, Softron On the Air Video.

This application uses the VideoToolbox Framework ...

Both ProRes and Jpeg are lossy formats but they use different subsampling schemes (4:2:2 vs 4:2:0) so you're likely to get different results when you put them side by side. I would recommend trying PNG format for your stills instead of JPEG.

Exactly, I tried a PNG file with the same result. So it ...

So it means the grayed out look of the image is just illustrating the selection of the Slice.
Thanks Boris. Issue 1 solved.

Issue 2:
Color difference of the output image compared to other playback software.
Arena seems to give the jpg a little bit more saturation and contrast.
It makes no ...

Hi,

I've a question about the output of Arena. Using Resolume's Advanced output ,we noticed a difference in color between the input selection tab and the output transformation tab. I've included a screen recording movie with an example.

https://we.tl/t-B0P65OC8ea

We use Arena mainly for the ...