What can I expect from the colorimetry of the HD system?
HD has a rich, saturated color palette, and discriminates subtle color differences better than regular video. While carefully staged and exposed scenes do not necessarily require color correction, HD does have lots of “headroom” to allow fine tuning and refinement of color, gamma and other pictorial attributes. There are several preset color matrices available and the color matrix can also be configured for particular projects. The Snell & Wilcox switcher in the HD VISION edit suite has substantial color correction capability as does the AVID DS HD. For critical color correction the Pogle in Video Post and Transfer’s Spirit room is an excellent choice.
