What is the recommended NTSC colormap for film recording?
Q: I’ve been trying to get a color scheme that looks good for NTSC, but haven’t hit on one as of yet. Is there a colormap that looks good and has values of saturation and brightness give good results? A: • Stay away from highly saturated colors – red especially. That’s why at the last Democratic National Convention, the stage was done up in salmon, ivory, and powder blue (as opposed to RED, WHITE, and BLUE) – they were conscious of the way it would look “Televised”. Red, particularly, is to be avoided. • Stay away from repetitive vertical patterns. The way NTSC encodes signals is across a scan line and it only has so many “bits” of change that it can do within a single scan line. After that storage is used up, things start to fuzz out. That’s why you never see newscasters (or backgrounds, etc.) wear vertical stripes. • Stay away from brightly colored backgrounds. Bright foregrounds on dark (black, blue, etc.) work more effectively in terms of having the foreground differentiated from t
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