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Article #1236Why is toaster Black Gray?
From: David Kasper
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 00:18
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 00:18
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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?
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