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Why is toaster Black Gray?

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From: David Kasper
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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From: David Kasper <project@nando.net>
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Date: 3 Jan 1996 00:18:44 GMT
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