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In article <4cci14$s59@castle.nando.net>, David Kasper <project@nando.net>
wrote:

> 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?

Unfortunately you are stuck.  Somepeople have resorted to grabbing a frame
of superblack from another source and keep it as a framestore or as an
rgb.  There is no way to correct the toaster's output, it's just an
inherent shortcoming in the design.
Lisa
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