I'm color grading HD footage in Apple Color and it looks great. Then I render it out to my Final Cut timeline and there is a perceptible loss of quality, particularly where the image fades into shadows. Instead of a gradual fade, there is a series of progressively darker fields. Even if I output uncompressed from Color and set my timeline for uncompressed there is a loss of quality. I can toggle back and forth between Final Cut and Color on the same frame and clearly see the drop.
Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?
Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?
