[FCP-L] Differing video levels on camera monitor and captured video

I received a couple of tapes last week from a shooter of a host in front of
a bank of television monitors. This was standard def, shot on miniDV.
Although tape playback looked beautiful on the camera LCD, the video, when
captured, of the skin tones where very low. So low, in fact, that when
raising the gamma and chroma, the face lost most of its detail.

I realize that data is data and that the video looked the same no matter
what camera it was played back on. Could it be that the television monitors
in the background were so bright that the ratio of the image was correct but
the camera LCD displays a wider range?

Thanks,
Kerry

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Kerry Soloway
http://www.NightingaleEditorial.com
201-247-4110
ksoloway@gmail.com

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