Videosafe – Apple Shake 4 User Manual

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Chapter 6

Importing Video and Anamorphic Film

VideoSafe

Located in the Color tab, this node clips “illegal” video values. As such, it is generally
placed at the end of a composite. You can set the node for NTSC or PAL video, based on
luminance or saturation. There is also an example (in the videoGamma subtree) of a
conditional statement that toggles between 2.8 (NTSC) and 2.2 (PAL). Generally, these
values are not touched.

Parameters

The VideoSafe node displays the following controls in the Parameters tab:

videoType
Toggles between NTSC and PAL.

0 = NTSC

1 = PAL

processingType
Determines whether the VideoSafe node affects the luminance or chrominance
(saturation) of the image.

0 = luminance-based calculation

1 = saturation-based calculation

chromaRange
The pseudo-percentage of the clip, as specified by the actual video hardware.

compositeRange
The pseudo-percentage of the clip, as specified by the actual video hardware.

videoGamma
The gamma basis, based upon the videoType. NTSC uses a gamma value of 2.2 and PAL
uses a gamma value of 2.8. This parameter defaults to the following expression, which
links it to the videoType parameter:

videoType ? 2.8 : 2.2

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