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Well, I'm jumping back on this thread because I'm afraid something's being missed here. Even though I missed the beginning of this thread, I gather you are very concerned about your gamma-matching indicator number, AND you are using an SVGA display and/or an RGB monitor. If so, besides all that's been said about gamma, if you're going out to tape – you shouldn't even be using the SVGA/RGB monitor combo for evaluation in the first place…..you should be using the framebuffer and an NTSC calibrated monitor. When I'm at the appropriate stage in a project, I'll actually go out of the framebuffer, through the format converter, and through the recorder itself in EE mode to the NTSC monitor. That's the only way I can get an idea of what it's really going to look like on tape. I'll even monitor the composite or Y/C3.58 video, even though it's a component recorder, because that's what the end user is going to see – even though it looks worse. No point in fooling yourself here by monitoring a different or better looking signal than what's going to be on the distibution tape. I may model & animate with SVGA/Multisync, or even start to get close with the rendered images, but then switch over to the NTSC stuff to finalize. Also, where I run my multisync at with an SVGA display, my gamma-matching indicator says 2.46 ! Forget about it. Do the above.