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#NTSC color bars

    16-May-95 18:46:32
Sb: #NTSC color bars
Fm: Paul Sanford [LVL5] 75144,2354
To: John Ellis 72440,3046
John and all, I'm trying to lay off some color bars to my PAR as a point of reference for some local video dudes. A while back I just copied your NTSCBARS.TGA to the PAR, and apparently it scoped just a bit off on one or more of the colors. I'm really not sure what the readings were, but they were pretty good. They still suggested I generate my own. Anyway, I decided to try to render my own .TGA to the PAR based on your NTSCCB.PRJ file. I noticed that the color values were kind of varied in regards to luminance, some were at about 30, some were at about 60, etc. Shouldn't I be putting out fully saturated colors, set at luminance=128? Or should I be toning down the saturation to about 210, as that's what I usually max my materials out at for video? Or should I just render your .prj file, knowing it should be right? Thanks for the library file! 🙂 Paul S.