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There are alot of people doing broadcast stuff with 3DS… many of them on this forum. James Hyde and Ken Loss-Cutler just finished a piece for MTV, and Richard Sher and Seth Levinson did the Chip and Peppers Cartoon Madness stuff, and now Lucasfilm's upcoming "Defenders of Dynatron City." etc etc… It's actually not that hard to get NTSC-legal colors. 3DS does NOT bump the diffuse and specular saturation to 100%. If you turn it down, it stays down. Red's should never be about 65%, Blue's should never be about 60-70%, and Green's can be pushed to 75%. A little atmosphere and depth-cueing goes a LONG WAY too. Never use reds next to blues, and try to put GREY'S in between contrasting colors, if possible. And most important… ALWAYS WORK ON AN NTSC MONITOR IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE GOING TO NTSC VIDEO. Worst comes to worse, you can run the video through a ProcAmp (Video Processing Amplifier) and cut the chroma gain down while looking at a Vectorscope. Color corrector's can do this too. – G