Cinematography-Theory-And-Practice

Figure 9.30. (top) A gradient grayscaleon the waveform monitor andblack gamma (left-hand part of thecurve representing the shadowareas) at normal.Figure 9.31. (center) Black gammaat minus 99 at 35%. This means thatthe dark areas that are at 35% brightnessand below are made darker. Onthe camera in this illustration, blackgamma is selectable from 0 to minus99 and at 50% (everything frommiddle gray down), 35%, 25%, and15%.Figure 9.32. (bottom) Black gammaat minus 50 at 15%; only the verydarkest areas of the frame areaffected.data reasonably well; however there is definitely a price to be paid inpicture quality, as is true of all heavy compression schemes. Anotherproblem is that it can be difficult for editing systems to deal withH.264. For this reason, the footage is usually transcoded to anothercodec before being ingested into the non-linear editing application.Plug-ins for various editing applications are usually available fromthe camera manufacturers, as is free-standing conversion softwarefor most codecs.HD cinematography175