Shooting video in xvYCC color format at DVinfo.net

Arkady Bolotin · August 6th, 2010, 06:06 AM

I would like to share my experience of shooting video in xvYCC color format (labeled by Sony as x.v.Colors): here are few short clips I recently recorded with x.v.Colors (my camera is AX2000):

It isn’t that the difference is overwhelming (in comparison with footage shot in the causal YCbCr color space), but it’s there and you can feel it: the colors become more realistic and saturated.

Ainol Haslizan · August 6th, 2010, 07:29 AM

Thanks a lot for sharing the video.

Cristian Adrian Olariu · August 6th, 2010, 09:13 AM

Interesting. Maybe it gives a better range of colors for grading or color correcting... just a thought.

Jay West · August 6th, 2010, 05:29 PM

My experience with xv color is that I've only sees a difference when displaying the footage on a Sony TV that has the XV capability and, so far, the difference has been as described: subtle. Using xv also seems to disable any "picture profiles" presets. (See the FX1000 manual at p. 72 and the NC 5 manual at p. 75). From the manual, I gathered that xv is mainly for highly saturated bright images such as blooming flowers.

Arkady Bolotin · August 7th, 2010, 07:36 AM

Thanks guys for your comments.

Yes, right, theoretically speaking, to watch video recorded in the xvYCC color space you should have an xvYCC-able TV set or PC monitor. However, you can appreciate the difference between standard colors and xv-ones even without this function enabled in your TV.

It’s the same as it is with color and black-and-white video.

When watching footage on the screen of a black-and-white TV, can we notice the difference between video shot with a black-and-white camcorder and video which was shot with a color camcorder but later converted into the black-and-white format?

The answer is yes, we can. As a rule, the black-and-white encoder processing two different colors that have equal brightness will convert them into two different shadows of grey. But with the black-and-white camcorder, those colors would come out indistinguishable.

Analogously, we can see the difference between video shot in standard colors and video shot in xv-colors and then converted into the standard format.

August 6th, 2010, 06:06 AM	#1
Arkady Bolotin Regular Crew Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Beersheba, Israel Posts: 111	Shooting video in xvYCC color format I would like to share my experience of shooting video in xvYCC color format (labeled by Sony as x.v.Colors): here are few short clips I recently recorded with x.v.Colors (my camera is AX2000): Colors of Beersheba Untitled Neveh Ze'ev, Johana Jabotinsky Street It isn’t that the difference is overwhelming (in comparison with footage shot in the causal YCbCr color space), but it’s there and you can feel it: the colors become more realistic and saturated.

August 6th, 2010, 07:29 AM	#2
Ainol Haslizan New Boot Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Malaysia Posts: 13	Thanks Thanks a lot for sharing the video.

August 6th, 2010, 09:13 AM	#3
Cristian Adrian Olariu Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Iasi, Romania Posts: 121	Interesting. Maybe it gives a better range of colors for grading or color correcting... just a thought.

August 6th, 2010, 05:29 PM	#4
Jay West Major Player Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Red Lodge, Montana Posts: 889	My experience with xv color is that I've only sees a difference when displaying the footage on a Sony TV that has the XV capability and, so far, the difference has been as described: subtle. Using xv also seems to disable any "picture profiles" presets. (See the FX1000 manual at p. 72 and the NC 5 manual at p. 75). From the manual, I gathered that xv is mainly for highly saturated bright images such as blooming flowers.

August 7th, 2010, 07:36 AM	#5
Arkady Bolotin Regular Crew Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Beersheba, Israel Posts: 111	Thanks guys for your comments. Yes, right, theoretically speaking, to watch video recorded in the xvYCC color space you should have an xvYCC-able TV set or PC monitor. However, you can appreciate the difference between standard colors and xv-ones even without this function enabled in your TV. It’s the same as it is with color and black-and-white video. When watching footage on the screen of a black-and-white TV, can we notice the difference between video shot with a black-and-white camcorder and video which was shot with a color camcorder but later converted into the black-and-white format? The answer is yes, we can. As a rule, the black-and-white encoder processing two different colors that have equal brightness will convert them into two different shadows of grey. But with the black-and-white camcorder, those colors would come out indistinguishable. Analogously, we can see the difference between video shot in standard colors and video shot in xv-colors and then converted into the standard format.