5.2.4 Soft clip Configuration File
Colors outside the recorder gamut cannot be recorded without changes, since they do not exist on film. By default, these colors are hard clipped into the recorder gamut. To smoothly clip these colors, a compression of the monitor gamut has to be done. The strength of the compression can be controlled by the parameters given in the soft clip configuration file. This chapter explains the syntax and use of this file.
Location of soft clip configuration file
The fully qualified path and filename of the soft clip configuration file has to be specified in the environment variable ALIP_SOFTCLIP_FILE (set under ‘c:\cshell\ login.csh‘), and consistently in the ALGUI startup file ‘Arri.txt‘. The default location is
‘c:\al\ipconfig\icc\alsoftclip.cfg‘.
Syntax of soft clip configuration file
The syntax of the soft clip configuration file follows the general syntax of ARRILASER configuration files, as for example the film format file.
################################################
#ARRI Film & TV#
################################################
#example of an entry using the same settings
#for all colors
softclip: all_the_same dL: 25%
dC: 25%
#example of color specific entry softclip: different
dL: 25%
dC: 25% dC.R 10% dL.M 10%
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