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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%
Color Management
5.2.4.