FCP Tip #3
You need to make sure your added text is and video levels are broadcast legal.
White must be 90%, not 100%.

Many tapes submitted for broadcast have been rejected due to levels not complying with correct standards. There’s a limited range of “legal” brightness and colors for NTSC (and PAL) when being broadcast. Video cameras, particularly DV cameras, can record levels beyond what is considered broadcast legal. This is easy to see on a waveform monitor/vectorscope.

In Final Cut Pro, the simplest solution is to apply the Broadcast Safe filter to the clip or to an entire nested sequence. You can also correct illegal levels with either the Color Corrector instead of the Broadcast Safe but Broadcast Safe at the default settings is the simplest. Broadcast Safe, leaves the images untouched, except for the corrections required. You can show illegal levels by activating Range Check>Excess Luma from the View menu. Red stripes indicate illegal Levels and green stripes indicate Broadcast Safe levels.

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