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CCR colors off .. Normal ?!


RaceMedic

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So I just got my CCRs ( they had been shipped to a friends house south of the border ).

Plugged them in, set them up properly and every looked and worked GREAT !

Ran one of my songs where I had entered specific RGB values in for the olympic ring colors.

The colors look way off on the CCR strip itself.

Is this normal / common ?!

Thanks,

Dave

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I believe it is. Per the video tutorial on them, the superstar software takes care of this issue when you program them, then ship them over to the sequencer so you can actually see them run. So far, I've not found a way for Superstar to run them directly but yes, the colors in superstar are correct but don't "appear" to be the same in the sequencer cells...but they will appear to be correct when they run.

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Let me clarify ....

I had a picture of the Olympic rings ... took them into my photo editing program to obtain the RGB values of the rings.

I entered those rings into the LOR software but when they are shown on the CCRs the colors are no where near what

I was looking for.

Dave

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I believe it is because RGB values are device dependent. See this excerpt from wikipedia:

RGB is a device-dependent color model: different devices detect or reproduce a given RGB value differently, since the color elements (such as phosphors or dyes) and their response to the individual R, G, and B levels vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, or even in the same device over time. Thus an RGB value does not define the same color across devices without some kind of color management.

HERE is a link to the full article.

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The reason for this is photo editing software works in the opposite way of LEDs. Here is an example. With a led if you use 100% r,g,& b you get white. Since photo software is meant to print 100% r,g,&b will give you black. Some photo programs can give you the effective web color r,g,b values, but they are a far cry from what led strips will show.

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