I can see where you're coming from on the cheesecake, Craig. Did you try reducing Luminance instead of Colors? Here's a recent example of mine set to Luminance and 100.
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Thanx for posting up your samples Jim. What did the scopes show you?
I just showed you my samples in Color. (I get a similar ugly issue in Luminance.)
I also deliberately went to less than 100%. so you can see in the scopes that it is not even gone far enough to actually legalise either Chroma Luminance or Luminance. ( I am sure you are aware that they are similar but actually 2 different things). Both of which must be legalalised for BC.
@Steven
"The dynamic range of the camera needs to be "squeezed" into this IRE range at post production time so it displays correctly."
Your explanation of the rule is accurate. I get that. But it is accurate for broadcast video. I am not interested, at this point in time, about broadcast video. I am interested in web video.
Same fundamental rule applies to any video. (Broadcast or otherwise). Its photography and the way the levels are presented photographically.
The "world" as lit by the "god of light"... is High Dynamic range...the camera has less..and Digital Video has even less.
You can have as much white detail-less info in your video as you want...but you dont need to go over 100% to achieve it. A digital still is the same.