Dark Magic

LED panels are often run at a lower brightness than their maximum capability, e.g. for indoor and 'on-camera' applications. This results in an unavoidable reduction in effective bit depth, which can lead to visible artefacts such as banding and loss of detail, especially in dark areas of the image.

Enabling Dark Magic will increase the visual quality of the output when operating at low brightness. A small amount of noise may become visible at short viewing distances, therefore in some circumstances when the fixtures are close to the viewer, it may be preferable to uncheck the Dark Magic checkbox.

The greatest improvements can be seen when running very high brightness panels at a much lower brightness, adjusted via the Brightness control.

Dark Magic is available for all Tessera fixtures that use the R2 or R2+ receiver cards.