• Adobe After Effects

  Mastering for Broadcast in After Effects

  Posted by Rajarshi Basu on April 2, 2007 at 11:02 am

  Hi,

  After reading Stu’s blog, specially Mastering in the NLE

  https://prolost.blogspot.com/2007/02/mastering-in-nle.html, has opened great posibilities of maintaining image quality by utilizing HDR and 32bpc float mode in After Effects.

  By uding Adobe Production Bundle, I can now master in AFX, but I was wondering if I wanna go for broadcast,then should I import the AFX project back in PPro2 and apply a broadcast filter?? Will the image quality degrade?

  OR

  is there a way of applying an adjustment layer on top of my comp and correcting the RGB levels for broadcast???

  Any suggestions ??? This is for a 72min film, shot on Sony Z1p , DVcam…

  Thanks

  Raj

  Robert Houghton replied 19 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Robert Houghton

  April 2, 2007 at 5:22 pm

  RGB can be touchy without putting a universal clamp on things. However i’m guessing if you bring it into Premiere Pro 2, a universal clamp is what you’re looking for. For that I create an adjustment layer and do this to it:

  Levels: Output Black: 16 <> Output White: 235
  Hue-Saturation: Master Saturation: -8

  Of course you can also use color finesse to really make sure trouble colors like reds and blues fall inside the waveform. Sometimes you need to tweak it, especially if you use blending modes.

  -Rob

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  Sam Moulton

  April 2, 2007 at 5:32 pm

  this only is advisable if your codec does not automatically expand and contract rgb space. Watch out for this as a universal solution.
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  Rajarshi Basu

  April 2, 2007 at 7:48 pm

  thanks for the help, but what kind of codecs are you talking about here? The ones that AFX uses ?

  Could you please explain a bit in detail…

  Thanks

  Raj
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  Robert Houghton

  April 2, 2007 at 7:48 pm

  I have had some issues with the “universal crunch” I mentioned above with Avids. There’s always an exception to the rule 😉

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