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AVID to AE color profile change (faded colors)
Hey all-
I keep running into a problem at work where Quicktimes exported from various Avids will appear desaturated/have reduced contrast when imported into AE.
The quicktimes are exported from avid as RGB (not 601), uncompressed Avid Meridian codec.
The OSX systems running AE have up to date codecs.
When these Avid exports are viewed through a histogram/spectrograph, the whole footage seems “crunched,” and the white and black inputs need to be pulled/manipulated.
Any ideas why this is happening?
I’m thinking it might be a color space or gamma issue, and not a codec problem…
thanks,
rich
ps:
other peeps having the same problems?https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/896768#896768
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Same problem here. We’ve even done multimachine renders on multiple identical pc’s, and one frame would come out lighter than another.
Haven’t found the solution, but i was suggested to check color profiles. That didn’t help in CS2 and i haven’t gotten around to testing it under CS3.However, It only seems to happen when movies exported from of the avid are used in the comp.
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This problem arises when a file is exported from Avid using the “601” setting instead of the “RGB” setting. You can fix this in After Effects by applying the Levels filter with “Input Black” set to 16 and “Input White” set to 235.
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Hi Dave,
the weird thing is: we always export same-as-source/RGB out of the Avid.
And i would think that the renders form different PC’s would be identical – all wrong or all right.
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