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AE -> FCP chroma bug
Im looking for information regarding the chroma shift bug that occurs when transferring media between FCP and AE. I read about it a while ago, having dealt with it myself, and am curious about the status of it given the increasing demand for this software combination.
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Isn’t more a question of attempting to move between slightly different color spaces than a “bug”? We are almost exclusively DV at my shop and do not experience this issue with FCP6+ and CS3.
bogiesan
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Well, when i had encountered this i was working with PRORES HQ telecined film (.qt), however to work around it i had to import my files into premiere and abandon FCP. I attempted animation and uncompressed 8bit codecs but two days of attempting workarounds and various codecs/settings/software combinations didnt help.
Not sure what the cause of the problem was, but it appeared footage manipulated in AE CS3 was no longer compatible in FCP 6.
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To answer your question, the chroma or gamma shift that used to occur is fixed. I did extreme testing on this, using scopes in both After effects (plugins) and fcp and there was a real gamma shift of a value of .2. This was fixed in CS3 or some iteration of CS3 and FCP6. Its been a while so I don’t really remember whose end this was on, but as long as your project is generated in CS3 or CS4 I think you should be fine. If you take an old project and open it in CS3 or CS4, you may still have the problem.
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Thanks, glad to know it was fixed. FCP is still a terrible NLE, but i guess since i would only be working on someones elses project with it then i dont have anything to worry about when FCP trashes the project or breaks.
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