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AE Color Issues (I know, I know…)
I’m posting this in both the AE forums for more attention. I’m running a Mac with CS3 and FCP6.
I’ve had that classic trouble of AE exports seeming darker than I’d expect. The past two days I’ve been reading through virtually every post on the matter. The typical “exported AE footage looks darker than original FCP footage” seemed to be what I was experiencing. So I took everyone’s advice: downloaded the CS3 8.0.2 update, went to Project Settings and checked “Match Legacy…”, and even played around with AE using the color profile of my monitors (calibrated with SypderPro).
My issue, to be specific, is that I have two graphics that come from the same source but don’t match up. I have a vector-based logo “PBW.ai” that I placed into a clean white Photoshop image, then saved it out as a tiff. I then used the same “PBW.ai” file to create an animated logo in After Effects. They looked the same, color-wise until I export it. But then I noticed something.
In the info panel of both AE and PS, the color is different for the same “PBW.ai” file. In PhotoShop, the blue in the logo measures at 0, 122, 195 RGB (respectively). But in AfterEffects, the blue measures at 9, 91, 166 RGB (respectively). The comp in PhotoShop is made from placing the “PBW.ai” file directly into a NTSC Widescreen preset. The comp in After Effects was made from importing the “PBW.ai” file and dragging it over the comp button to create a new comp with the same attributes, etc.
The “PBW.ai” file was created from an EPS file named “PBW_CMYK.eps”. I just saved as an Adobe Illustrator document, and did not embed ICC profiles.
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https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/202/882561#882562
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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