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AE to quicktime color difference
I have an adjustment layer in my comp that has a ‘levels’ effect which is nicely punching up my blacks and whites in some photos to try to emulate the style the shows’s video footage was shot in.
It looks very contrasty and good in AE. My client also made comment that they like this extra contrast (I have not seen the animations on their system).
But when I just play the rendered quicktimes in Quicktime 7, they do not look particularly contrasty at all. What is the discrepancy between viewing in AE and in Quicktime?
Am I safe in assuming my clients are seeing the desired effect in their Avid system that I am viewing in my AE application?Does the fact I’ve rendered these low res animations in the Mpeg4 codec have anything to do with this?
Thanks!
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Yes, they are low-res on purpose. They are just some rough moves for the offline editor to cut in for an assembly cut. I am ftp-ing them, so I wanted small file sizes.
Would the difference be due to color settings?
I just realized that I’ve upgraded all my Adobe apps but haven’t set any color preferences.
My monitor is defaulted to “hp L2335” because that is the type of monitor it is. The other monitor’s default is “Apple Studio Display Calibrated.” (I do realize these should probably match)Photoshop CS2 defaults to sRGB IEC61966-2.1.
Should I set my monitors, photoshop and after effect’s project settings to “Apple RGB?” The description sounds the most correct of the other color preset options.
Or should I set them all to sRGB IEC61966-2.1 since that mimics what most PC computers look like? I have a Mac, but that sounds to me that it would make my mac colors look similar to whatever someone on a PC was seeing.I mostly work with RGB files since my stuff generally is for video, not web or print.
Sorry. Color is not my thing really. And as a stay-at-home mom who also works from home, my time for troubleshooting and researching is quite limited! frustrating
Thanks, again.
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