Change SD 601 color space to 709 for HD?

[Walter Soyka]

Check out Color management and color profiles.

In AE, start a new project. In Project Settings, set the working space to HD (Rec 709). Import your footage, put it in a new comp, then make sure Interpret footage > Color management > profile is set to SDTV. (Avoid NTSC 1953.)

Walter Soyka
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[Ninetto Makavejev]

Thanks for the tip, it almost sounds too easy.

The material delivered to me is (supposedly) uncompressed AVIs in Adobe-RGB space.

So am I right in assuming that setting up the comp as 709 will interpret this material correctly when I export final comp as Blu-ray m2t files?

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Appreciate the thoughts…

This project is for an artist who demanded Blu-ray files to be looped on a Media Player in a gallery.

So, yeah… that’s what the client wants, Blu-ray. He did not specify whether he meant Blu-ray H.264 /mp4 or Blu-ray /m2v… but my experience in the art world is the equipment in these places vary wildly, there is almost never anyone with any technical capabilities, and I figured if the gallery has a lower-end media server, it would have an easier time with the m2v files rather than mp4 format.

I have not experimented extensively with Blu-ray files, would there be any reason at all to prefer the H.264 format?

[Walter Soyka]

[ninetto makavejev] “I have not experimented extensively with Blu-ray files, would there be any reason at all to prefer the H.264 format?”

Yes — it looks about the same as MPEG2 at half the bitrate.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Ninetto Makavejev]

We are getting slightly off the track here, but funny you quote your wise words, Dave… because since I read them at a different post I decided not to compress output from AE… where my initial suspicions were aroused when I saw the render cue does not offer the same presets for Blu-ray as in Premiere.

But now comes the double-whammy case scenario. In Premiere I simple imported the AE-Comp via dynamic link and will compress output via AME from Premiere: I assume this fulfills your advice NOT to compress from AE? I guess AE would just be acting like a frame server pushing uncompressed frames into Premiere via DynLink, right?