Color conversion for AE.

[Floh Peters]

[greggm] ” When I bring in reference files in AE and preview to screen, the video is dark, and when I render and import back to Media100, it looks washed out..”

The easy way is this:
From Media 100 as 8bitUncompressed (original, self-contained, by ref or via the AE Exporter plugin) to AE will give a darker/more contrasty image in AE. Without changing anything and rendering back to 8bit Uncompressed in AE you will get correct colors/Levels in Media 100 again. If you want to see your material correctly in AE you can apply a Adjustment layer on top of the video (remember to turn it off before starting to render; this is only a correction for watching from AE!!!). Add a “Levels” effect to the Adjustment layer, with the output black set to RGB16 and the output white set to RGB235. Set the Gamma to 1.2, and you should be good to work in AE

[Gregg Michaels]

Thanks Floh! That’s a big help.

[Gregg Michaels]

Another question along this line… when you’re exporting for web or dvd, do you use the export video with the video (16-235) option turned on? I’m using compressor 2 to go to dvd.

[Arthur Dent]

If you’re going to compressor, or if you have a mixed codec time line, you should export using this option (16-235)… alternatively, go get bitvice (www.innobits.com), which has an option to handle m100 rgb values properly.

A.D

[Bobby Mosaedi]

you can also turn on your video preview to your monitor in AE and it will output what you will see when you play back your rendered file back in m100.