color difference when i render to .mv2

[Mylenium]

Your’colors are out of range i.e. not broadcast save? MPEG-2 (DVD) expects certain levels, otherwise the algorithm will go boom and screw your colors.

Mylenium

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[Frank Van mourik]

oke thnx i hope that is it!!!! you’re a life saver!

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Here’s a trick I’ve used successfully in controling safe colors, which may help here…

For every piece of footage you bring in apply the Levels effect and set the following:

In Black: 16
In White: 235

On another adjustment layer on top of your final comp use the same effect with the following settings:

Out Black: 16
Out White: 235

Now I suspect that you could just make one final layer with 1 levels effect with all 4 settings, but I am not sure about the order of theeffect properties, so I don’t know if it’s a good idea.

The point of using this is to get rid of hot colors – you will see a difference on the computer screen- things get a bit duller, but you will barely see a difference on the TV, and the untrained eye will not notice a thing.

Plus in your case, where the algorythm is dealing with too many hot colors, this may correct for your problem.

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[Frank Van mourik]

tnx looks like that wil do the trick but i’m working in AE 6.5 and that uses procentage and no absolute values! do you have the setting for that?

thanks a lot allready!

frank

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

That is being caused by your info palette color settings. Go to the info palette, and click on the little black arrow (Points to the right)- all the way to the upper right corner.

You’ll get a pulldown with color display options.

Change the color setting from “Percent” to “Auto Color Display” – Now your colors will all be represented as units of RGB vs % of RGB.

I switched back and forth between the 2 and it looks like

16 = 6.2744%
235 = 92.157%

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[Frank Van mourik]

thnx i did what you said but everything still comes out quite ‘red’. i don’t understand it!

[Frank Van mourik]

is the MAGIC BULLET SUITE plugin from red giant a solution you think?

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

I get that a lot with quicktime with sorenson compression. You can try using the same effect (Levels) and adjust the levels on the red channel to desaturate it.

Also, you can try using the Color Balance Effect to lower the red on 3 seperate levels.

Finally, it bares mentioning that if you atre going to DVD, the codecs used to go to DVD look really cruddy on a computer monitor, but a lot better on a TV screen.

If you are going to DVD, why not try playing this on a DVD player and seeing if it looks better.

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particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
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[Frank Van mourik]

That realy makes a lot of difference! I used a tv screen and it stil wassend perfect but it was a lot better than viewing on my moniter!
think i’m also going to try the magic bullet suite plugin and see what that does! But still thank for all your help!

bye Frank