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Color Management between computers on AE CS3
I have a XDCAM HD project that I edited in FCP then used Auto Duck to import it into After Effects CS3 for color correction. I worked on it a bunch at a system where I freelance and I wanted to continue on my home system. In order to do this I enabled Color Management, picked a workspace that suited the project and set the project to 32 bit. The work system was a MacPro and my home system is a Dual G5… but all the other relavent software was the same.
When I brought the project to my system, the composition looked significantly darker so much so so that it is unreliable for me to work on. I rendered some quicktimes on the original system that I did most of the color work and when I import them into AE on my home system they look fine. The color in the composition doesn’t look anything like them as they seem much darker than the quicktime. How do I get these color settings to match so I can continue?
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“When I brought the project to my system, the composition looked significantly darker so much so so that it is unreliable for me to work on.”
Luckily you did tests yourself, so you know from the get-go, that settings on your computer do not match. Each file has an interpret color management plus AE has blend color, legacy colors, etc. all these plus you need the exact same codec versions, gamma calibrated monitor…
plus how you are viewing them back out. Quicktime player preferences could be different too. Use your scopes rather. Do a full render-loop, export/import file, with no color changes, there should be no change in gamma. That way tests for a correct color management setup.
Once you have that nailed down, procede, with care, comparing each new cut to the other computer. Some people test with PNG’s because they have in-file writable gamma protection.
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