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color space and importing AE projects
FCP is working in YUV color space…AE works in RGB color space…what is the correct way to import a quicktime made in AE into FCP?
is there anything to select what color space FCP should look at? avid allows you to select RGB or 601/709…FCP do anything similar?
Broadway Video, NYC
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It depends on which codecs you’re working with.
If you’re editing in 10bit 4:2:2, that’s a YUV codec. In fact most normal editing codecs are YUV. The biggest normal exception would be HD 4:4:4 RGB. So if you render to it with AE, AE prepares the comp in RGB but then converts it to YUV to render to the codec.
FCP will automatically adjust whatever you put in the timeline to the native mode: so Animation codec (RGB) into a 10 bit 4:2:2 timeline will be rendered automatically to the YUV space. In my experience, it does a perfectly good job – there’s no noticeable shift in color.]
You might see gamma shifts though. There’s been a long outstanding problem with FCP and incorrect gamma interpretation. But that’s a whole new thread if you come across it.
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Hi Joe,
As Aaron suggest, the best is that you export with the same codec you gonna set in your FC sequence.
In FC you can select rendering in YUV or RGB (Seq Setting> Video processing).
Anyway I don’t see the point of rendering in RGB a YUV sequence unless al the stuff in the time-line is RGB.
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