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Color space issue, AE to FCP
Greetings.
Got a bit of a color space problem on my hands, and I don’t know exactly how to approach it.
I’ve rendered a Quicktime clip from After Effects, and given it to the editor, after adding some particle effects to the source clip. My clip looks darker than the original in FCP; this especially applies to midtones. I compared the two clips by opening them simultaneously in Quicktime player — same issue.
In AE, however, both clips look identical (except for the particles I’ve added, of course.) So, I think that my color settings are off. The project is HDTV 1080, 24P. I tried switching my Project Color Settings to NONE, as well as HDTV 709; tried switching “Match Legacy AE Quicktime Gamma Adjustments” to none… to no avail.
Would anyone happen to know what color space I should be using (assuming my problem really is with color space)?
Thanks!
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3 Replies
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if you are using prorez, dvc pro HD then you will get color shift. If you use Animation then it will work. There’s a large thread here.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/919924
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I’m not using ProRes or Animation; the file is Uncompressed YUV 8-bit 4:2:2.
I want to change the Embedded Profile to “HDTV Rec 709 YCbCr” (which, I think, would be the correct setting for this type of file), but I don’t have that option in the Interpret Footage window or in Project Settings. Whereas choosing simply “HDTV 709” doesn’t work either — I tried, and the clips still don’t match. -
Have you tried AJA v210 codec? This resolves round trip YUV/RGB/YUV conversion from Final Cut to AE and back. Different companies flag files in different ways so sometimes the round trip isn’t accurate. Even Apple hasn’t figured this out with its own products like Motion but the AJA engineers figured out a workaround codec which is based on 10 bit uncompressed.
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