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Colour Fading – PNG sequence (flash) to After Effects
Hello!
I wonder if anyone could shed on what happened in my last animation project.
I selected beautiful colours in flash and in my AE project they were desaturated.
By the time they appeared on the TV screen, it also was very “flashy” – it’s hard to explain – the colours were pale but it seemed as though they were far too bright.Currently working on a new project with Flash 8 and After Effects CS3 and want to avoid the same problem or at least investigate it.
Process in last project:
Created animation in flash 8 on a PC (windows xp service pack 2)
Exported as png sequence
Imported PNG sequence to After effects (5 or 7 – i can’t remember which version it was at the time)
Shocked by very dull appearance of PNGs in After effects
Experimentally adjusted luminance level/broadcast something or other to try and make it more saturated.
Exported as quicktime
Authored DVD in DVD studio proI suspect the following – but would be grateful for your opinion.
Settings in flash for exporting PNGs – e.g.
24 bit with alpha
filter: none
smooth
???????Do i need to temporarily change my screen settings when editing my project and is this advisable?
e.g. would i risk mess up the appearance of a large body of existing design work?Is this a known issue when importing pngs to After effects?
Is this a graphics card issue?
Would upgrading to Flash CS3 help at all?
Many thanks..
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2 Replies
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Have you tried exporting as a .psd or .tif sequence? I don’t use .png very often so I’m not sure what sort of color profile issues it might have.
Joey Foreman
Editor/Animator
Nowhere Productions, Athens, GA -
thanks for this suggestion.
i think it happened when i exported it as a quicktime movie.
at the moment i’m trying to focus on production but will try a test export as a tiff and see what happens.have you ever experienced a thing where you pull in a movie/sequence to AE and find it is way too bright/desaturated?
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