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imported images and broadcast safe
question:
what’s the advantage of applying broadcast safe white levels to my still images in photoshop if i’m going to import them to after effects, where i will apply a broadcast safe white levels effect to my final comp? in the end, i would be applying broadcast safe white levels adjustments TWICE to my still images.put another way, could i get away with not applying broadcast safe levels adjustments to my stills in photoshop if i’m just going to apply a broadcast safe levels adjustment to my final comp in after effects, anyway?
this probably sounds like a dumb question, but this has always puzzled me.
thanks
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[Ugg The Wanderer] “put another way, could i get away with not applying broadcast safe levels adjustments to my stills in photoshop if i’m just going to apply a broadcast safe levels adjustment to my final comp in after effects, anyway?”
Not only could you get away with it, you shouldn’t do it in the first place! Especially in light of the new color profiles in AE 7, you might end up skewing your colors so much, they all look dull and washed out. Even in the “old” versions of AE you shouldn’t apply any additional adjustments beyond your intentional color corrections simply because of different color spaces (there is a difference between Adobe RGB and simple Screen RGB for instance!!!). The only time I would ever use the workflow you describe is if my system was fully calibrated (so effectively a Levels effect does not change anything if you already have done it in AE), but that’s a very unlikely situation for us video based artists.
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