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  • Need an AE/FCP color space expert

    Posted by Brian Kintz on August 30, 2008 at 3:14 pm

    I’m pulling a bluescreen with material shot on 35mm in AE, the shot & composite has a large degree of dark areas that need to be retained. Final edits will be done in AVID DS (not by me). Here’s the prob…when I key and composite in AE…great, love it, wonderful. When I bring the composited clip into Final Cut to QC the composite, my black levels are being lifted slightly…ie: a little more detail in the darkest areas is showing up. I have tried finding a color profile in AE that closely matches what I’m seeing in FCP, but still no winner….anyone have ideas, I unfortunately don’t have a lot of time for experimenting here, so a solid answer would be great!…oh BTW, this is all 1920×1080 HD, so there is is no full-res/realtime preview for me in AE, hence the QC in FCP.

    Thanks for anyone’s help…look forward to a solution!

    Brian Kintz
    Art Director
    Starz Entertainment
    720.852.3283

    Brian Kintz replied 18 years ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Scott Roberts

    August 30, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._709

    What are your render settings out of AE?

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  • Brian Kintz

    August 31, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    Hey Scott,
    Thanks for the reply…render setting in AE are
    1920×180 Full Res HD,
    NONE on the compression (no codec)
    I’m not doing any color management from AE, basically just letting AE do a pass through render

    ideas?

    Brian Kintz
    Art Director
    Starz Entertainment
    720.852.3283

  • Chris Wright

    September 1, 2008 at 9:35 pm
  • Brian Kintz

    September 1, 2008 at 11:14 pm

    Thanks Chris,
    that was so painful to read & it still looked like no one found a solution….I’m not even using the DVCPRO-HD codec that these cats were….I’m completely uncompressed HD…using a NONE codec & still having this problem.

    too bad Adobe & Apple can’t get this one right…Guess I’ll see how the footage looks in AVID DS, where it gets a final edit.

    Thanks 4 your help!

    Brian Kintz
    Art Director
    Starz Entertainment
    720.852.3283

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