Rec 709 to XYZ – After Effects vs OpenDCP vs Resolve Lite

[Angelo Lorenzo]

I’m curious myself. The CIE X’Y’Z’ conversion matrix is well known, and then you add some tweaks for the reference white and 2.6k gamma and the conversion should be near the same. There may be some ever so slight differences, and perhaps some quality differences in the algorithm, so it makes me curious as to which produces the “best result”.

https://www.hdforindies.com/2005/04/digital-cinema-summit-day-one-raw is a cute little read.

https://books.google.com/books?id=ra1lcAwgvq4C&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251&dq=709+to+xyz&source=bl&ots=bPi6AAZR9f&sig=_a3YA7CVzTZ4fscmUMuRDl9pAvQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VSQfUO-jNKWIiALI-4HIBg&ved=0CHEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=709%20to%20xyz&f=false so is this

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[Tero Ahlfors]

We usually export straight to a DCP compliant JPEG 2000 sequence from AE. You can get the plug-in here: https://www.fnordware.com/j2k/

[Daniel Raim]

Hi Angelo and Tero – Many thanks for the feedback and suggestions.

I will try the JPEG2000 plug-in and let you know how it goes!