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Roundtrip Photoshop to AE to QT to Photoshop
(Note: I have also posted this in Photoshop forum…they relate to each other.)
I am trying to match my After Effects Quicktime (uncompressed) renders with my original Photoshop artwork (used to create the AE artwork). If I paste a frame of the Quicktime image over my original image in Photoshop, the image comes in too dark.
I am working between AE, Photoshop, and Illustrator. All CS5, and all using color management.
I have used Bridge to set all the applications to have the same color profile settings:
‘North America General Purpose 2’This means that I am using sRGB 2.1as the working profile.
To arrive at the problem do this:
Import a test document into AE and render out a Quicktime movie as uncompressed.
Open the same test document in Photoshop
Open the Quicktime movie, copy a frame.
Paste the frame into a new layer of the Photoshop document.
The result is a darker frame from the Quicktime file.If I choose to say ‘new’ in Photoshop and then paste the copied file from Quicktime, then the two images match.
Researching this a little further, I found that if with the menu item ‘File:Color Settings’ you check the box ‘Ask When Pasting’ (under ‘Profile Mismatches’), a dialog box will pop up when you do the paste.
At that point I see that the Quicktime frames color profile is ‘Generic RGB’ and that I have a choice to convert or not. The conversion is what is needed. I guess that if the box is not checked, then the file is left as is.I thought that After Effects would have rendered the Quicktime with the sRGB profile (since it is using color management), but that does not seem to be the case. (if I render as a tiff sequence it works fine).
So….can anyone shed any light on all this?
Turns out that this works fine in CS4 for some reason.
Thanks,
Russ
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