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strange thing with RED!
I made an animation using black illustrator shapes and set the compositions background to white – it renders off fine and looks clean and sharp.
was asked me to change the background to red – it seems to render fine as well but final cut pro sees it as very pixely, but the uncompressed quicktime animation looks fine.
also if i try in render the red version from after effects at 50% it looks very pixelated – do the same with white (or blue even) and it looks fine… ??!! this has taken me the last full day trying to work it out by tweaking, re-rendering, tweaking re-rendering, etc etc – not knowing what the ****’s going on.
I just think the computer just doesn’t like bright red, nor do I but thats what the client want!
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Compounding all Dave says (you REALLY need a TV monitor of somesort, ideally at least analogue component connected for broadcast gfx wrk) red and black are notoriously hard work together – especialy if you want clean sharp lines, which it sounds like you do. Keep your black at no less than 16 in the RGB scale and try to desaturate you red until it looks good in the TV monitor, plus use your scopes in FCP.
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At the very least, apply the Broadcast Colors effect to your red layer, which will force the saturation down to a broadcast legal level.
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Another way to deal is to make sure that you’re Red’s RGB values (And I assume they are 255, 0, 0) never go above 235. That is probably the ceiling for an acceptable red in the world of broadcast safe colors.
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big thanks for all your help lads – cow’s been a real life saver. I’m working from home alone, an ex print designer daring to venture in to the world of motion – and loving it!
I’m still wet behind the ears and getting pretty good at creating the effects but often i’m stuck at the first and last hurdles (comp formats then finally the right renders for web movies) – all for a future postwill look at colour in FCP, but wondered if there is a way to do this job in after effects itself and should i make sure the illustrator guy i work with hands me files with the correct colour levels already set: if so, is there a written rule of maximum colour values i can tell him to use?
on this occasion – I dont have a proper monitor, but have linked my crappy home tv (i work in pal) to Final Cut via my cameras firewire . Is this ok for a makeshift system – in other words better than nothing?
also this particular animation is going on the net – does this colour issue apply for web videos as well as broadcast? (although i think the client may want to use this video on a DVD at some point, so it may be better to design for all possibilities anyway)
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