[Chris Wright]

if you can’t reshoot,

1. try AE’s color stabilize black point

2. you could try keying out the shadows with a luma key
then running this template on just the shadows as an alpha matte.
It would auto keyframe the shadow/highlight effect
if you enable the text layer and scroll Gamma Clamp at gamma*10 so that the text box reads 25, it will
fix timelapse and old movie’s flicker.
https://f1.creativecow.net/6154/auto-white-balance-cs3-and-up

[Chris Wright]

you can setup your monitor profiled at gamma 2.2 if you want to match PC’s easier.
You should think about editing your working LUT to your native monitor gamma.

If you want to stick with gamma 1.8, continue reading.

1. for playback, QuickTime preference, General tab:
“Enable Final Cut Studio colour compatibility”

2. in AE,
Choose File > Project Settings. “Legacy Quicktime Gamma” preference via render queue, not export
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/kb/quicktime-movies-too-dark-light.html

3. there’s quicktime 1.8 iluts in speedgrade/premiere as well.

if those fail, just use dispcal(free), or brizsoft to create a custom gamma lut 1.8.

4. setup color management by placing this .icm into this folder and use AE file interpret color management or its utility profile converter set as this .icm
PC
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Color\Profiles
MAC folder is probably similar

(example)
AE’s color profile converter
input quicktime gamma 1.8
output project working space

download quicktime gamma 1.8 icm color profile
9887_quicktimegamma1.8.icc.zip

5. or just use this sRGB 1.8 iridas cube LUT if you don’t want to use color profiles
download sRGB 1.8 x16 iridas preview quality
9886_quicktimegamma1.8x16iridaslut.icm.zip

x64 render quality(slower)
9888_quicktimegamma1.8x64iridaslut.cube.zip

final note, the lut and color profile converter will negate needing to do the legacy preferences or quicktime player as its considered “burned in” although regular color management with simulate preview will not work unless you setup color management manually.

[Chris Wright]

if I understand you correctly, you need to stabilize the “written” color so that the added shadow doesn’t make it darker and flicker. Try Re:deflicker.
https://revisionfx.com/products/deflicker/

[Chris Wright]

I have no idea how your monitor is calibrated: white point D65? gamma, etc.
are you using SMPTE RP 431-2-2007 DCI (P3)? or 2011?
SMPTE EG 432-1 or SMPTE RP 431-2?

nonetheless, here is a best guess:
P3 to Rec. 709 D65 iridus Lut.

16 cube for speed draft playback quality
9881_p3torec70916.cube.zip

64 cube for render quality (higher quality is slow)
9882_p3torec70964.cube.zip

you can make your own with dispcal(free) or brizsoft.

[Chris Wright]

i’ve turned in I don’t know how many bug reports about this. I lost count! Basically you need a LUT to convert P3 to Rec. 709 and import it into Lumetri. Although, as you know, enabling luts in premiere requires a powerful gfx card.

Honestly since dynamic link doesn’t support color management, you’re going to have fun using speedgrade with P3.
and mercury transmit doesn’t support color management too! yep, blah!!! Better work in Rec. 709 for now till they update adobe stuff.

Only AE and photoshop can handle it with project working space, view-simulate and utility profile converter.
and they call this stuff professional?
back to Resolve I go!!!

[Chris Wright]

here is the realtime playback chart created by the foundry
https://help.thefoundry.co.uk/nuke/9.0/content/comp_environment/realtime_playback/realtime_playback.html
1080p is @ 197.75 MB/sec

if you don’t have a m.2, you can get the sata III SSD
Samsung 850 PRO SSD 512GB $219
random read write @ 2mb 300 MB/sec or 4k read 34 MB/sec write 80 MB/sec could handle multiple hd streams
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-SATA-Internal-MZ-7KE2T0BW/dp/B010QD6RX4

nvidia GTX 960-970 could easily handle cuda hd playback
https://forums.adobe.com/message/3377595

what is cuda and what does it accelerate? if you don’t use any of these, you won’t see much performance increase
Lumetri Deep Color Engine
– supported effects
– scaling
– deinterlacing
– transitions
– blending modes
– color space conversions
– maximum render quality
https://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2011/02/cuda-mercury-playback-engine-and-adobe-premiere-pro.html

Performance tips for slow hard drives.
—————
-Before you buy a new hard drive for Windows
determine what speeds you need with the codecs and compression in your NLE
and try to optimize OS disk usage
1. leave at least 15% free hd space
2. defrag
3. set power options to performance or gpu gets throttled
4. set some windows services to manual and stop writing other backgrond programs to disk
5. cmd as administrator
“chkdsk c: /r”
will repair any slow sections on your spinning hard drive by writing a new fat table. Warning! this takes hours.

6. in bios, performance set as ahci mode(if no raid)
7. disable drive indexing
8. disable windows search
9. disable superfetch
10. disabling prefetch

and for ssd’s only!
1.connect to motherboard intel ports (color grey) , not marvell/lamd ports (color navy blue)
2. do not defrag ssd’s, instead have schedules of trim command sent to the os
check with cmd then “fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify” if return 0 means its running

———————
basically my summary is this, buy the SSD first and see if it meets your needs enough before buying a gfx card.

[Chris Wright]

ah, ok well consider this micro upgrade.

a single SSD Samsung 951 Pro hits 2 GB/s $195 could easily handle 4k cache. so you could run multiple streams with one card without needing a raid controller! but do you have a m.2 spot on your motherboard?

Nvidia GTX 970-980 for 4k cuda playback $300-400

You’d at least stop hitting your head on playback and ram previews.

have you tried my fix-all post on premiere playback smoothness?
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/974834#974842

[Chris Wright]

possibly, there’s still a few bugs, at least until the next update. probably 9.3

but since it costs twice as much for half the speed, I wonder why you would buy it in the first place?

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1895281
“R9 390 is currently not 100 percent functional with adobe premier pro. It should be working during the render process even without special effects.”

“card wouldn’t be 100% working until the next Premier pro update”

[Chris Wright]

Are you PC or Mac?

why get the Intel Xeon Processor E5-2643 v2 benchmark 11735 $1808 if you can get
Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.00GHz 16,000 for only $1049?
you only need Xeon for > 64GB ram. the EEC kind which is waaayy more expensive too.

adobe 2015 cc doesn’t support multiprocessing anyway.
or if you need software that supports these extra virtual cores

so unless you’re rendering c4d or running a server farm, I’d say 512GB ram is a waste of money.
put the money towards a nice raid system

Get one with Thunderbolt 3 that can transfer data at up to 40Gbps (gigbits per second)
AKiTiO Thunder3 Duo Pro 3 External RAID Storage Thunder3 Duo Pro gives Adobe Premiere the ability to edit and playback MULTIPLE streams of HD and/or 4K content and can daisy chain multiple 4K displays simultaneously.

and a good card for cuda playback in premiere. 2x nvidia quadrio M6000
or a Blackmagic Design DeckLink Studio 4K.

You could build a really nice system yourself for very very cheap. Choose your own hard drives, sound card, gfx cards, thunderbolt 3’s, not someone elses prepackaged humdrum.

that HP stuff is living in the dark ages with thunderbolt 2, but then again, its entirely up to you.

[Chris Wright]

very interesting post.

perhaps look at it from a time saving point of view. Speedgrade can match grade using two timeline sliders at the same time,
masking tools, and supports external grading controllors. This is very true simply by looking at Resolve. It’s flagship focuses around a grading control board.

heck, you can even edit/color correct video in photoshop if you want! auto panning/zooming and ripple deleting etc.

I, myself actually use AE for some color correcting as its ACR import gives better quality for RAW imports than lumetri. I can create templates to define custom color changes that don’t exist in either premiere or speedgrade. With Re:Match plugins and other tools, I can auto match inside AE and get things looking great without speedgrade.

Also, speedgrade lacks the utility profile converter so I can’t do tricky color transformations. I need to use light illusions and create custom differential Luts. Although its GPU support helps in playback if I’m too lazy to create proxies.

Again,
with dynamic link, the process is relatively integrated and will continue to do so until adobe decides to improve premiere
or cut speedgrade or actually make both stable enough for a 4 hour edit in one timeline without catching on fire. Hey, it’s possible, Resolve does it everyday 🙂