[Faith Granger]

Currently I have color management OFF. I tried color settings depth at both 16bit and now 32bit to see if it helped, but same outcome.
Previously the color management was ON (whatever AE defaults to, but I now don’t remember what the default setting was LOL) and since I was having the contrast issue I turned it off. As my initial post revealed, turning it ON or OFF did nothing to solve my predicament :/

Glad to hear I am not the only one who noticed AE difficulty in dealing accurately with color space.

Have you seen the screengrabs I uploaded on that page I made (see link in post 1), and can you suggest a project setting / color space and settings to correct the problem?

NOTE: you said ” right click the footage in the project panel and click “Interpret Footage”. Check the color management and see if it has the correct color profile.” but the problem is I don’t know what the “correct color profile” should be. I need guidance. As I said, it’s my first time using AE and I’ve only used it for about 10 days now, mostly dealing with creating my title animation (that went well 🙂 ) and now frame rate conversion…

[Faith Granger]

QUESTION 1 – 5 different consumer camcorders were used by casts / friends. Most are spitting out MPG-2:

Type: MPEG-2 Transport Stream
Streams
Video: 00:00:07.508, 29.970 fps interlaced, 1440x1080x12, AVC

file extentions varies from AVCHD Video (.MTS)(Sony camcorder) to Video Clip (.avi) (captured from mini tapes of older footage) to a few .mov files, usually those come from other weird formats I had to pre-render a few years back because they were making my NLE crash.

QUESTION 2 – When I pre-render in Vegas I chose SONY mxf, which produces very small files, renders super fast but does not show much quality loss, it is a good compromise, that was suggested by the Sony Vegas team.

This morning I will test one of the avi files see if I have the same problem. i think so far I have only converted EPISODE 4, which is all made of .MTS clips, so I;ll try importing a few avi fies and rendering them out see if it does the same thing and post result here.