[Ivar Edding]

Thanks again for the help!

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Mac Pro 8 core, 16gb RAM, OS 10.6.6, AE CS5
Canon 7D, Canon 50mm 1.4, Leica 24mm 2.8, Tokina 11-16mm 2.8

[Ivar Edding]

Hey guys!

Thank you for your time to answer my question!

After following your guidelines and some experimenting, I found the following:
– I had set the project working space to AdobeRGB(1998), and I interpreted the clips as working space, i.e. they also adopted the AdobeRGB(1998) color space. This made all the renders, whatever the output profile, to look washed out and desaturated. This happened even if I clicked “preserve RGB” in the output profile.
– I then tried setting my working space to different kinds of Rec709, and since my clips followed the working space they changed accordingly. The regular Rec709 also made the clips in the comp viewer look washed out, but the Rec709 16-235 made them look quite decent. Don’t know what’s going on there, is the 16-235 some kind of s-curve LUT? However, the renders still looked bad.
– I then switched my working space to sRGB, which made the clips change, and they looked washed out in the comp viewer. Then I went into the clips and interpreted them as AdobeRGB(1998), and boom – back to looking good. Now when I rendered using working space (sRGB), it look good!

So my lesson was to keep the working space at sRGB, and not interpret the clips as working space if captured using anything else than standard sRGB.

Thanx again!

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Mac Pro 8 core, 16gb RAM, OS 10.6.6, AE CS5
Canon 7D, Canon 50mm 1.4, Leica 24mm 2.8, Tokina 11-16mm 2.8