[Jerry Smith]

Assuming you don’t want to use 36 bit that is.

[Jerry Smith]

And–I just noticed!–If I export through Media Encoder, there is no need to covert! Hmm….

[Jerry Smith]

Walter, are you around?

[Jerry Smith]

Not sure if you guys saw my responses. 🙂

[Jerry Smith]

Thanks to both of you.

Dave, I understand what you getting at. But we agreed that I should use sRGB. The problem is that I don’t know how to do that.

Walter, my monitor has not been profiled, but it is a decent monitor albeit getting up there in years. It is a Dell that cost in the the 700 range.

But my needs are pretty simple because my pallette is tiny. No gradients. Half a dozen colors. All I really need is the color #A30101 to look Candy Apple / You Tube / Ferrari red. The other colors will likely look good enough no matter what I do. I just punched in the hex A30101 in AI, PS, AE, but I paid no attention to color management. It looks good both on my Dell monitor and on my iMac. But it looked a little dark on the Windows machine.

Sooo, let me just ask this question. Is that a good hex? Or is there some close hex that would be better? How does #A30101 look on your monitor?

THANKS!

[Jerry Smith]

I’m sorry, but this is going to take me a while to get straight.

Let’s take an example. I use the color #a30101, a sorta Ferrari red. Sometimes I created it in AI, sometimes in PS, sometimes as a solid in AE, sometimes as a fill in AE. I’m not sure what color profiles were in play. sRGB, Apple, and Adobe RGB I think. So anyway, I just looked and I am using 8bit color with my Working Space set to None. #a30101 looks good on my Mac+Dell monitor. When I change the Working Space to most of the other options at the top of the list, it looks too orange/bright. When I change it to sRGB, it looks too dark, unless I turn off Use Display Color Mangement. Linearize is set to off. Compensate for Scene-referred Profiles is set to on.

Final output is for web/computer video.

What should I do?

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Further worries. The red comes out too dark if I view the video on a Lenovo laptop. In fact it comes out too dark even if I just put A30101 in a CSS file for a HTML page. Is that a problem with the brightness of the laptop?

[Jerry Smith]

Thanks.

I’m pretty sure what I want to do is keep all the hexedecimals the same but just make sure that the hexes are delivered as sRGB. I suspect that that may be different from conversion.

I think I have Apple, Adobe, and sRGB profiles in play. But everything originated in AI or PS or AE with specific hexes. I have a rather elaborate system of hexes.

One day I noticed that a few hexes seemed to be off so slightly. That may be my error. More likely though is that AE converted something.

Another day I noticed that a candy apple red on my usual mac machines looked more like Burgundy on a windows machine.

Thoughts?

[Jerry Smith]

Thanks Dave! I’m so happy to hear that from you!

How do I do it? Do I just do it when I put it in the Render Queue? I’m a bit confused as there are various smart objects and the AI files aren’t sRGB.

[Jerry Smith]

So when colours look different on different machines, all of them are looking different? And not just a few?

[Jerry Smith]

Maybe this will work:

If I am only using 6 colours in a web video, does it matter what they are as long as they aren’t ugly?