[Joseph Lewis]

I think we are having the same issue, please check my thread
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/1059129

If you find a solution, let me know!

[Joseph Lewis]

I believe I’m preparing the source wrongly in After Effects…

Here is what I did today. I added a solid black in Davinci Resolve, in the output setting set video/data levels to 4-1019, picked quick time wrapper and rendered a few seconds of it as I result I had black.mov file. Then I dragged/dropped that file to Media Encoder, picked h264 match source/bitrate, converted and volia – VLC played everything with true blacks. Uploaded to Youtube, everything super black. All players show blacks as I expect.

Like I mentioned in my initial post I cannot achieve the same effect with After Effects. I tested many things in AE and nothing worked for me but I’m ready to go through that again, maybe I missed something.

I uploaded rendered files:
https://www.filedropper.com/showdownload.php/black_5

ae.black.mp4 (rendered via AE, just created new comp, added solid black, dragged and dropped to media encoder; no color management, levels or embed color profile as it didn’t work for me…)

black.aep (my simple AE file)

davinci.resolve.black.mov (rendered via Davinci Resolve, set video/data levels to 4-1019)

davinci.resolve.black.rencoded.with.media.encoder.mp4 (dragged/dropped davinci.resolve.black.mov to media encoder. This file shows superblacks across all players I tried)

PS how do I exactly set video/data levels in AE like I did in Davinci resolve…?

Thanks