Gregg, that seems to be the culprit. Removing the audio tracks through qt allows the DNxHD files to come on to premiere CS5. Now if I could just figure out a way to get the QT engine to recognize the data as already scaled to that it doesn’t scale it down to 7.5-90 thereby introducing a gamma shift. Then it might be useful in a broader way.
Are there best practices to using DNxHD i’m unfamiliar with?
After Effects color management interpretation allow me to get in the ballpark by specifying it as scaled 709, which while not dead on starts to approach the color. However premiere doesn’t seem to support color management.