[Martin Dugard]

Thanks so much for your very helpful comments and advice! Will stick with FCPX then an look for the plug ins you recommended. Thanks so much

[Martin Dugard]

Thank you very much. So I understand that the combinaison of PPro + Ae is not per se stronger than FCP.

I looked at the AE demo about masks (https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/how-to/create-mask-for-premiere.html) and was so impressed that I thought that may be AE was stronger than FCP

[Martin Dugard]

I was told in FCP7 days that basically the whole movie industry was on FCP& (damn me, I was a pC user at that time – sorry) did things change with FCPX? Now that FCPX is more robust is FCP still the heavy weight or did it loose a lot of share to PP? I suppose there is no hard data but what is your feel on that?

[Martin Dugard]

Thank you al for your very informative answers. Just a quick thing if I have projects made inside PPro CS6, I suppose there is no way to open hem up inside FCP X… or is there a magical work around?

Thanks again

[Martin Dugard]

thanks a lot for the idea – would you kindly tell me how to run a chrono script? thanks a lot!

[Martin Dugard]

Thanks a lot for your kind help!

No pb, those kind of things do happen.

Best

[Martin Dugard]

Dear Tim,

I sent you an earlier question but meanwhile I think I found a solution

It’s indeed a question of discrepancy of gamma between Quicktime and Premiere Pro.

The solution can be found at

https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2008/06/fix-quicktime-gamma-shift/

Hope it helps

Martin

[Martin Dugard]

Dear Tim,

Thanks for your very useful post.

I indeed have the same issue as Mark. I think you are right, the problem probably lies in the difference of gamma of QT. I have no way of checking that because Windows Media Player would not play my MEPG 4 Movie file.

Anyway, may I ask you: do you have any idea of how to solve this issue (I am actually producing a film for Mac so I need it to work with QT)?

I recall the same experience as you had when working with Final Cut once (very washed out) and the trick was to change the gama in Final Cut.

Any idea on how to solve this issue with Premiere Pro, ie make the rendered video file’s colors same as the one I m seeing inside Premiere Pro?

I cannot see any setting related to gama in the Export Setting window.. any other solution?

Your thougths will be most welcomed!

Thanks a lot in advance

Martin

[Martin Dugard]

Dear all,

I have the same exact problem than Alberto: I have made a video made of high quality pictures then encoded using H264 (level 5.1).
While the colors appear perfect during the editing process, once rendered, they appeared very washed out in the resulting Quicktime movie.
One strikking example is blacks. I have left some part all black. Once rendered, it turns grayish.

I would welcome any suggestion!

Thanks so much in advance.

Martin

PS- I m using CS5 on a Vista 64 bits, using H264, level 5.1 (also tried at level 5.0 without much change and it seems that Alberto tried without much success with 720×576 PAL DV widescreen/ the MainConcept codec, so I guess the issue does not lie with codec choice)