[Nicholas Bateman]

Oh also, I have a bunch of different monitors here, but I think the main one that the display is reading is a Dell 4k P2715Q.

Here are three stills:

One with the display color on:

One with it off:

and one with it off and the gamma brought down:

To my eye, the one with display color off and the gamma brought down still isn’t achieving the correct black level, and losing a bit of the vibrance of the color profile. I haven’t brought these into resolve yet, but is this the correct way I should be compositing with that display color turned off?

[Nicholas Bateman]

Unless I’m super wrong, the standard compositing space for anything feature related is rec709 gamma 2.4. If I’m understanding you correctly and it’s rendering at 2.2 then wouldn’t the image get darker?
Thanks!

[Nicholas Bateman]

Ah, interesting! View- Simulate Output was on. When ticked off it reverted back to the flatter profile similar to the export. There is no simulate output checked. However, when I do check any of those (including rgb or just rec709) the image is horribly posterized.

Additionally, with it checked off, there seems to be no natural way to bring the black levels in the image to a correct placement. What is the standard method for this?

[Nicholas Bateman]

Thanks so much for your reply! I attached color grid grabs. The first one is from the AE composition, the second is a preview of it in the AME viewer (same as it looks on export) and the third is my color management settings. Again, I’ve tried basically every combination of the management options ticked and unticked. Additionally, Resolve, Quicktime, VLC, Vimeo, and Resolve all read the flatter version. Only the AE project from which it is exported will show the darker version.
Seems nuts. Any ideas? Is there some 709 metadata that is being carried with the file instead of being baked in? Perhaps it’s moving the black level up past 16? I’ve also tried other codecs, same result…

viewer in comp

export preview

color management