[Ron Craig]

Thanks Aaron,

Tried the Gamma setting but it didn’t do any good.

Say, when you said that you had played around with this problem and come up with some decent results, were you making adjustments to anything I wasn’t (as described in my test report, above)?

Lee

[Ron Craig]

Thanks, Rich. I appreciate your point but I was careful to change the colorspace settings in each location on each test.

Are you able to do what I can’t: export high def video(ProRes 422 HQ)from FCP 6.0 to AE and render back into FCP with an image match? In Leopard. Man, if you can do that it would be a world of help for me to know your settings/workflow.

Lee

[Ron Craig]

I can’t report any success. I tested a few seconds of 720p Pro Res (HQ) video exported from FCP to After Effects and then rendered out of AE with nothing done to it. My hope is to export something out of AE that will be a match for the original clip in FCP.

I have tested these settings in AE:
Workingspace: none
8 bit per channel
Footage also set to none for color space
Export as animation.
This did not produce good footage; it is much darker thatn the original when imported back into FCP.

I tried the same settings as above, exported as ProRes. Same problem.

I tried:
Workingspace: 709, 709 (16-235), SMTP-C
All the same: footage is darker when reimported to FCP.

I tried all the same settings in 16 bit per channel. No joy.

Does anyone know certain settings that will let me export my material from FCP (shot as DVCPRO HD 720p 30 fps, captured in FCP as ProREs 422 (HQ)) into After Effects…. and then work with it there and export back to FCP successfully, with color match?

Or is it just impossible? It was suggested here that I raise this question on the After Effects forum. I’ll do that.

Ron

[Ron Craig]

I just checked out the 50 Point Bezier Matte. It’s obviously been around a while. Any user reports here?

Anyone know if it works with FCP6/Leopard?

[Ron Craig]

Thanks Aaron,

Great information. (What’s up with those first two frames? Weird.)

I think I’m up to date on versions but I’ll check. I bought the AE upgrade recently, supposedly after the Leopard issues had been worked out.

I’ll run a test with your specs and report back.

Ron

[Ron Craig]

Hi Fred,
It seems pretty clear that this was the monitor connection. Thanks for the suggestion, though. BTW, when I bought the Octocore I spent $500 for an APC UPS. So power spikes, etc. better not be the problem!

Ron

[Ron Craig]

Hi Aaron,

Thanks very much. It would be great to continue working with AE the way I have in the past.

Yes… I am on Leopard.

Ron

[Ron Craig]

Thanks! I’ll give it a try and post back.

Ron

[Ron Craig]

Well, the crashes have stopped. I just started doing as many things as I could think of and at one point I got behind the computer to make sure the connections were all secure. I think one of my monitor connectors had come a bit loose. Should that cause hard crashes? I dunno. But the crashes have stopped.

[Ron Craig]

Aaron,

I don’t believe the posters above were saying that this is a ProRes issue. I take it that it is a more general colorspace issue.

Are you saying, Aaron, that you have been able to accomplish successfully what I have so far failed to do, as described in my initial post, above? If so, I would really appreciate you passing along the workflow/settings that you used.

Cheers,

Ron