[Ryan Mccauley]

Thanks for this! Now at least my values are correct both in Hex and RGB. Apparently they were using 8-bit color and I was in 10. Now I’ll have to play around with my export settings.

[Ryan Mccauley]

I’ve just tried opening a seperate project and importing some RGB values from my Color Index book. Still no match. This is driving me insane

[Ryan Mccauley]

Thanks for all the info on Color Management. I’m relatively new to this subject although I do have a general handle on the basics. As far as the Monitor Color profiles, I was just grasping at straws to figure out what could be wrong.

My main concern is that I’m creating graphics from nothing. Shapes, text and solids in After Effects. When I input the RGB values into the color picker, it’s not even close. Hex is close but not close enough. I’m thinking that the palette I’ve been given to work with is based on 256 colors and I’m guessing that AE is running Millions. I’m not sure if this is something that should create this kind of conflict. When I input the Hex values, my Red values ten to be in the 1,000-1500 range as opposed to a 150-240 range on my palette.

Like I said in my previous post, I didn’t have this issue on the first project I worked on for them, using the same computer, software, Monitor and settings. I’m guessing there is a way to change the color picker to 256 colors somewhere that I don’t know about.

[Ryan Mccauley]

I started out with everything “Off” and changing settings has had no effect other than to make the color look further off. Just tried the “Simulate Output” it didn’t change anything.

After doing some reading on the Color management for AE, I came across a few articles that suggested changing your monitor color profile to sRGB IEC61966-2.1. So I did, and also tried Adobe 1998, Apple RGB and standard RGB settings to see if it made a difference.

The Client has provided me with an PDF that has swatches and includes Spot (Pantone), CMYK, RGB and HEX values of each color. I would import it and just color pick but the PDF is low quality and I don’t trust the color resolution of it.

[Ryan Mccauley]

If you click on the little drop down icon in the upper right corner of each frame, you can undock and move that frame. Once you have it set just add a new window layout preset.

[Ryan Mccauley]

I’ve also been learning about P2 usage with PPro and from what I understand, You have to copy the entire card folder structure over in order to keep the video, audio and metadata linked. If you are looking for a “Log and Capture” style setup, you have to use FCP or another P2 import/transcoding software.

I Typically do the same thing as you are attempting to and with PPro so far, I’ve had to copy the entire card to my media drive. I’m hoping that I can figure out a way to media manage the final project for archiving and ditch the files that weren’t used.

Hope this helps!