[Spiridon Mekas]

Hi Brendon, thanks again for your sharp deduction and problem solving!

And thanks for this informative advice, I’ll definitely look into the subject more thoroughly.

My work is for both web and TV so I work exactly as you describe, unmanaged – I check that the files i receive from designers are not cmyk – it does happen often! – and that’s about it. Then I deliver a file in a standard delivery or production format to a producer, technician or an editor and they take it from there.

Sometimes i get very specific instructions from the producer or the network and i follow their instructions word by word. But that’s about it.

[Spiridon Mekas]

Well said Chris, you are exactly right.

A lesson that somehow I have to learn and relearn time and time again.

Thank you for replying,

Cheers!

[Spiridon Mekas]

Thanks Eric, although it turned out that the problem was with the file having unbaked adjustment layer I will definitely check this out and look into color management some more.

Thanks for your help, I appreciate it!

[Spiridon Mekas]

Brendon you are the boss! Thank you!

It completely flew by me, it was a curves adjustment in a folder within a folder within a folder. I completely went in the other direction and got lost..

Thank you very much!

[Spiridon Mekas]

Hello Eric, thanks for the reply!

Yeah, I’m really puzzled. I can easily adjust it to specs with levels/curves but I am hoping for someone who can explain why this happens. My research so far indicates it should work by default, the color mode of the document and the way my Ae is set up are basically compatible, or should be.

Lot’s of stuff to read on the web, I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed.

Cheers!

[Spiridon Mekas]

I’m more of an illustrator/animator/art director type and although I’m fairly confident using after effects the technical side is something I have always relied on collaborators to handle.

[Spiridon Mekas]

I must add, although this is not a huge issue it was still something my client noticed and i had to put an adjustment layer with curves to match it with the .psd preview.

So, i patched the problem but I’m still puzzled as to why this happens.

[Spiridon Mekas]

Hi Chris, thanks for the quick reply!

Do you mean color management in the project settings or the one in the interpret footage menu?

I tried fiddling with them, turning them both on and off as well as changing color profiles and it didn’t work. Some color profiles made the image look drastically different but none matched it with the photoshop preview.

[Spiridon Mekas]

Hm, it didnt upload the image, let’s try again:

[Spiridon Mekas]

hi Dave

I managed to lower the vertice number by adjusting auto trace options and now it’s working fine.

I’m using newton for various things. It’s kind of hard to explain since it is a rather experimental animation film but basically it’s to make drawings jump around and bounce in collision with other drawings. I previously made a test with shape layers and then planned the whole thing for newton so i don’t see how i could find an alternative.

Anyway, now it’s working so all is well:)

Thanks!

Spiro