[Tim Kurkoski]

Glad to hear that works for you.

[Tim Kurkoski]

Premiere Pro does not support color management in the way that After Effects does. Via Dynamic Link, the linearized values in your After Effects comp are not corrected for screen display in Premiere Pro.

To get the results you want, add an adjustment layer to the top of the layer stack in the comp and apply the Color Profile Converter effect. Set the Output Profile to Rec.709 (sRGB is practically identical and will also work, but Dynamic Link uses Rec.709 internally so is a better match). This forces After Effects to transform the linearized pixels into a non-linearized color space that looks correct.

Note that while the CPC effect is active and View > Display Color Management is enabled (it is enabled by default), this extra layer of color transforms will make the comp appear incorrect in After Effects, at the same time the comp will now look correct in Premiere Pro. Disable Display Color Management to make the appearance of the comp in After Effects match what you see in Premiere Pro. While working on the comp, however, you probably want to work with Display Color Management enabled and the adjustment layer disabled.

Under the hood, when color management is enabled in After Effects, the pixels it writes into the cache include the appropriate color transforms for the settings you have chosen. When the comp is displayed in the Composition panel in After Effects, an additional transform is added to the screen buffer pixels (not the pixels in the cache) to make it look correct on your computer screen, or not if you have disabled Display Color Management. When the pixels are read through Dynamic Link, no display color management happens, nor does Premiere Pro apply any, so you get the same appearance as having Display Color Management disabled in After Effects.

Make sense?

[Tim Kurkoski]

After Effects does not recognize that you have more than one monitor. Adobe Monitor 1 and 2 will only appear when After Effects sees more than one monitor being used for your desktop.

Is your 2nd monitor mirroring your desktop or do you have the desktop spread across both monitors. Mirroring needs to be disabled. Post a screenshot of your System Preferences > Display control panel if you continue to have issues.

BTW, you should uncheck Adobe DV. If you’re not using a Firewire DV device all it is going to do is drag on the performance in After Effects.

[Tim Kurkoski]

No need to use Firewire. HDMI from your video card will work.

Go to Preferences > Video Preview. Click on Enable Mercury Transmit, then enable Adobe Monitor 1 or 2, depending on which one you want to have the preview appear on.

Note that if any part of the main application frame for After Effects is on that monitor, the preview won’t work.

Again, everything you need to know about video preview with Mercury Transmit is here:
https://bit.ly/AE_video_preview

If you’re still having problems, post a screenshot of your Video Preview preferences.

[Tim Kurkoski]

Information about how video preview in After Effects CC 2014:
https://bit.ly/AE_video_preview

Can you be more specific about your configuration?

Are you using a AJA, Blackmagic, Bluefish or Matrox card? If so, what model? Download and install the latest drivers for it.

If not, how are you connecting the monitor to your computer?

[Tim Kurkoski]

What happens if you try other comp sizes and frame rates? ex., 720×480/0.91/29.97 or 1280×720/59.94?

Can you post a screen shot of the Preferences > Video Preview pane? I want to see how that looks for your Blackmagic card.

[Tim Kurkoski]

Two possibilities here:

1. While the applications use the same Mercury Transmit plug-ins, Blackmagic did make some bug fixes for After Effects. Since your card doesn’t use the latest drivers, you won’t have access to the bug fixes.

2. What are the dimensions, PAR, and frame rate of your comp?

Blackmagic doesn’t support displaying comps that do not match a frame format that exactly matches one of it’s supported video modes. ex. 720p59.94 is supported, but 720p29.97 is not. This is not a problem for the other types of devices we tested; other devices will scale the output to a supported video mode.

Try comps using different standard frame sizes and frame rates (SD in NTSC and PAL, 720p50/59.94, 1080p29.97, etc.). When you switch between comps, click out of AE to another application and back. This causes Mercury Transmit to refresh itself (assuming you have the Disable video when in background option enabled), and one of the bugs I remember Blackmagic working on had to do it not refreshing when switching between comps.

[Tim Kurkoski]

You should update your Blackmagic drivers to the most current, which are 10.1.1 for Mac OS.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support

Which Blackmagic device do you have?

[Tim Kurkoski]

Hi Robert,

There is a caching bug in AE CS6 that causes SWF exports to fail. You may be bumping up against this.

Can you send me your project file and dependent assets? I will test to verify this is in fact the case.
kurkoski@adobe.com

-=Tim Kurkoski
-=After Effects Quality Engineer