Return-Path: Received: from spike.lmi.net ([66.117.140.17] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 4746364 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:39:56 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.143] (c-71-198-249-239.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.198.249.239]) by spike.lmi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B40154034 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:42:37 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Subject: Re: [AE] [OT] DCP From: Brendan Bolles In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:42:37 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <41D20A0D-6AA6-4449-B215-FD243AA4A12B@fnordware.com> References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) On Jun 13, 2012, at 4:52 PM, Jack Tunnicliffe wrote: > We ended up purchasing a Fuze and are creating ours in hardware and = the conversion to X-Y-Z color space is flawless. Many of the software = products shift well everything. We've evaluated some DCP's that were = created elsewhere by festivals, etc, from our masters and we can barely = recognize them from the source, blown out highlights, lifted blacks, = shifted color, you name it. I wonder what's going on with these other software products. XYZ = conversion should be a well-defined, straight-forward thing. In After = Effects, you can do it with the supplied color profiles. What's the = shift you're talking about? There should be no reason to believe a proprietary hardware device can = do a better job than software for the XYZ conversion. Kind of reminds = me of how some ad agencies will pay more for work done on a Flame, as if = the pixels are somehow imbued with extra magic that way. Brendan