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From: "Stephen van Vuuren" <stephen@sv2studios.com>
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Subject: RE: [AE] [OT] DCP
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:12:46 -0400
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> 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?

I've actually seem the same things - some of it user error (confusion over
frame rates, SMTPE vs. InterOp, mastering output) but a number of software
packages have no color management or some actually broken color management,
you if bring in say a 16-bit TIFF sequence tagged ProPhotoRGB and it will
process XYZ as 8-bit RGB.

> There should be no reason to believe a proprietary hardware device can do
a better job than software for the XYZ conversion

That I agree with. As long as you have color management configured correctly
in AE, XYZ conversion is flawless. I've had my DCP's compared against
Technicolor, Deluxe and Fotokem and the matched or exceeded them from a
color standpoint.

stephen van vuuren
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