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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 336.202.4777 http://www.sv2dcp.com/ http://www.sv2studios.com/ http://www.outsideinthemovie.com/ A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. -Stanley Kubrick |
