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Subject: Re: [AE] incorrect colors on output to client
From: Brian Maffitt <brian@totaltraining.com>
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 19:44:40 -0400
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Before you completely panic, I think you may be seeing a fairly =
well-know Quicktime-on-Windows display bug. It only affects how the =
movie looks when played in Quicktime, not when used in another =
application. Take a look at the same clip in VLC and see if it looks OK.=20=


> Hey all,
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> I'm running into some gamma issues or something, which I've never seen =
before.
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> I've previously had issue with the H.264 bug, where renders would come =
out lighter, almost looking like their gamma was bumped up. I know what =
that looks like and how to alleviate it.
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> This however, is a completely different ball of yarn.
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> Basically.. I can take a ProRes 422 HQ file from my client (who works =
on a Mac)
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> Import it into AE on my PC, make a new comp from the footage, and add =
it to the render queue with Animation Codec at 100% - RGB - millions of =
colors, premultiplied matted..
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> when I render.. the render turns out to be DARKER than the source =
footage.. but only when viewed in QuickTime Player.
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> If I bring that render back into AE and do an A/B on the footage vs =
the source, they look identical.. .it's only when viewing in QT Player =
that they look different. and apparently when editing in FCP as well.
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> What's going on here?
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> I thought it might be a bit-depth thing, but I've set all 3 settings =
in project, and that changes nothing. I also tried some other codecs, =
including some "Trillions of Colors" codecs, because I noticed that the =
codec they provided source footage in said that in the project panel... =
still no avail.. I even ticked and unticked the "match legacy gamma" =
option in the project settings panel.. nothing doing..
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> Every piece of footage I send through AE looks darker when viewed =
side-by-side in QT...
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> This is the first time I've had this happen, and come to find out, ALL =
of the FX shots I've done for this Indie film have this happening.. so =
now I need to figure out how to change that, and also re-render abhout =
40+ FX shots, by tonight.. :\
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> any last minute help.....or shoves, would be greatly appreciated..
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> ///Greg Balint
> //Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer
> /321.514.4839
> delRAZOR.com/
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> On 10/4/2012 4:21 PM, Bruce Wainer wrote:
>> Hello all,
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>> For a school Telecommunications project I need several different =
After Effects benchmark projects. For this I cannot use CUDA, as it is a =
cloud computing project. Therefore I would like to shy away from =
anything using the new CS6 render engine. My Google search brought up =
Brian Maffitt's benchmark here: =
http://www.media-motion.tv/aebenchmarks.html, but I would like some more =
projects to use. I do not have any serious need to compare it to other =
systems, I'm going to use these as sample clients to prove our system =
works.
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>> Thanks in advance,
>> Bruce Wainer
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