I missed the detail about it showing up in the final edit. If that's true, this is something else.

Brian

Also this. I was gonna mention that. But if they see the shift in fcp for final edit I guess it does matter. They can't just gamma shift it back?

On Oct 4, 2012 7:46 PM, "Brian Maffitt" <brian@totaltraining.com> wrote:

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.

> Hey all,
>
> I'm running into some gamma issues or something, which I've never seen before.
>
> 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.
>
> This however, is a completely different ball of yarn.
>
> Basically.. I can take a ProRes 422 HQ file from my client (who works on a Mac)
>
> 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..
>
> when I render.. the render turns out to be DARKER than the source footage.. but only when viewed in QuickTime Player.
>
> 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.
>
> What's going on here?
>
> 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..
>
> Every piece of footage I send through AE looks darker when viewed side-by-side in QT...
>
> 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.. :\
>
> any last minute help.....or shoves, would be greatly appreciated..
>
> ///Greg Balint
> //Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer
> /321.514.4839
> delRAZOR.com/
>
> On 10/4/2012 4:21 PM, Bruce Wainer wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Bruce Wainer
>
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