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From:	Tupper, Scott (HQP) <scott.tupper@rhi.com>
Subject:	QuickTime X colors off
Date:	Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:45:34 +0000
To:	After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>

For giggles I made a matte using my client's colors, 0,171,134 inside PPro CS6, export ProRes 422, opened in QT 7 with FCS compatibility on, sampled it with the OSX DigitalColor Meter and got 0,169,137, not bad but not great. Open that same mov in QT X (just as my client is doing) and sampled at 1,180,145, the same as if I turned off FCS in QT 7.

My understanding is PPro doesn't manage color, even if it did why is legacy QT 7 (with FCS on) closer than QT X?

Is gamma really an issue here in 10.8.4 I thought all was 2.2?

I'm going mad on this one.

Help anyone?

-scott

From: Lloyd Alvarez <lists@aescripts.com>
Reply-To: After List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Date: Thursday, August 15, 2013 4:44 AM
To: After List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: Re: [AE] client review tool

If you render to a codec that supports color profiles like prores then it should look the same in QT X as it does in AE as long as you are using color management.

Lloyd

On Wednesday, August 14, 2013, Tupper, Scott (HQP) wrote:

Just played torture test viewing the same video in QuickTime 7, QuickTime X and VLC.

YIKES!

VLC was the most faithful in color reproduction but how do I convince the client to use VLC over QuickTime?

Is VLC doing something that QT isn't, reading color profile info?

Thanks as always!

-scott