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1. Re: Color Management between AE and Pre Pro
Mylenium Nov 1, 2010 9:55 AM (in response to Cris is Bliss)CM is never simple and trust me, it is a lot easier today than it was 10 years ago. Regarding these issues, there is no simple answer here, I'm afraid. Premiere shows you a preview and you should take that very literally. It is in most cases not color exact which relates to chroma undersampling being used in many footage types and possible Gamma shifts plus however your monitor is mis-tweaked. Premiere however recognizes a monitor profile and can correct for it, if one exists and is assigned. Still, if it is just a generic factory profile and not a specific manual calibration profile this doesn't help you in any way. Also note that some Premiere effects and transitions do not operate in RGB to begin with, but use YCbCr/ YUV as their color space, as has been common for eons in video editing... So you see, a whole lot of complication. The simple truth here is, that the only true verification of video output still comes from an external monitor and scopes. AE on the other hand has a full color metrics engine. how to set that up is explained in a few documents on the help pages. it doesn't realyl solve your problem, since if you don't calibrate your monitor, the colors technically would still be off, but it might give you some more insights in what you need to do to improve your predicatbility...
Mylenium
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2. Re: Color Management between AE and Pre Pro
Todd_Kopriva Nov 1, 2010 10:30 AM (in response to Mylenium)Here's a link to the duplicate thread:
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3. Re: Color Management between AE and Pre Pro
ronfya Jan 25, 2013 8:09 AM (in response to Mylenium)Sorry to bring up an old thread but I need to clarify the following.
Mylenium wrote:
The simple truth here is, that the only true verification of video output still comes from an external monitor and scopes. AE on the other hand has a full color metrics engine. how to set that up is explained in a few documents on the help pages. it doesn't realyl solve your problem, since if you don't calibrate your monitor, the colors technically would still be off, but it might give you some more insights in what you need to do to improve your predicatbility...
Does that mean that
- if we have a calibrated computer screen with a custom ICC profile
- and if we had color management in apps such as Premiere,
then, we wouldn't need an external calibratred broadcast monitor to do the grading ?
Equally, does that mean that one could do quite accurate grading on a calibrated computer monitor using AE with color management enabled ?
Thanks
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4. Re: Color Management between AE and Pre Pro
Todd_Kopriva Jan 25, 2013 4:10 PM (in response to ronfya)If you are using a computer monitor that has a large enough gamut to display the colors of your target device, and if that computer monitor is calibrated correctly, you will be able to simulate the target device and use the computer monitor for color grading and other color work.
Be sure to read up on the basics of color management here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS61A9D13D-919A-4010-A3A2-00477A81FDB0a. html
Be especially sure to read this paper:



