RGB YUV Conversion

[nicholasraeburn]

Has anyone come up with a sure fire way to get rid of the Luma shift when porting between FCP and After Effects . I have tried millions of different codecs and exporting wih quicktime conversion and just as quicktime but I still cannot believe there is something as fundementally flawed as this up with FCP or it could be Quicktime. If ANYONE can help I'll buy you a beer.:beer:

[Justin_Kirch]

Quicktime has a drastic shift when exporting as h.264. I've had numerous problems as well. Unfortunately, until they come out with a new codec I don't think there's anything we can do. You can always try to crush your blacks more to counteract the export, but that won't (and almost always won't) fix your problem.

Good luck nicholas. Keep experimenting.

[nicholasraeburn]

I just can't beleive that two apps that cost £2000 between them don't do the job there supposed to do ie something as simple as moving a file between them.:furious3:

[Demistate]

I just can't beleive that two apps that cost £2000 between them don't do the job there supposed to do ie something as simple as moving a file between them.:furious3:

I think that they want you to buy shake, being that it's only $500 now.

I have never run into the problem that you are describing when staying within the adobe suite (But thats only in Windows.)

I would assume if you are working with DV, and use the Quicktime DV codec that the colors should be preserved correctly through out the whole process, but Maybe I was wrong in my assumption.

I've never worked on After effects and FCP on a single mac project. But I rendered out compositions from Quicktime DV files, captured though FCP, and worked on a PC, re-exported the files as Quicktime DV, and they worked just fine back into the FCP timeline, without any noticible color changes, or variatations between the PC and Mac.

[nicholasraeburn]

Thanks for the fedback I think this is something that seems to be popping up on a couple of forums with luma shift issues porting between apps on the mac, I think a quicktime update was supposed to fix it to no avail. Any codec i am rendering from or to and exporting from or to ends up with a slight luma shift ie the whites are slightly duller, can anyone else confirm this.

PS Kai if your out there have you heard of this problem and if so how did you recify it?:dankk2: