Re: quicktime Combustion horrors...

Haven't had a problem with None yet but I don't doubt that Quicktime will screw that up too. Generally, I stick to the oft repeated adage here to use Image Sequences in and out of everything. That way I know that I am not responsible for accidentally changing gamma, colors, frame rate, aspect etc. at the end of a job. The only reason I'm using Quicktime with None at all is because I work with a bunch of Final Cut editors that cannot bring a sequence in to FCP directly so they bring it in to After Effects and make a quicktime there. More often than not they screw something up there and then come back to me a day later in a panic that the footage doesn't match or something. At least this way I can provide a QT that they can read directly and can A/B in FCP to see that it is the same as the original. For output I insist on image sequences as there doesn't seem to be a safe way to go from Mac to PC.

This link is Apple's somewhat lame explanation of why there is a gamma shift in Quicktime. At least partially about correcting for Apple's non-standard 1.8 monitor gamma. Urgh. Shake in this example represents all non-Quicktime (read: NORMAL) based applications.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2912?viewlocale=en_US