Re: AVID to After Effects

It has to do with the 601/RGB conversion. You should be importing it with the 601 color space setting. Do a test with some color bars or a ramp. RGB black is R0,G0,B0 and white is R255,G255,B255. 601 is R16,G16,B16 and R235,G235,B235.

What I normally do is output my QTs from the Avid with the RGB color space setting. This pushes the blacks down to zero and the whites up to 255. I bring that file into AE and do all my work. After the render I import with the 601 color space setting and the Avid brings black back to 16 and white back to 235.

Now I know that the new AE has color management settings so there may be a way to work in AE in 601 color space. This would be ideal because you could export same as source, do your AE work, render with the Avid codec, and then import (with the RGB setting i guess?) and there would never be a 601/RGB conversion.

Hopefully someone with a little more knowledge will weigh in on this thread and spell out the best way to work with the Avid Meridian 1:1 codec and the DNxHD codecs when it comes to AE and colorspace.