• Over 9000 to @Shian

Rec 709 seems to be, at best, anachronistic or at worst, video engineers who endured decades of NTSC jokes giving everyone the finger. I totally agree, it's stupid. As soon as analog went the way of the dinosaur their silly superstitions and pseudo-science should have been a thing of the past but, no, that crap lingers on.

Besides, just watch TV, it doesn't matter local or network, cable, etc. there are no standards being observed and maintained. And even if they are the distribution channel (AT&T, Time Warner, etc.) screws it up.

@aronaguiar if I recall correctly, in case you're using 5DtoRGB, there's no need to assign a color profile.

Anyway, you have 3 options at least: 1) use "Preserve RGB", 2) use no color management at all, as Shian previously advised, 3) use Rec. 709.

In any case, you gotta see it for yourself: if your imported video (in AE's time line) looks the same (or you like how it looks there) as in some PC media player, then it's OK. Moreover, it's very easy to find out if you used a proper color profile. Import in the time line your video, do nothing with it in AE and render it there. If your rendered file "visually" looks the same as the original one, then you did everything right.

Thank you @MikhailK ! will do.

@producer Try to reinstall DNxHD. It should appear for sure. Anyway, after you're done, in the render settings of this codec you should manually check "RGB gamma" (not Rec. 709), otherwise your blacks will be crashed.

No, again DNxHD codec doesn't appear in AE Render settings.

What have I got to do?!?

@producer Try this one. http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Download/en423319

And follow the advice of @chauncy. Otherwise, I don't know what else you can do.

As for Cineform, as far as I recall, you can choose Rec. 709 or 444 (filmscan 1,2...). I didn't try 709 and tried 444 only. 444 looks OK (with RGB gamma). But...I don't use this codec in AE because in case I try to render a comp which has some internal precomps, my AE shows some error and doesn't let me render this comp. Only a single comp goes with no error.

I had also problems with AE + DNxHD. I re-installed everything, including Windows. Then it started working.

@producer Shian is right. I've just recalled that a long time ago in a galaxy far away... I once had the same problem with DNxHD. I removed AE and DNxHD. Then I reinstalled DNxHD and only after that I reinstalled AE. I did work out for me.

Hm, I think that's the way I did it ago...

Actually, I use AE CS4 portable version which I found in the net long time ago (I'm still on Win7 32-bit), but no any other issues with that.

Currently I use CineForm or UT video codec 4:2:2 BT.709. Is that wrong or I should use 4:2:2 .601?

This is embarrassing, but I'm having trouble making sense of all this. Can someone help?

I'm trying to use DNxHD to go between Vegas 12 and AE CC 2014 (on a Win7 x64 PC). I've tested various permutations and always end up with my DNxHD files looking washed out. If I render out other codecs (for example h264, or wmv) it looks like it's supposed to. And it always looks right inside of Vegas and AE, it's just when I view the results in VLC (or Quicktime) that it looks washed out.

For better or worse, my usual workflow is:

1) Do rough edit in Vegas, project settings are 1920x1080, 25,000 fps, progressive, 8-bit. Then I export any clips I want to mess with in AE as DNxHD mov files (RGB, 1080p/25 36-8bit).

2) Mess with them in AE, re-export as DNxHD with same settings. Still washed out. My AE project setting are at the default -- I've not messed with them at all. This means 8-bit color and color management set to "none". It doesn't matter if I change this to 32bpc.

3) Re-import to Vegas (same settings as above) for final edit and export as DNxHD (same settings). If I then render out DNxHD mov, it's washed out. If I do a wmv or mp4, it's fine. WTF?

I'm trying to keep this post short, but let me know if you need more info. I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Cheers, Lori

@lorilin I've had the same issue before. I don't know anything about Vegas but as for AE...it's not a problem at all. When you export from AE, you gotta go into DNxHD codec settings and in the color settings (or...profile) of this codec please check "Rec. 709" instead of "16-235".

If that doesn't help then there's something wrong with your project color profile (if you use color management in AE).

As for 8bpc in AE, I would recommend you to use 32bpc only. For color grading it matters a lot (at least in AE).

You guys RULE! Thanks for the help. @tonalt -- the first link did the trick (I have an nVidia graphics card). Now my DnxHD movs look like they're supposed to. Yippee!

@MikhailK, I will try setting Vegas and AE to 32bpc and see what happens. I've not messed with the default settings (8bpc) just because I didn't want to complicate things for myself.