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frankdrawzzz
Participant
February 24, 2026

With all the same settings for import, project and render, the colors look different for me and a coworker.

  • February 24, 2026
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Hi. I work in post. We usually import an image sequence of cr2 / raw footage into After Effects, it shows a preview on the Camera Raw window, where we leave everything as it is by default, with Adobe Color profile.

The producer let us know that my renders were looking a bit more desaturated and kind of dark, while my coworker's was just as expected, bright and vivid colors.

 

 

We rendered in Quicktime, with Apple ProRes 4444, we double checked all of our settings, everything was the same. The only different thing was the AE version. He was working with 2025 (25.1) and I was working with 2026 (26.0). I downloaded a previous AE version, imported the footage and it looked just fine.

Overall, this seems to be a specific 2026 version problem. Please fix this asap. Luckily, we found a way for importing all my work into a past version of AE and it was an instant fix, otherwise it would have been a problem for the person working the color after me.

Thanks.

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nishu_kush
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 24, 2026

That’s not ideal. Do you mind sharing more details? Are you and your colleague using Mac or Windows? If possible, can you share a sample media and After Effects project file so we can try to replicate the issue on our end? Feel free to share via DM if you prefer not to share them publicly.

Looking forward to your response.

 

Thanks,

Nishu

frankdrawzzz
Participant
February 24, 2026

Hey! Thanks for replying. We’re both working on Windows, our PCs have very similar specs overall. About the file, I don’t think I’m allowed to share the footage (confidentiality reasons), but I tried with different cr2 files I had from previous projects with different people and the same thing happened :/ Here’s another comparison with a different cr2 sequence. Again, this seems to only be happening with 2026 version…