Use display color management

Report · Jun 25, 2018

Hi,

I have a project set up in ProPhoto RGB color space.

In the viewer 'Use display color management' is active.

What 'use display color management' does?

Adobe:

When color management is on, the default behavior is for RGB pixel values to be converted to the color space of your computer monitor from the working color space for the project. Color appearance is preserved; RGB numbers are not preserved.

So if my monitor is set in sRGB color space but my project is in ProPhoto RBG, AE automatically converts the colors to preserve the appearance. At least this is what it should do.

What happens is: when I export the result is much more similar to the not 'use display color management' preview in the viewer.

In fact I have to work with 'use display color management' off, otherwise the exported video becomes much more desaturated.

Is it a normal behaviour or is there something messed-up here? Are my Nvidia settings wrong?

Below the difference plus the export.

Report · Jun 26, 2018

Nothing wrong. It just seems you do not understand color management at all and because of that your system is not set up properly to begin with. It totally makes no sense to enforce specific colors if your system is not calibrated and all that, especially at higher bit-depths.

Mylenium

Report · Jun 27, 2018

Thanks Mylenium,

so.. how do I calibrate my system? Do I need any special piece of software or hardware to do that?

And also.. shouldnt I work with both the 'Use display color management' active and a correct calibrated system?

Shouldn't be wrong to work without the 'Use display color management'?

Report · Jun 29, 2018

especially at higher bit-depths

At lower bit depths the issue is exactly the same.