Davinci resolve better quality in preview and rendering, why?

[Peetb]

Hi there,

i don't know why but when I import my footage in Davinci Resolve for grading the quality of the footage is better than after effects or premiere pro, in davinci resolve there is more details.

I don't know if we can see correctly on the screenshots below, the first one is from Davinci, the second pic from After effects.

I tried to set the project in 16 or 32 bit, but same result. The comp in after effects has been created directly form the footage so no descaling.

I hope you have a solution 🙂

[Rick Gerard]

Without seeing your settings and knowing what kind of color correction and monitor color calibration you are using it's pretty hard to get anything from those screenshots. There could be a number of issues we can't see because no workflow details have been provided.

[Peetb]

Thanks Rick

those are raw footage with no color correction. Not sure if the monitor is relevant here as these pictures are taken inside Windows with the tool 'snipping tool'.

Which settings are necessary to look at? I just imported the raw footage into after effects and took a screenshot.

here is a omplete view of after effects

[Rick Gerard]

Check the Project settings:

There are a huge number of Working Space options available. You just have to choose the right one so they match across PPro, AE and Davinci:

Color Calibration is also critical when trying to judge color. Davinci and AE have different ways of looking at your monitor profiles and you have to make sure they match.

Red footage (R3D files) can also have color profiles embedded in the footage that Davinci may read but they may or may not show up in Premiere Pro.  You need to match everything if you are going to do color grading and not just some basic color correction. On a recent project, I used all three apps on some 8K R3D files and had no preview or quality issues at all. Everything matched just fine and the EXR sequences that I exported with the effects and sent to the colorist for final grading were all just fine. 

The footage also looks quite noisy. 

Davinci may be filtering out some of that noise in the preview but the actual pixels should be the same.

Looking at your original images the one from Resolve had a lot more noise than the one from After Effects.

[Peetb]

ok, the problem was the color space, I had to deactivate the color space in after effects.

Thank you