Rec709 Color Space?

[Eary_Chow]

@ecarlsenmedia

What the issue ultimately ended up being was that the View Transform was set to the default “Filmic” and not “Standard,” within Color Management in the Render Properties.

Don’t use Standard. The Standard option will render your image incorrectly. As you can see here:

I believe AE has a plugin for OCIO, you should be able to use that plugin to load up Blender’s OCIO config and use Filmic in AE.

@ecarlsenmedia

even though it seemed the original footage was Rec709, the way to get it all to match was to use sRGB color space in every other program

Again, colorspaces each has three components: Primaries, White Point (which chromaticity do you encode as R=G=B), and transfer function (like power function, or some other curves etc.)

sRGB uses the same primaries and white point (D65) as Rec.709, which means we can say sRGB and Rec.709 are only different in their transfer functions. Generally we can say Linear sRGB (sRGB with Linear tranfer function) = Linear Rec.709 (Rec.709 with Linear transfer function). Their relationship is closer than you think.

@ecarlsenmedia

Once I changed it to “Standard”, the colors matched perfectly.

This means unfortunately AE by default is not capable of handling open domain (0 to infinity) data like EXR, but again I have heard there is a plugin to load OCIO so you can give it a try. I haven’t tried it though.