QuickTime and color profiles

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QuickTime and color profiles

Hi - I calibrate my monitor using the Spyder 2 suite, and all of my color aware software seems to get along and display color quite nicely (PhotoShop, Lightroom, iMatch), and non color aware software does great with sRGB images (ie, image viewer), the one odd ball is QT. QT seems to be using an incorrect profile, when I playback any content, be it downloaded content (trailers), color or non color managed images, the color is clearly way off. If I export my frames, then open them in PhotoShop, they come in looking correctly, and have no profile associated with them, same if I export to another format (*.avi) it looks great. Is QT color aware, can I force it to use another profile?

Thanks for any help

Dual Xeon 3.06 home build, Windows XP Pro

Posted on Oct 24, 2006 11:43 AM

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tuttle5 Author

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Oct 24, 2006 12:20 PM in response to tuttle5

Sorry, I should have included in my first post, although I am using forceware drivers, they are updated to the 91.xx series, so the problem I am experiencing is not the color inversion issues people were seeing with the older versions of the forceware drivers, this appears to be a color space issue.

Thanks again.

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tuttle5 Author

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Nov 9, 2006 1:17 PM in response to tuttle5

Hmm, I guess the answer is that QT pro just isn't pro at all, as it's color management policy is to throw away any embedded profile and display it in the local monitor profile which will insure incorrect color on every computer.

So, any suggestions for a non Apple Quicktime replacement?

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Nov 9, 2006 1:28 PM in response to tuttle5

I have a large avi file that I wanted to import into Quicktime (same problem on MAC -10.4+, qt7 or Windows XP). When I do that the colors are WAY off. Exporting to DV on Windows, then importing into quicktime is ok. But the windows movie maker wants to alter the aspect ration.

Is this the same color problem you're having?

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