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Inconsistant color exporting from Motion 2
I created a colorful movie in MOTION2, then I exported it to a QT movie using several formats (i.e. 8-bit uncompressed, and H.264). The color of my new movie looked horribly washed out, the colors were flat. I investigated the colorsync utility, and switched to different calibration settings. Switching back and forth between APPLE RGB and CIE RGB, produced dramatic differences ONLY on the quicktime movie. Just for comparisons sake, I downloaded some sample H.264 movies from APPLE’s website and had it side-by-side with the movie I created. When switching back and forth again between calibration settings, it only made MY movies change with a dramatic effect.
The bottom line: After creating my OWN color profile and calibrating my 23″ cinema display, AND creating a movie from MOTION2, the saturation of the colors in my movie looked really washed out compared to the canvas window in Motion. So I don’t know if this is an OSX Problem, or a Quicktime problem, or maybe it’s something new entirely that I don’t understand.
Any ideas?
G5 Dual 2.7, 4gb, Nvidia 6800
OS X 10.4.1
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Kevin
Quick info on calibration for QuickTime Video, although you can use a Spyder to calibrate to a Video standard on a monitior, this only helps on non-Quicktiime Playback related viewing. The minute QuickTime playback kicks in it is remapping to broadcast video. A calibrated to video computer monitor would not be accurate.
Orlando Luna
Apple Certified Trainer Final Cut Pro – DVD Studio Pro – Shake – Motion -
Putting calibration aside, and using the default cinema display colorsync setup, my quicktime files are still washed out compared to the Motion canvas window. Only when I set my colorsync to APPLE RGB, did the quicktime file match the color of the Canvas window. In other words, the colorsync choices seem to dramatically affect the appearance of the quicktime movie, and not the motion canvas window, when you put them side by side. This did NOT happen in 10.3.9 and Motion 1. I hope I’m being clear, this is difficult to explain.
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i’ve seen this before. I believe it’s Quicktime problem.
We ran into the problem when using the Blackmagic codec. In QT Player the movie looked RGB.
And in final cut and motion it looked like 601.-Az
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