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  After Effects Quicktime too Bright on DVD

  Posted by Foznot on January 9, 2006 at 7:32 pm

  After building an animation in AE and putting it on a DVD the animation looks blown out. The quicktime file looks fine but when I viewed on tv it didn’t look right. Any suggestions?

  Accountneedsrealnameupdate replied 20 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Chris Smith

  January 9, 2006 at 9:40 pm

  Are other DVD’s brighter than you would expect in the same player/TV?

  Is the contrast increased, decreased, or the same and just brighter overall?

  Chris Smith
  https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com
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  Mstleger

  January 9, 2006 at 10:33 pm

  did you preview it on an ntsc monitor in ae? I never trust a computer monitor. The gamma just is nothing like a real monitor.
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  Accountneedsrealnameupdate

  January 9, 2006 at 11:14 pm

  There is a known luma bug with Quicktime RGB to YUV conversion, we have seen it when encoding from Animation codec and photojpeg codecs, with the MPEG2 files ending up way too bright. As a workaround we encode from a YUV codec instead (we use the Blackmagic codec) I’m sure you could work out a levels correction to apply to your renders before encoding if you can’t do the uncompressed YUV source file, I think it’s just the gamma but not sure, I’d compress a couple of test cards, rip out a couple of frames and determine the correction.
  Let me know if you have any other questions.
  Glenn Stewart
  1k studios

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