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Color Saturation and Exporting Problems
Not sure if this is an exporting issue, but when i increase the saturation on my footage, using 3-way color correction, my footage becomes extremely interlaced. color jumps out extremely, to the point that it looks a bit pixelated. Hope this makes sense. Is there a way of “SUPER” rendering this to decrease this issue?
Thanx in Advance.
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[Uriel Reyes] “Hope this makes sense”
Not really. Without knowing what codecs, sequence settings, monitoring and details on how you are exporting, we can’t begin to guess.
What you describe is not normal.
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newbie here. guess i have everything in easy setup.
Sequence Settings: 720×480 NTSC DV (3:2), pixel aspect ration NTSC-CCIR 601 DV(720×480)
QuickTime video Settings: Compressor: DV/DVCPRO-NTSCExport Settings:
Using QuickTime Conversion: Using h.264 compression, looks way sharper that DV/DVCPRO NTSC compressor. Key Frames: ALL; Compressor Quality: Best
Then I deinterlace the video in size.I used a canon xha1; 24fps, Standard Definition.
Hope this helps.
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DV codec is not a good codec for color grading. Did you shoot DV or just downconvert from the HDV with the camera? DV will pixelate badly on reds if you boost color sat. Applying a 4.1.1 Chroma smoothing plugin before the 3 way might also help.
You will get a better result if you copy the timeline into a ProRes 422 sequence to render. Also Compressor should give a better result than quicktime conversion, so you export a quicktime movie using current settings from the ProRes sequence and then experiment with Compressor presets for H264.
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Michael;
You’re Awesome. Will try out your tips.
Thank You.
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Also, if your h264 exports are looking \”way sharper\” then a DV/DVCPRO one, you probably need to turn on the \”always use high quality video setting\” in your QuickTime player preferences.
Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto
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