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H.264 codec very washed out
Hi guys!
I have this issue whenever i render out a quicktime H.264 codec… it always washes out the colors and lowers contrast. anyone know why this is? My client wants this codec as an output file I give him but I can’t get the colors to look like they do in my comp. any ideas?
thanks!
Frederic
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4 Replies
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Sure,
This has been discussed quite a bit.
First, open your mov file in quicktime. Click “window” “show movie properties” Select your video track and under the “visual settings” tab, change the transparency to “blend” and change the value from 50 to 100. Then, change the transparency to “straight alpha” and click the high quality check box on the right side. Then close the dialogue box and click file, save, to save the changes. The mov file should play with proper saturation and contrast.
Best of luck
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Hi Mike!
Thanks for your reply about that. So is it a problem with quicktime displaying it or the actual codec itself? I’m on a pc and using Quick Time alternative therefore I don’t even have quicktime installed and viewing all my mov files with media player classic, this problem is still occurring, theres no options I can find. But anyhow I guess I should just install quicktime itself (try to avoid that if I can most of the time)
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I am no expert on codecs, but I think that it is a problem with the interpretation of the transparency in the codec and the way the players read it. I am guessing that h.264 encodes the file with a default setting of dither and that is why you must manually change it in the player, which then writes the change to the file when you save it. There may be a setting under the codec panel in AFX to change the interpretation, but I have not found it. Check your player to see if you have any similar tools.
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Great thanks mike for your input. I appreciate it
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