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Output settings for web upload (videos coming out dark on web)
It would seem a lot of the video upload services out there (youtube, etc) make videos extremely dark when re-encoding them. I’m having a big problem with this as it’s causing some of my videos to lose a ton of detail, and/or become nearly unwatchable.
What settings should I be playing with to fix this? Should I be cranking up the brightness/contrast of my videos, or adjusting the color settings?
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Make a brightness/contrast template to show the web-color in your preview window, use as preview FX. Remember to unhook before rendering.
Render one of the Media generator – Test, upload to web. Make the template so your preview correspond to the web video.
Sorry for the dobblepost.
odd magne nilsen
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> It would seem a lot of the video upload services out there (youtube, etc) make videos extremely dark when re-encoding them.
I have not experienced this at all with YouTube or Vimeo. I render my YouTube videos using the Sony AVC encoder with the “Internet 16:9 HD 30p” preset and they look exactly as I intended them.
Here is an example from YouTube:
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Yeah mine looks fine on light scenes (which it looks like most of your video is), it’s dark scenes that are the real problem.
I am also using Sony AVC. Compare these two screenshots, which each have a section of my video side by side in vegas and in youtube.
https://www.clan-loh.com/images/youtube/BoW9.JPG
https://www.clan-loh.com/images/youtube/static.JPGWhen you say you’re using the Internet 16:9 HD 30p preset, where are you setting the preset?
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Wow, those are some subtle blacks. I assume that YouTube is loosing them when it re-encodes. The Internet 16:9 HD 30p setting is in Vegas Pro 9.0. I see that you’re using the Movie Studio 9 version which is probably why you don’t have them.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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What do you mean by subtle blacks, and is there something I can do to fix them so youtube doesn’t lose them?
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> What do you mean by subtle blacks
Just that at first glance I thought both images were black. Then I looked really close at the before image and saw the details. I’m not sure what you can do about this.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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