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Apple Pro Res milky look in Quicktime
I have just started to work with HD footage and the file sizes are just massive. It’s a huge leap from SD and I’d like to limit filesize as much as possible. I am a graphic designer so I don’t do much long form if any.
I tried Apple Pro res and a 1.88 gb file was reduced very nicel to 217mb. Fantastic I thought. Then I looked at it in Quicktime and was shocked at the colour difference which appeared as a gamma shift. So a nicely contrasted image was now milky and very unsatisfactory.
However I viewed it in FCP and all was fine. I haven’t upgraded to the latest Quicktime yet, but is this a known issue.
Also on a different note what would be the best codec to render to that holds an alpha channel. I have in the past used png + alpha which hasn’t failed me, but recently I was working in a PC and Mac environment and there was a colour shift too with png viewed in Quicktime on a PC
all the best
rich
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1 Reply
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The best codec with alpha which keeps gamma intact (even cross platform!) is Sheer from BitJazz. Give it a try!
Regards,
Uli
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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