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Color Change And Quality Loss After Rendering In After Effects
so this is my problem..
The color changes after i render my video!?
The Footage seems to be really close to the project coloring but the Text (font) changes color alot more! Its Really really off when i play the video thew quick time and realplayer.. windows media player is the only one that gets really close to the project coloring. Also it seems i lose the tiniest bit of video quality!?Process
-I set the project up with color management (SRGB) 16bit
-I used Canon t2i 1920/1080 camera ( I dont know the color management settings for my footage?)
-then pre-render..make sure color management is on SRGB (AVI) then render it
-put video into adobe encoder and render youtube setting with 5.1 level and Vbr-2pass(using this video for youtube)
What am i doing wrong?!! please help me 🙁
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9 Replies
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Two screenshots — full-res in AE, full-res compressed — would be helpful. Can you post those for us?
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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This is uncompressed in after effects
And this is compressed (windows media is the player)
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Any help please!!!!!!!! 🙁
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Here are some thoughts:
1. Highly-saturated colors often receive ill treatment from many codecs, which are designed to work with more “naturally-occurring” colors (flesh tones, earth tones, etc).
2. Different players will interpret colors differently. I rarely hear anyone praising WMP’s ability to render color.
3. Different screens and OS’s will interpret colors in different ways. So if you’re uploading to youtube, getting it close is preferable to getting it exact. Maybe I’m a softy, but I think the color you’re seeing is acceptable for youtube.
None of these are very satisfactory answers, I suppose. But I’m pretty sure this isn’t about AE per se and more about codecs, filetypes, etc — AE being a part of the pipeline but not the source of the assumed problem.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Thanks a lot for the reply guys!!
I Am using Adobe After Effects Cs5 so I think we can rule that out..
As for the footage. It came out of Canon t2i ( QuickTime mov.)So i don’t know what to say. maybe a different codec when i render out of adobe encoder?
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DIfferent codecs would be a good place to start. You’d also want to experiment with different bitrates.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Thanks Ben. I think i will try some diffent codecs other then the h264. any suggestions on the next best thing for youtube? and the project was at 16bit.
One thing tho, I uploaded a small clip of the video on youtube to see what the color looks like. and it was almost EXACTLY like the project coloring!?? (It looks great!) and i uploaded from a different computer to! (not the one i made the project with) So could it just be the Windows player that’s tricking me?
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You have rightly pointed out the issue. Point no 2 has a great impact in change of color. I have three different screenshots.
1st one is the AECS Composition Window.
2nd is the H.264 conversion in AECS5.5 and Played in WMP
3rd is the H.264 conversion in AECS5.5 and Played in VLCNow it may be clear to the novice shooters like me.
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You have rightly pointed out the issue. Point no 2 has a great impact in change of color. I have three different screenshots.
1st one is the AECS Composition Window.
2nd is the H.264 conversion in AECS5.5 and Played in WMP
3rd is the H.264 conversion in AECS5.5 and Played in VLCNow it may be clear to the novice shooters like me.
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