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Compressed quicktimes from Davinci
Hi
I was hoping that some of you could tell me what kind codec for webcompressed(max. 10 mb/minut) quicktimes you send to your clients for approval?
I’m not that statisfied with the color and gamma output of the direct MPEG-4 video and H.264 from Davinci Resolve.
An example could be commercial, that the clients client wants to see, but the person isn’t able to visit the post facility, so I need to upload it.
I must say that this is not something I normally do. The client would never get the look and feel of the colorgrade through a web-compressed quicktime.What do you do to maintain your color and gamma in a webcompressed quicktime?
/Tino Zidore
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3 Replies
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what about quicktime with jpeg compression?
anyway, h264 files are fine for me, if they play it with the right app (i always advise VLC)
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I’m usually sending out h264 for preview. Yes, there’s the small issue with gamma, but it is acceptable. Bigger problem is that you have no control over how and where the client is viewing the file.
It is very much about trust between the client and you. Depending on the client I might write small side-note about what has been done regards to grading. I think it is good to explain the look and tell the client why you did what you did! This gives the client comfort that you addressed all the issues and made the best possible result!
BTW – On Windows Resolve rendering to QT h264/mpeg4 is extremely slow. Resolve is using 32bit export process. So wise thing is to encode to something else and then use external software.
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And you could ad some still frames for better reference with more pixels in it.
It may give client better sense what is going on. Lets say you make a separate bin and grab frame from
every shot ? and then transform them to jpg or png externally.—
Margus
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