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Export Issue (Unwanted Brigthening of Output)
I’m trying to export clips from a project I’m working on to sell on my website. When I export through Media Encoder the image is being automatically brightened and I’m losing the depth in my black levels and all my colors are looking washed out. I want the finalized file to be a h.264 .mp4. The file looks perfect if I export the video as an .avi through export movie, but any other export type seems to mess things up. I tried re-importing the video and exporting, but the same problem happens. I even tried exporting the avi, bringing it into a new project and exporting, but it’s still washing out my colors. Is there an auto brighten function that’s enabled somewhere or is it looking at my file and deciding it’s too dark and automatically brightens it? The video is an instructional video in an all black room, most of the scene is black except for the instructor who’s lit. It’s almost like a cheap brighten effect has been added to my output. What can I do?
Thanks!
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Do it in h.264 quicktime MOV
Export>Movie QT H.264
That should give you a beautiful image.
mp4 is whack. mov files on the net, everyone wants to download it while working and save it on desktop as mov then watch it when they have a break.
– Jon 🙂How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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I mean with Adobe Encoder. QT with H.264 compressor.
It looks fine and way small size.
– Jon 😉How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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I tried that as the output option and ended up with the same brightening problem. I even tried quicktime .mov output from from the export box and had the same problem. The only output format that doesn’t do it is .avi. It’s a really weird problem and I’m really curious why it’s happening. Thanks for the response.
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Did you work out your issue Peter? I have the same problem – h264, mpeg 2, xvid avi, divx avi, cinepak avi, all compressions I try exporting lose contrast in every player. Even uncompressed looks wrong in VLC and Media Player Classic. Only uncompressed avi played in Quicktime doesn’t suffer this problem.
What’s going on here?
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I’m having the same issue as well and although I’ve found plenty of posts, there are not any clear answers. Since the Premiere preview window looks great, modifying the levels manually with effects isn’t the right answer. As soon as I go into the Adobe Encoder (even before compression), the preview there has black levels are not as low as they should be. What gives?
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I’d love to say that I solved the problem, but I have given up on it for the moment. I tried everything I could think of and no luck. If anyone figures something out I’d love to hear about the solution.
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Ok here is my experience/Frustration with the washed out blacks problem. I am fairly new to premiere cs3
software. I had to do a slide show video in premiere pro cs3, with titles, pictures(.jpeg), transitions, and music(.mp3)for someone at work. For the final project I wanted to burn to a dvd. So the format will be mpeg-2 dvd.
Computer is a 939-AMD athlon64-3400, 2 sata drives in raid0, 2gigs of ram, and a nvidia 7600gs-512mb-AGP video card. WinXP with SP2. Adobe Premiere pro cs3.
I got the project completed and tried exporting to a quicktime movie first, normal quality, and H.264 codec. I
got the washed out, or really grayed out blacks. I think I tried this 10 different ways by changing the settings. So I just tried the export to mpeg-2 DVD. Make sure dvd multiplexing is checked if you want the audio and video in one file. So after the encoding I went to view this file. It had the greyed or washed out look…But I burnt it to the dvd anyway just to check it on the TV. When I played it back on the tv the blacks were ok. So reading though some other fourms I found that NTSC format will look greyed out on a pc. I was like fine I can live with that but what about the quicktime and windows media file problem?After some hours of messing with this I checked my pc’s video card settings. I have the force ware driver release 169.21 . Turns out if you have a newer Nvida video card (I dont know about ATI cards software, but check this it may have a similar setting), go to nvidia control panel display settings menu, at the bottom on left colum, there is a setting for “color” for tv-and video display. I turned that off becuse it was over contrasting and brightening the output for all the video on my computer-even regular movies. As soon as I did this the video in windows media and quicktime exports looked fine from Adobe Premiere CS3. I also copied the quicktime and windows media exports to my laptop and they looked ok on there. Hopefully this might help some people. If I find out anything else with future video projects I will post.
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[David VanCura] ”
After some hours of messing with this I checked my pc’s video card settings. I have the force ware driver release 169.21 . Turns out if you have a newer Nvida video card (I dont know about ATI cards software, but check this it may have a similar setting), go to nvidia control panel display settings menu, at the bottom on left colum, there is a setting for “color” for tv-and video display. I turned that off becuse it was over contrasting and brightening the output for all the video on my computer-even regular movies. As soon as I did this the video in windows media and quicktime exports looked fine from Adobe Premiere CS3. I also copied the quicktime and windows media exports to my laptop and they looked ok on there. Hopefully this might help some people. If I find out anything else with future video projects I will post.”Excelling Job man! Bravo! This is the answer to my prayers. Worked like a charm and saved alot of grief before circulating dark noob-like compressions. Thanks!
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