Eye popping color in Resolve-fades after compression?

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Eye popping color in Resolve-fades after compression?

Posted by Matt Stoltz on May 27, 2016 at 2:02 am

Hey all

So I know Resolve presents colors in an awesome way. When I grade everything look vibrant, rick blacks and so forth. But what is the trick to maintain that nice color when compressing it for the web. Quicktime X just makes it dull and flat sometimes and the client comes back and says can I add more saturation.

i also ask because when I watch movie trailers and downloaded movies in Quicktime -they seem to be very colorful as well-

what am I missing in my workflow?

thanks

Matt

Matt Stoltz replied 10 years ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
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Karsten Fischer
May 27, 2016 at 7:07 am

Maybe something like this: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/277/34925
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Matt Stoltz
May 27, 2016 at 1:13 pm

hey -YES exactly like that. Ok I understood a little of what he meant but how do you check all that. whats the trick.

thanks for your help

matt
Joseph Owens
May 27, 2016 at 10:52 pm

If it is my post, I’ve added an update.

jPo

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Karsten Fischer
May 30, 2016 at 7:43 am

Look at these settings in Color Management in the project settings:

Resolve can manage that for you if you are in a hurry or working local TV news, which means you’re always in a hurry. Otherwise, just as Joseph pointed out, make sure your levels are within 64-940 since everything above or below is getting clipped.

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Matt Stoltz
May 31, 2016 at 4:21 pm

hey Karsten

ok i looked at those settings and Input and output color spaced are greyed out –they are set on 709 2.4 but i can’t change them

Joesph -thanks for the update -much appreciated

matt
Karsten Fischer
June 1, 2016 at 9:27 am

Hi Matt,

that certainly is unexpected. OK, if you don’t care about proper levels for broadcast you can, of course, go to the deliver page in Resolve and tweak the output settings to export the full data levels (in the 12.5 beta you’ll find those within the video panel under advanced settings) instead of “Auto”.

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Matt Stoltz
June 3, 2016 at 11:47 pm

Yes I look at the output options and I set the video levels to 64 and 960 option I took it off auto but there was no option to set the output for rec709 gamma 2.4 -so I hope I did it right –

Now when I Bring it into Premier cc 15 will my video levels automatically be set like that or do I to check something else in premiere

Thanks

Matt

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