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H.264 color/saturation conversion
Hello,
When converting a movie to H.264, it kinda takes a toll on the overall saturation of the movie.
I’m wondering if someone knows a preferred way of dealing with this. Eg balancing this with a filter from Effect > Color Correction. So the movie preview within AE might become over saturated, but when converted to H264, it would look good.
I’m sure I can go over and try all the filters on a trial and error way, but maybe someone knows the already “established” way of doing this?
Thanks!
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This is just a guess, since I can’t see what you’re seeing, but I bet that you’re seeing a commonly known problem with gamma (not saturation) problems with QuickTime movies encoded with the H.264 codec.
There’s some explanation and some links to more information about this Quicktime/gamma bugaboo in the “Gamma and tone response” section of After Effects Help.
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Thanks for the link, Todd. Although it’s a tad over my head. Also, I’m not concerned about the gamma in QT. After I export my movie using lossless QT animation, it looks the same as in AE – hence it’s not compressed. The shift happens after compressing it with H.264. I am not using AE for the compression itself.
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