• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  H.264 in final cut express 3.5

  Posted by Lance Williams on May 20, 2011 at 1:28 am

  I’m pretty new to film post production so bare with me. I’ve started making short videos for the company I work for that we then upload to youtube. All we have at work is FCExpress 3.5 and they aren’t will to upgrade yet. My problem is when I export my video for web I can’t get the quality I want.

  When I use Quicktime conversion H.264 the colors and contrast come out very bland. It’s like it just sucks the color right out.
  If I use Quicktime conversion photo-jpeg the colors and contrast come out great, but then after youtube processes it it blows all the highlights out.

  for example: here is the h.264 version of a video https://youtu.be/_AZMadieuhQ

  and here is a photo jpeg version
  https://youtu.be/Ce9XUSIkQCo

  and yes the place I work is kinda weird, but it’s a job.

  Is the h.264 codec in FCE 3.5 just old and outdated? Will upgrading to FCE 4 help?

  Lance Williams replied 15 years, 2 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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