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I need some exporting help please
Here is the situation. I am working on re cutting a trailer for a documentary. Before I got on the project, the trailer was exported as a h.264 codec file. The export was all interlaced. So I deinterlaced the trailer and exported it once again. I got rid of the interlacing but it seems like I had a loss in color saturation with the end result export. So, really my question is how do I go about keeping the original saturation? Should I just boost up saturation before I export, knowing that I will get some sort of desaturation because of exporting? If any one can lend some advice that would be great.
replied 17 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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H.264 is not an editing codec. Best bet is to change the H.264 to ProRes using Compresser, then edit with that. Searc the Cow on the workflow for that. Hopefully, your H.264 was made with a high data rate or your quality will suffer.
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