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Lost in the Darks?
I’m having troubles where what I see in my comp window in AE doesnt look the same as what I get when I render it out. Specifically, my darks are a lot darker and more subtle in AE, and the render brightens them up a lot. In this image, I brought the rendered mov into the AE comp, and masked so AE preview is up top, and the render is on the bottom half.
I’m rendering to a Quicktime Motion JPEG A. I feel like I have used this codec a bunch and never noticed a problem with it, but maybe most of my stuff isnt this dark?
It’s irksome.
In point of fact I kind of like the brightened up version, but its pretty hard to play to a guess while your setting up.
Any tips would be appreciated…
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[Ocean Byrne] “I’m having troubles where what I see in my comp window in AE doesnt look the same as what I get when I render it out”
Are you watching the file in Quicktime Player?
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It is brighter r looking in the quicktime player, yes.
But it is also brighter if I drag the .mov into AE, and then bring it in on top of the very comp that rendered it.
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Try checking the box “Match Legacy After Effects Quicktime Gamma Adjustments” in your project settings.
Also a heads up, M-Jpeg A is considered a deprecated codec by Apple. These days, I use photo-jpeg instead.
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Its your background color. You are probably using ae background and not an actual layer. which affects the adjustment layers if u have them.
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Thanks guys, I think you are all right.
I am just using an AE black bg, and while I only have 1 adjustment layer for a portion of the clip, I have a lot of layers set to Screen or Add and I think they might prefer a Solid black layer, to the comp BG. (I’ve also been up against that when I solo some of my subtle layers I can’t see them at all, but they do show up in the whole comp.)
I tried Photo JPEG and it seems to work better, though I was trying a bunch of different things and got confused. I think I also set Straight as opposed to Premultiply, thought seeing as how I’m not outputing an alpha should that even matter?
As to my final deliverable, it’s kind of up in the air? H264 or .wmv’s seem to be good in terms of being small to email this pretty long video, and still have it look good. In the end though they might do some editing and add audio, in which case maybe they want a less compressed format? Any tips on your preferred output codecs? Like your favorite that is small and looks good, and you favorite to send to a fellow professional who may have to work with it more? (assuming I can call myself that)
Thanks guys
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