Pictures imported in video oversaturated

[Jeff Schroeder]

The pixel format setting is not connected to quality in the sense that we are used to. It has to do with the math when calculating fine details in certain types of video formats. This is a setting better explained by John Rofrano our resident technical genius.

Always use 8-bit unless the specific codec has issues that require 32-bit.

Jeff

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[Jeff Schroeder]

See this post by John…
forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/925942

Windows 7 64-bit, ASUS P6X58D, i7 960 3.20GHz, 24.0GB DDR3, 12TB connected storage
http://www.narrowroadmedia.com

[Thomas Schwiegelhofer]

Thanks, Jeff, as I said this fixes the problems with the levels (blackpoint/Whitepoint), but nothing more.

The pictures are still way too oversaturated on my display and after analyzing this it is exactly this, the wide-gamut display and that youtube/Quicktime etc are no color-managed applications.

If I “cut” my display to sRGB colour space directly on the display the pictures look good in quicktime.

[Ian Macleod]

Better late than never – I’ve only just been reading this thread because I was having a similar problem. It turned out I had inadvertently screwed up all my default settings for layout, colour correction etc.

For any other latecomers, the solution for me, using Sony Vegas Pro 12, was to reset all settings to original settings. Go here to see how:

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110319175316AAw4T4H

Good luck.