Premiere Pro to Vimeo gamma workflow woes

[Chris Shaw]

“why would it look as washed out in Vimeo if it plays fine in Windows Media Player?” That’s what I just put in my last post with the 3 examples.

What I’m saying is I know Quicktime can look washed out with h.264 files but if it’s fine in WMP why does it look crap when it’s on Vimeo?

[Ivan Myles]

Please post a link to your Vimeo file.

[Chris Shaw]

Sure here’s the video https://vimeo.com/72292245 the password is premiere.

[Ivan Myles]

[Chris Shaw] “why does it look crap when it’s on Vimeo?”

The Vimeo file looks like the clean images in your previous posts:

Frame 1620:
– Composite Video
– All Scopes
– Background
– Big Text
– Medium Text

Frame 1480:
– Composite Video
– All Scopes
– Background
– Black
– White

It is important to compare files in Premiere Pro, and preferably using the scopes for reference.

[Chris Shaw]

I’m sorry but that isn’t possible. I have attached a comparison of the colours from the Vimeo link I sent and the .MOV file with the Animation codec. The colours are completely different. It looks exactly the same on my iMac at work and my Macbook Pro.

[Ivan Myles]

Please download the Vimeo file and open it in Premiere Pro.

[Chris Shaw]

I just did and it looks fine but I don’t understand why there are issues on Vimeo? I’ve never had it before.

[Ivan Myles]

Your Mac computers might be using the QuickTime engine to play the video. It looks fine in IE and Chrome on my PCs.

[Chris Shaw]

You’re right, it looks fine on IE although I must admit I’d never touch that browser with a barge pole. Saying that I reckon alot of my clients and their users will be using it. I have been using Chrome for all my screengrabs so that’s not looking great. Here’s a comparison between IE and Chrome.

The main thing is I know it’s not the way I’m encoding things, so thank you for your patience and time and effort to establish this 😀

[Chris Shaw]

Also one last thing. I noticed that when I switch to the Flash player on Vimeo instead of the HTML5 version the colours look perfect, no matter what browser I’m in!