quicktime color issue?

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

yep- there’s a bug:

https://vitrolite.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/quicktime_gamma_bug/

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Angelo Lorenzo]

This is not the Quicktime Gamma Bug. The gamma bug manifests itself as an actual change in brighness that you would see against the original in, say, After Effects once you re-imported the render.

This issue is just because Quicktime is just a crappy video player and doesn’t display color accurately. No two ways about it. I usually tell clients to download and preview files in VLC (plays slightly darker but nowhere near as off as Quicktime).

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[Cody Campbell]

thanks guys — at least I know i’m not crazy haha.

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[Erik Lindahl]

Things are better with QuickTime in OSX. One issue with VLC is that it isn’t color managed so especially on wide gamut screens colors will look very funky there.