Rendered video is brighter than the preview

[Darby Edelen]

Are you using any color management for the project?

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Steve Roberts]

Did you try rendering a Quicktime movie then playing in Quicktime Player?

[David Brown]

Nope. The Color Management tab in the Output Module settings dialog says that it’s off.

[David Brown]

Thanks! I just downloaded Quicktime and rendered the project to a Quicktime Animation and everything appears to be normal. The video is pretty choppy, so I guess I need to choose a different compression format.

Anyway, is there any obvious reason why Quicktime is the only output format that doesn’t screw up my colors? (and don’t say “Because it’s made my Apple”)

[Serge Hamad]

Hi,

This phenomenon happens mostly because different codecs (DV, H264…) handle the luminance ranges differently by automatically converting them.

The cure is to use a codec like Animation (QT) or simply go for uncompressed just to mention a few.

If you really need to stick to a certain offending codec then use right before your final render an adjustment layer and apply the levels or curve filter to compensate the washed out look.

I am sure if you search the web for luminance range & codecs that you will find more detailed explanations.

Happy New Year;-)
Serge

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[Serge Hamad]

Me again;-) You are sure that your player’s brightness, contrast controls are not messed up right?

Just a thought.

Salut,
Serge

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[Ron Lindeboom]

As someone who clearly doesn’t like Apple (from visiting your site after seeing your little slap here in your post), we’re going to ask that you keep your PC Fanboyism out of the COW — just as we ask the Apple Fanboys to do the same.

This site is based on a belief that we could care less if you use Macs or PCs, Apple, Adobe, Autodesk, Avid or Anythingelse. It’s what you DO with the tools that counts here.

So leave the ‘tude at the door when you come here, okay?

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[David Brown]

Regardless of how it may have appeared, I was in no way trying to be a “PC fanboy”. It’s been my experience that any time something from Apple just works, I get responses like “Of course it does! ‘Cause Windows sucks!”. Perhaps I misjudged the maturity of your community. It’s not often that I find a forum where people actually act like adults.

Sorry if I offended you.

[David Brown]

Thanks for the info!

I’m fairly certain the settings are correct. I haven’t changed anything like that, nor can I find any places to change them.

However, I did run the nVidia color calibration wizard not long ago. It adjusts my monitor’s color settings whenever the nVidia Control Panels runs. Could it be that the color calibration doesn’t work with videos?

[Ron Lindeboom]

Yes, the COW is a whole different beastie, David.

It’s not often that you will get a Mac Rah-Rah on your case around here. In fact, across the COW, it’s more often that we see PC Fanboys. But they too, thankfully, are rare.

We work hard to keep it all off our boards and it’s one of the reasons that we are now insisting on real names in the forums. As the COW has grown to such a huge size, we have to work even harder to keep the site from degenerating with this kind of noise.

The exception to this rule is found in Apple-Only or in PC-only forums. Users from the other camp should avoid these “partisan camps” at all costs.

:o)

But when it comes to tools that span multiple OS platforms, we insist on decorum and respect.

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