Rendering a 32bit project to an 8Bit codec

[Walter Soyka]

[Martin Stacey] “do you think it is a bug then? i started to think it was a limitation with 32 bit. if you open up the 32bit render in photoshop it shows that flat red too. strange.”

I’d argue that any time the render doesn’t match the preview, it’s a bug.

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[Martin Stacey]

Yeah but i think it’s more of a limitation of 32bit comping.
in maya or vary you’d you an exposure filter to bring the 32bit image back down to an 8bit image. i just assumed AE was doing that automatically. but i was wrong! haha.

[Martin Stacey]

still 2 years later it frustrates the hell out of me that i can create colours in 32bit mode in AE that i cannot render to an 8 bit codec. it’s just mental.
surely by now someone has figured this out!

[Michael Szalapski]

I was messing with this issue a couple of years ago. As I recall, I rendered to a higher bit QuickTime file and then used QuickTime Pro to compress it to a deliverable file. The colors looked right then.

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[Martin Stacey]

yeah, i posted another message just cause it was annoying me so much and a guy responded to turn on simulate output too. i did and it does give you the same render as you see. still dont really understand why you can make a colour in AE that wont render, but at least i have a solution of sorts.