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Rendering Red
Whenever I render out in after effects using the render queue or export (usually render queue) anything the colour of red is pixelated, not by a huge amount,but you can definitely notice it compared to the other colors. ive tried using lots of different formats to save out as, but it always does it, even when i rendered out a jpeg sequence.
does anyone know why this is? ive tried it on a few computers and get the same results, its not just one project, ive encountered this problem alot. Even at high quality renders it still does it, any suggestions? -
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Even a TGA sequence? Quicktime Animation?
I ask because red 255-0-0 doesn’t compress well in a lot of video formats because they’re designed to work well with real-life colours, which aren’t as pure.
Anybody else?
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Red IS a nasty colour. Because of the wavelength and the broadcast frequency, most people avoid it like the plague. It hums on tube tvs, bleeds on analog signals and pixelates on digital compressions.
The best thing to do is notch it down 10 to 20 RGB points.
You can desatch just the red as well.
I run into problems when “creatives” I use the term loosely, and clients come up with grandiose ideas on using red in their spots. all that happens is a compression nightmare.
A lot of the time i tweak it down past legal limits. They can’t tell and if anyone complains I just bring up the term legal and illegal and it just scares em silly.
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