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washed out colors after render
I’m finding that when I render out stuff in AE in which I use full frame video footage, that the rendered quicktime has a more washed out appearance than the original footage and thereby doesn’t match –even when I do nothing to the footage. Any thoughts on this?
Greg
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Which codec are you using for export? H.264 can cause washed out colors. Try exporting the quicktime with the Animation codec or Photo-JPEG.
Dino Muhic – Media Producer
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Sounds like I am having a similar problem. I’ve imported DVCPro HD footage into an after effects 8 project and rendering out quicktime .mov using lossless-animation. What happens is the footage starts off with the correct colors, then drops the brightness levels way down.
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There’s some information about gamma problems and QuickTime in After Effects Help and in some documents that it links to:
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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However, for RGB codecs, 2.2 is not often the correct value. This means that files that use RGB codecs (such as Animation or None) are over-corrected and look washed out or too light.
If you enable the Match Legacy After Effects QuickTime Gamma Adjustments option in the Project Settings in After Effects CS3, then it will not tag QuickTime files with the metadata tag when it renders them.
edit MediaCoreQTGammaRules.xml so that your codecs are tagged or not with 2.2 gamma. That’s what I call automatic fixing!
https://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402801&sliceId=1
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