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Yeah, that is way nastier than any youtube screwup I’ve ever encountered. I can’t offer any advice beyond what the pros here have suggested. But I just wanted to point out that the problem I had with skin tone and youtube, I also encountered with Vimeo. Also one of the guys said when you “export” it automatically opens Encoder. I’m sure he meant to say “Queue” opens Media Encoder. “Export” causes Premiere Pro to do the dirty work, and you can’t use it for anything else until the export ends. I’m positive he knows that, he just had a brain fart.
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I know what you’re talking about and I agree, but the examples I’m talking about go beyond “artistic license” into just plain bad. I think the old H&R Block commercials from a year or two ago are a good example.
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Thanks, Tero. I have to admit I have noticed in the past work done by professionals that looks terrible (commercials that are too flat or shows that are too contrasty), so it’s not just me, and it’s not such an easy thing to perfect. Cheers.
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Wow, from nothing to 4 responses to respond to. OK…
Joe Barta IV: The original footage is just my son and me, h264, green screened against a picture of a parking garage. Sequence settings are the same as always, 1080p 23.976 fps, square pixels. Not sure what else to include. Export settings same as always, h264, min bitrate 30 mbps.
I know about youtube compression, but the youtube video looked almost the same as the original footage on my computer “monitor”, nowhere near the same on my bedroom tv. The greenscreen images of my son and me were overly sharp, and the effect of the “lighting” was non-existent, compared to the video I included in this thread. Also, I’ve watched other people’s videos on the tv app and they look fine. It has to be my (lack of) post production skills.
Tero: I added “Lights” in After Effects which you can see in the included video, which don’t show up on the bedroom tv. They’re there but there’s no shadows cast on my son like in the video above. And, as I stated above, the green screen footage was way too oversharpened, which is not evident on the above video (on my computer monitor, anyway). I’m sure there’s a bunch of technical differences between tv’s but that brings me back to my original question. How do you compensate for that to ensure your video looks good regardless what tv it’s playing on?
P.S. I will listen to that link you provided.
Chris Wright: I didn’t know about this profile converter. I’ll try it out. As for calibration, neither tv has been calibrated (I’ve never calibrated my tv’s, I do it by eye and get satisfactory results). But if I’m watching a tv show downstairs, then go to my bedroom to watch the rest of it, I don’t think “Ew, man, that looks terrible!” The same show on all 4 tv’s looks basically the same, nowhere near as drastic a difference as I saw with this video.
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Ah! Once you used the word gradient it became much clearer to me. Now, my lowly D5500 does take 12 (and 14?) bit pictures. That’s in RAW, so I’m going to guess that doesn’t necessarily mean it does 12 bit video as well. I’m just going to go google it but I’m guessing it probably puts out 8 bit color so, bottom line, I don’t need to check those “Maximum” checkboxes.
Thanks for the info and the link!
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Hey, I ain’t #4 on the forum Wall of Fame for nothin’!
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ok, I read the link. The only thing I’m not sure of is exactly what is considered “low color depth”? Should I assume (remember, I’m just a home hobbyist) that my Nikon D5500 produces “low color depth”, in comparison to a RED or Black Magic camera? Or is low color depth present in video that was merely shot in poor light?
No rush. This is more just out of curiosity than trying to meet a deadline. btw, I did leave off maximum bit depth and maximum rendering and I didn’t see much difference in rendering time compared to the same clip with both checked.
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I’ve had this problem before, but it was on a compilation video I made of previously rendered mp4 clips. Have you downloaded and installed the latest Premiere Pro update? It just came out yesterday. Maybe that will have fixed the problem.
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You can also go here for updates that sometimes come out before creative cloud lists them. Click on the name to download, on the “Release notes” link for all the info on what the new update does. Have to point out, again, that this is not a pirate site, it is an Adobe partnership site and they have full permission to provide links to download software trials as well as updates.
https://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cc-2015-updates-links-windows.html
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There are two “Maximum Render…” settings. Are you saying neither one needs to be checked if not upscaling?