[James Toppin]

I think i’ve figured out that one of the main problems was making the clips a little bit transparent in order to make the scene look dark like being i a dark room. But now how do i apply a natural dark effect to my video without using transparency? using the “brightness and contrast” effect slider only makes the colors look deeper rather than actually shrouding the scene in darkness.

[James Toppin]

I knew that the gradients where messed up because they already look messed up when i see them in sony vegas so that isn’t the problem, the problem is the “jpeg artifacts” appearing all over the video regardless of if there is a gradient there or not.

For example:

In that shot, those weird dark lines appear spontaniously for no reason and there are similar problems all over the video.

Another example:

The wall is covered in jpeg artifacts when it just meant to be a flat brown wall.

When i upload the video to youtube, it makes my animation look like 360p when set to 1080p! It is really depressing to be honest. What else can i do?

[James Toppin]

The project properties:

The file properties:

And i usually render in “Internet 1280×720 30p” under “Sony AVC/MVC” but again, i’ve tried rendering in all the possible formats.