Quicktime Pro - H.264 and others washed out?

#1

I tried outputting my reel from QuicktimePro yesterday after upgrading to take advantage of H.264 etc. I noticed though that my output movies in H.264, MPEG4 and Sorensen all looked kind of ‘washed out’, like the colours were’nt as vibrant as originally. I thought it might be due to the reduced resolution and tried a test at same size as the source but the problem remained. I also tried adjusting the brightness/contrast in the Quicktime filter settings to limited success.

Has anyone encountered similar problems with either Quicktime or these codecs and found a way around it?

#2

Have you checked the gamma setting (if there is one, I haven’t upgraded yet). I remember a problem where Quicktime would hard-encode the gamma setting to the file, so if you view it on a mac (gamma 1.8) versus PC (gamma 2.2) the colors would be totally different.

#3

Have you checked the gamma setting (if there is one, I haven’t upgraded yet). I remember a problem where Quicktime would hard-encode the gamma setting to the file, so if you view it on a mac (gamma 1.8) versus PC (gamma 2.2) the colors would be totally different.

#4

Cameo!

Yeah, man. I’ve noticed the same thing – a ‘washed out’ look via both Combustion and Premiere – BUT, interestingly, when I export the exact same video from After Effects it more closely matches the original, uncompressed color depth. However, it seems as if AE is taking some kind of extra step during rendering (I don’t use AE enough to understand the whole process.)

I didn’t play with gamma settings, etc. Don’t know much about that (My tests were PC only, viewed on both digital and analog monitors.)

Also of note, the file sizes of the 3 different final .mov is different. What sense that makes, I don’t know.

Probably not all that helpful, but yeah – I’ve noticed it, too.

Cool.

#5

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