Encoding in AE results in darker image than original
by Marc Brown
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May 18, 2008 at 8:33:48 am
I've tried a few different codecs from withing AE and the result is always the same. Much of my composition is pure white - as white as Notepad. But when I play the movies, that white is now a sort of off-white. Very obvious when compared to Notepad or other white things the monitor's displaying.
Is there some setting I need to pick in order to get around this quirk?
While I'm at it.. the Quicktime H.264 encoding thing gives two options: Single pass and multi pass. Unfortunately, one evidently cannot specify how _many_ passes, so it defaults to what I estimate to be 6 or 7 passes. Who the heck has the time to wait for that? Not me, even with a 19-second project. Is there a way of setting the number of passes? ;p
Re: Encoding in AE results in darker image than original by Simon Bonner on May 18, 2008 at 12:09:34 pm
Try reimporting the rendered footage and hovering your cursor over a white area. Doe the info panel register RGB scores of 255? If so, there's no problem with AE - it could just be a monitor problem. In that case, you could play with Adobe Gamma in your control panel to create a customised colour profile.
