H264 Brightness issue.. Any Ideas?

[curtisbouvier]

Using Adobe Premier Pro 2.0, having a slight problem with H.264 codec..

It doesn't matter what I save, whether it's a picture or a video, the compression seems to remove alot of brightness and contrast from my work, and there doesn't seem to be a way of correcting this issue, since there is no configuration menue.. other than a quality slider that goes from 0% -100% (doesn't make a difference what percent I use)

If I save at BMP, or PNG, or JPEG or etc, they dont lose any contrast / brightness, but the file is 10X larger.

Any one have any idea's as to what the problem is with H264?

Here is a screenshot showing exactly what I mean:

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2057/h264wrongcg5.jpg

[rawfa]

I'm having the exact same problem. The only difference is that is happens with ANY format I try to export (mpeg, quicktime, avi, etc). It's a real pain in the arse. You never end up with the footahe looking like you want it to look. I still don't know how to solve this. What I've been doing is to give it more contrast than I would usualy give and I then I export only a frame so that I can see if it looks like what I want. If it does, then I export it all. But it still a pain in the arse because it takes a lot more time.

[curtisbouvier]

Hello rawfa, I don't know if this will work for you, but it worked for me, which is good enough for the time being. Save your video as, "Photo - Jpeg" and put the slider at 80%, you get the same quality if not better, and the same file size... as H264 at 90% quality.

My video is anamorphic widescreen, 1280x500 instead of 1280x720. and boy does it looks NICE!

let me know how it goes man!