colors and contrast so different after I output to h264? from magic buillet looks??

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maranfilms

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I was doing some grading in "LOOKS" but when I output to h264, or mpeg2, the colors, contrast, and brightness are so different than what im seeing in the program. I didn't notice this before, I bought a new monitor, more than likely the old one was just crappy. Anyways, has anyone else noticed a huge change in color, contrast,brightness, from when their in the looks program to when you output the footage. It's become a guessing game as to what it will look like after encoding. I cant work like this. If anyone can shed some light, I would be grateful. I did calibrate the monitor, not that there's anything to do with it, maybe, I dont know.:2vrolijk_08:
 
Never use the editing monitor for CC work. Always use a properly calibrated external TV of the highest quality you can afford.
 
Jim Simon said:
Never use the editing monitor for CC work. Always use a properly calibrated external TV of the highest quality you can afford.
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That may be true, but not a very helpful answer. The problem seems to be a shift when viewing the same clip on the same monitor in different formats. A $20,000 reference monitor is not going to solve that problem.

Are you on a Mac or PC? Quicktime has a well documented gamma shift that's very unpredictable (not to mention annoying). If you're viewing the h.264 file in the Quicktime player that could be the problem. Try exporting the file as an AVI or WMV and see if it helps, or try viewing the mpeg2 on a different platform.
 
How are you viewing the exported file ? What application / player ?

There are 2 settings in modern graphics cards for display, 1 is the desktop calibration settings, the other is the overlay video settings. Many people forget to calibrate the 2nd.

Some media players will use video overlay settings by default (overlay mixer) e.g. VLC, WMP etc.... Additionally, there are settings that have to do with renderer that can drastically change appearance (different renders like VMR9 renderless, vs. EVR, vs. overlay etc...)

PP doesn't use the overlay settings for the program monitor (most NLE"s dont) , they use the "desktop" settings, not the video overlay settings used in media players

There are other specific considerations for flash, DVD vs. blu-ray
 
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