my mov's are darker on vimeo than reality

Blade Borge

Blade Borge

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I export using animation, photo jpeg codecs, HD stuff, always like 2 stops darker when I put it on vimeo and youtube. I guess this is like a gamma problem, but still, how do I fix this?
 
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Search Quicktime Gamma Shift in Google or on these forums to find more info.

In my expierence, you never send a Quicktime file unless it needs to go to another editor. Quicktime is not a delivery format in terms of the codecs Apple gives you to work with.
 
"In my expierence, you never send a Quicktime file unless it needs to go to another editor. Quicktime is not a delivery format in terms of the codecs Apple gives you to work with."

Why and what are the more appropriate delivery formats, I'm guessing one is h.264
 
Blade Borge said:
"In my expierence, you never send a Quicktime file unless it needs to go to another editor. Quicktime is not a delivery format in terms of the codecs Apple gives you to work with."

Why and what are the more appropriate delivery formats, I'm guessing one is h.264
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h.264 in a .mp4 file is a much better choice. So is WMV.

Quicktime has issues with their software gamma translation, since OS X runs in 1.8 gamma, and the rest of the world is on 2.2 gamma. For some reason the encoders on the PC try to translate your video to 1.8 gamma.

Remember that sites like Vimeo and Youtube are going to re-encode your material, so you want to send as high quality of a file. Later down the road, these video services might upgrade their streaming, and go through and re-encode old videos. This has happened for youtube many times, and there is no way to replace the video once you've uploaded it!

Personally I deliver a high profile h.264 in an mp4 container to video sharing sites like youtube and videmo. For the time restraints, 1 gb is more than enough to get a master quality file uploaded for 10 minutes of content.
 
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