Video Settings Explained for Animators
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We are back! And present to you: Everything (basic) an animator needs to know about choosing the right video settings and formats for animatics, pipeline exports and final animations. Find out what the many options in one of those complicated export windows mean and which of them you should choose in what situation.
What are your favorite formats and settings? And don’t hesitate to ask your questions in the comments below.
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thanks for sharing that, very insteresting. finally I understand 😉
I have a question; when I render with H264, colors are always lighter. Is it a problem with render image at the begining or the compression h264 do that ?
Glad the video was helpful. 😀
The gamma problem with h264 is a well known issue. Honestly, I don’t know which explanation is correct, but I have heard that it’s either the Quicktime encoder or the player screwing up with the gamma level.
If it’s the player your video file is actually fine and Quicktime (or a program using Quicktime) is just displaying it wrong. In that case your video has correct brightness if re-encoded (e.g. if you upload it to YouTube it usually fixes itself). There is a trick where people mess with the alpha setting in the video properties in Quicktime Pro that somehow fixes the color display: http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2008/06/fix-quicktime-gamma-shift/
Some encoders can actually color correct while encoding and so people set gamma to a value that counters the brightness bug, but I am not sure if that actually solves the problem or just counters the false display and therefore messes up the picture while looking like it’s fixed.
So if you really want to get this out you should google how people approached this with the software that you are using and if it actually is encoded or attributed wrong and needs to be corrected at all.
I for now choose to ignore this bug. All my videos encoded by Premiere turned out to be fine on YouTube and so far I haven’t made a Blu Ray myself. For previewing the animation the brighter colors don’t bother me, but I can see how this could be a problem for people trying to judge lighting etc.. So if the correct brightness matters to you, you should probably go with an image sequence in a frame cycler.
OH thank you Ferdinand for your answer, this help me a lot 😉
I’m happy to not be alone with this problem !
I think I will definitely forget my workflow and use yours !
So thanks again, and keep going, I love what you do on this website 😉
cool, you are back! definetly watching this entry later, but for now, 26mins are a bit too much 🙂