Hey John -- Happy New Year. How have you been? I only just saw this, so you probably figured out something already.
This is SUCH an old headache -- I think Apple and Microsoft have both handled this horribly for nearly 20 years. I've used each of these workarounds, with varying degrees of success, depending mostly on what the QTs are being used for -- ingest or playback: 1. Do everything on a Mac, or at least the final conform & output to QT. But doublecheck the results on both Mac and Win! 2. Assuming you're on Windows, and have an NVidia card -- go to NVidia settings, and make sure that they look like this: [image: Inline image 1] --this will at least make things look decent on *your* machine (as long as you're not using H264 or another codec that compresses the dynamic range severely; I recommend MP4). It's usually not worth trying to get a Windows-based client person to make this adjustment... and of course you need to check that the results look correct on a Mac as well. 3. After making the QT, open it, go to Window>show Movie Properties>video Track>Visual Settings and change "Transparency" from "Dither Copy" (the default) to "Straight Alpha". Close the Properties window and save the QT file. This is usually universally effective (again H264 won't have completely black blacks or white whites), but often makes playback stuttery or slow with large movie files in QT Player. 4. Make the Quicktime in Nuke from an uncompressed image sequence output from AE or ME.There are some output settings that you might have to mess with, but I can't recall them ATM. 5. After making the Quicktime, open it, and adjust the A/V Controls to "fix" the brightness and contrast, then re-save it and send to the client (this only works if the client is viewing it using QT Player). 6. If the QT is ONLY being used for review and not ingest, eye-match a color-correction in After Effects for the QT output (and save it as a preset!), avoid H264, and, IIR, make sure "use legacy Quicktime Gamma settings" is checked in the project color settings. Let me know how you ended up fixing it. Ed On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 7:45 PM, John Clausing <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all > > We're making a sequence in 3D that's lit and rendered fine, (Arnold , > exr), composited in Nuke, and rendered from Nuke as 8 bit . Tiffs......then > brought into After Effects to edit and make a QT, for Facebook. > > Up until the QT is made, the color is just right, upon viewing the QT, the > gamma is off and looks less saturated and dull..... > > If I bring the QT back into AE or Nuke it is fine > > Clearly this is a QT viewer issue long known, but the client doesn't like > it and insists on QTs for its FB postings > > Any thoughts? We've tried every color adjustment we can think of from QT > Pro, media encoder and various color settings in Project Settings in AE > > Thoughts? Thanks, > > John > > Sent from my iPhone >
