Re: Horribly OT  - H.264 problems

Date : Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:46:17 +0200
To : <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
From : "Tim Leydecker" <BauerOink(at)gmx.de>
Subject : Re: Horribly OT  - H.264 problems
Hi there,

get a hold of a quicktime pro license, export a file from there,
then open it in quicktime and ´wade through all the advanced
settings (sorry I´m at home, no pro here to guide you along)
and look for the layermodes, it´s often that "dither copy" will look
washed out but at least one of the other modes resembles what
you´re after. It´s somewhere there where you can also set stuff
like looped playback, highquality display and such.

Cheers

tim


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Subject: Re: Horribly OT  - H.264 problems



So maybe you need to pick a non-ntsc (or television) compression format?

If I had any choice over compression format I wouldn't be using H.264 thats for sure!




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Lee_Carus(at)scee.net wrote:

>perhaps color correcting it prior to compression would

help?
Yup - tried that and tried compressing it with a million different
apps too (well perhaps 5 different apps) - no matter what goes in
black always comes out at 16.16.16 and white 236.236.236 - referring
back to Gregs post it definitely seems to be a bug interpreting colour
profiles. Great!

Thanks guys
Not that it'll help but I think 16-235 was the approximate range for
NTSC color space.

There's a whole thing with rgb not quite fitting in to ntsc and back in
the day you usually needed to check video signal output to make sure
that you're outputting "legal" colors and it sounds like the system is
second-guessing you on this.

So maybe you need to pick a non-ntsc (or television) compression format?

-T


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