Re: Horribly OT - H.264 problems

["Tim Leydecker" <BauerOink(at)gmx.de>]

Hi Lee,

thanks alot for the kind words I´m glad I could help you.
No idea why dither copy is the default, thought.

Cheers

tim

P.S: Sorry for the late response, I´m thick into working
my butt off. And, whatever I said about Maya feeling less
buggy compared to XSI, well, that was a misconception...


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I've always respected you from afar Tim :o) - Bravo, that worked!

(wonders why on earth it would default to 'dither copy' in the first
place!)

Cheers

Lee




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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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> 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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