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Catherines978
Participant
December 4, 2023

Character Animator video renders are washed out?

  • December 4, 2023
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I'm out of ideas for what's causing this. My mp4 and mov renders are distinctly washed out from the original puppets and art assets. Single frame exports and PNG sequences are color accurate, but I need to use mp4 and movs for work. I brought the frames into After Effects and Photoshop to confirm the problem wasn't with QuickTime or Media Player.

 

I tried going back from Ch 24.0 to 23.6 with the matching Media Encoder versions. Still looking washed out. I've tried rendering on 3 different pcs, including a new higher end one, and the problem is still there.

I've been working with Character for a couple years and I've never seen this before. I have old renders that look correct but new renders of the same scene come out wrong. As far as I can remember, I didn't chanage any settings, but maybe I did without realizing.

 

I can use png sequences or do color correcting in After Effects, but that really only works as a temporary solution. Any ideas on what's going on would be very appreciated!

Screenshot shows the video render on the left and the correct png render on the right. I can also add any other screenshots that would help

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Catherines978
Participant
December 15, 2023

Update: Still no answer 😞

 

Been seeing other glitches from ch as well. The scene sometimes renders a few frames past the end, 'compute lip sync' has been freezing the program, and the viewport playback will get laggy and out of sync with the audio.

 

Do adobe apps just not work as well on PCs as they do on Macs?