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Nikki 25
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June 15, 2022
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[Cool creative dudes] QUESTION 🙏🏻 PLEASE HELP!

  • June 15, 2022
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I have a question. Please can you help me? 

 

I've just converted my Animate CC cartoon to a Quicktime movie. The resolution is good but the colours are a bit washed out. Is there a way to bump the colours right up on the Quicktime film? I'm working on a comedy animation so I need the colours to be extra bright & vivid.

 

Previously, when converting to Quicktime from Flash there was a simple way to adjust colours using sliders but now I can't find any colour controls anywhere. Does anyone know where they are hidden or how I can achieve gloriously brilliant technicolour? 

 

I used the settings - Quicktime and AppleRes 422. 

 

Many thanks in advance! - nikki x

 

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    Mario_CR
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    June 16, 2022

    Shifting colors in video rendering is a never ending problem for video editors, compositors and animators. At most you can get aproximations between formats and platforms but it will never be 100% the same: 

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/color-shift-when-exporting-to-prores/td-p/11222457

    Quick note: The quicktime A/V controls you mentioned only changes colors inside the player, not on the video itself.

     

    Despite that, there are some things you can do to get better color representation:

     

    • Edit your footage on a video editor. This by far the best option since these apps have a wide range of color calibration tools.

     

    • There aren't any options in Animate to globally adjust color levels. However if you nest all layers inside a symbol and apply an Adjust Color filter to it you can do some basic adjustments like hue, brightness, contrast and saturation.

     

    • 1920x 1108 is a strange resolution. Change your stage size to the standard 1920x1080 and uncheck Ignore Stage Color since ProRes 422 doesn't have an alpha channel anyway. There can also be gamma shifts with Apple ProRes formats when using non-standard resolutions. At least that was the case in After Effects, I don't know why.

     

    • Switch to Apple ProRes 422HQ instead of Apple ProRes, it's a higher quality format.

     

    • In Media Encoder check Render at Maximum Depth and change the color depth from 8 bit to 16 bit.

     

     

     

    Nikki 25
    Nikki 25Author
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    June 16, 2022

    Thank you, thank you, thank you x