Colors are exporting dull after render

[Nicole Matin]

Hello!

I made a video in After Effects and have been trying to export it as a GIF in Media Encoder. The colors look good in After Effects, but as soon as it's rendered it loses a lot of vibrancy. I've played around with color profiles and different exporting settings, but nothing seems to work. I have also tried exporting as an mp4 and then converting to a GIF, but that removes the color again.

How can I fix this? Is there an issue with my color settings? I've attached a picture of the before and after.

[Ishan Y]

Hey Nicole,

This issue might be caused due to the limitation of the GIF format. The color depth of this format is only 8 bits, which amounts to 256 colors in total. By comparison, the most common media color depth is 24-bit (True Color), which supports about 16 million colors per pixel. This means that GIF files cannot contain as many tonal variations as your source video, resulting in the problem you see. Please try exporting in another format, such as Quicktime Prores or H.264, and let us know if you still see the issue.

Thanks,

Ishan

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