Colours exporting faded

[rosannaw7860180]

Hi,

Wondering if anyone can help!

When I export my composition from after effects, my colours appear faded. Can anyone advise as to what I am doing wrong here?

Thanks in advance,

Rosanna

[Mylenium]

Impossible to say. You have not told us anything useful, liek actual system information, render settings, details about the comps. Presumably you are simply overcranking colors and are not aware of the limitations of compressed formats in terms of colorspace and on top of it probably simply viewing things on a crappy, mis-tweaked monitor that further skews colors and/or a media player that messes with the Gamma. Again, impossible to say. You need to make an effort to actually explain what you do and provide the necessary info.

Mylenium

[rosannaw7860180]

Sorry I am in process of learning AE.

I am bringing layered photoshop compositions over in to AE to create animated versions of my these.

A little like this:

These are my comp settings

I've tried exporting as a quicktime animation and quicktime H.264.

Thanks in advance,

R

[Dave Merchant]

Unless you are using color management for all your files, there will always be small changes in the tone curves at import and export. There is a huge range of colors which can exist in a still image, but which are impossible to reproduce in a rec.709 video file.

Also, there are very few color-managed video players. Both the player software and the operating system will make changes to the colors before they are displayed on screen. Quicktime is notorious for messing up the gamma curve because it doesn't understand the black and white points.

The only way to see "accurate" colors is to play out through a reference video card (such as a Decklink) that's connected to a calibrated monitor. Since nobody else watching your videos will have that arrangement of hardware, you can safely assume that every person will see different colors. Live with it.

[rosannaw7860180]

When I export a video from an animation timeline in photoshop the colours stay true to those in the original source images, I would have thought if photoshop can manage this that AE would be able to do a similar job in export being that they are the same family.

Thinking a solution is I'll have to take my exports from AE in to Adobe premiere and push up the colours as currently they are really washed out.

Thanks for getting back to me here.

R

[Rick Gerard]

There is a flaw in your workflow that is causing the problems. You just need to nail down the proper color management. Also, unless you are an expert in video formats, compression and distribution standards you should not be setting up custom composition sizes. Delivery formats line h.264 MP4 are very picky about frame sizes and compression settings. You should also never render an h.264 Quicktime because Apple never supported that kind of MPEG compression in QT and they have dropped support for it completely. You should be using MP4 as your common delivery format.

[rosannaw7860180]

Hi Rick,

Thanks for getting in touch here!

I'm having to create a custom frame size as the screen the image will play on is not a standard format.

Given that I am creating animated comps from my psds can you advise what you might think the best export route may be? Understand if this is not possible without seeing my setup!

Thanks

R