not the same color in .wmv

[roppin]

I have a problem. I want to convert an image sequence from premiere 2.0 to .wmv but the colors gets way to saturated. when converted to .mov I dont have the same problem. is there a way to solve this?

[joconnell]

Counteract what the compression is doing using levels in premiere - most compressors will apply a slight bit of contrast to a sequence - it pushes the dark greys to black and the light greys to white so the compressor has more flat areas of colour it can compress the hell out of.

[roppin]

thanks.
I must be something wrong. I expect it to behave more linear than now. Here I go tearing my brain out to try and adopt to a linear workflow, and this m....r f.....g codec drag me back to flintstone

the quicktimecodec dont behave this way.

[DaForce]

wmv, avi and mpg are all affected by the video overlay controls of your video card. As well as the gamma controls ( i think) Check the settings in your display drivers and make sure the settings havnt changed.

Quicktimes are not affect by these controls hence it looks right.

[roppin]

got it. Thanks I was about to go nutts

[DaForce]

hehehe yeah its a sneaky one thats for sure.

Mind you its also a good reason why it may be better to stick with Quicktime anyway, as you know that the client will see what you see. With WMV or avi it could look out of whack if they have changed the overlay controls. Although it is fairly unliekly they have done that.
Its also probabaly unlikely they will actually have quicktime... atleast WMV can be played easily

[roppin]

yes thank you. I would stick to quicktime if I could find a good encoder for it that dont cost to much. 50% procent or more of my colaboratives or custumers works on a mac. If you have a good workflow for smal sized yet good locking quicktime I´m happy to hear

[DaForce]

h264, is an amazing codec. I believe you can encode with it.. straight away if you have quicktime pro.

[joconnell]

I found in my case that the audio was a big problem I needed access to mpeg 4 audio before it was viable to use as a mail format so yeah quicktime pro is the cheapest way to do that. There's a few other apps like cleaner and squeeze that give you loads of options on resizing, colour correction, fps changes and multiple versions but that may be overkill for most.

[roppin]

Thanks. I will get that pro then