To Authors - MOV and players

Hello again friends, this time it is more.. like a dumb question but I’ll ask anyway since google could not help me

I have the habit of exporting my final project in mov and from then re-rerender to FLV . Maybe it is a good habit, maybe it is not. The thing lately is that when I do my first export to .mov (and it is almost uncompressed: photo-jpeg 90%) and play it in the native quicktime player the images looks soo brightened and without any contrast compared to the way it looks in AE. I am on windows so I play it in windows media player which results in much more darker image than AE shows O.o ..

so bottom line

- quicktime player -> too bright and with no contrast (brighter than AE shows) - wmp -> too dark and contrasty (darker than AE show)

Both players are using their default settings. The operating system itself is 1 month old, nothing funny or strange has been done accordingly to the color settings neither of my video card nor my monitor.

Obviously cannot count on any player for precise color :/ Really annoying when you cannot sew what you actually did..

Any tip, ideas and shared experience is much appreciated.

p.s. even though I back up my render with some hard curves adjustments it stills looks far away from the AE preview window :/

thanks

inlife

same problem here :/

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@Dobri: someone is coming around here more often! now you enjoy the forums! I told ya!

yea it turned out very useful

Thanks Ben, after 5 hours testing it turned out that actually windows media player pretty much does the job.. in contrast what I said about it previously. Since mov is integrated in win7 as supported format it opens easily and I think it works.

Thanks

Regards

Hey thanks, very useful article. Should check it out for sure. Great talk again.

Thanks

inlife