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i am now almost done with the intro of my first animation. if i export the animation the colours actually dont look that nice anymore.
are there any tricks or configurations how i can keep up the "nice" colours? the exported avi-file looks actually like its lost the saturation in the colours.

Loss of saturation happens with most codecs. Different compression yields different results. That's why professionals render uncompressed when they deliver to the client or a TV station. For internet, you need to experiment with different codecs. You could try to boost all your colours in a video editor prior to exporting, but the results may vary.

i have sony vegas for editing but i would like to export the colours as good as possible so it comes more close to how it looks like in AS9

can anyone recommend a codec that works well for this purpose?

It could also just be the player you're viewing it on as well (still a codecs issue). When I play a rendered file on Potplayer it doesn't look so good, but that same file looks great on QuickTime.

Have you tried importing your rendered animation into your editor, then exporting again to see what it looks like?

I mainly render from AS as QT/Animation, import it into Adobe Premiere, then render it out with the Youtube/1080p/24fps preset. It works well for me.

slowtiger wrote:Loss of saturation happens with most codecs. Different compression yields different results. That's why professionals render uncompressed when they deliver to the client or a TV station. For internet, you need to experiment with different codecs. You could try to boost all your colours in a video editor prior to exporting, but the results may vary.

Nothing to add that isn't said here. I for one, Never render from AS compressed unless it is just a simple(for example) tutorial or gag that I create and upload within a few hrs of conception.
I, personally render from AS as AVI uncompressed and others swear on using png either are fine. I personally do not like to Render anything in QT ever.

Yosemite Sam wrote:It could also just be the player you're viewing it on as well (still a codecs issue). When I play a rendered file on Potplayer it doesn't look so good, but that same file looks great on QuickTime.

just checked it out and its just like u said. in vlc player the avi doenst look that great but in the normal windows media player the colours look actually good.

skygaz3r wrote:

Yosemite Sam wrote:It could also just be the player you're viewing it on as well (still a codecs issue). When I play a rendered file on Potplayer it doesn't look so good, but that same file looks great on QuickTime.

just checked it out and its just like u said. in vlc player the avi doenst look that great but in the normal windows media player the colours look actually good.

Great. Yeah, Potplayer and VLC, for some reason, don't seem to play rendered Anime Studio files well.

sbtamu wrote:Nothing to add that isn't said here. I for one, Never render from AS compressed unless it is just a simple(for example) tutorial or gag that I create and upload within a few hrs of conception.
I, personally render from AS as AVI uncompressed and others swear on using png either are fine. I personally do not like to Render anything in QT ever.

Although there are a lot of true professionals here who need to render at top quality for broadcast, I think its safe to say that many people here just want to find a way to make their finished product look good on the internet (Youtube, etc.).

I'm surprised you don't like the QT renders. That's interesting because I always get great results from QT/None when I need it. AVI takes up so much HD space. But I'm using a 128gb SSD, so space is precious. I don't trust HDDs with my hard earned work.