In After Effect, my colors looks over saturated and contrasted when the adjustment layer is on but after rendering this adjustment layer did a really good job to compensate the color loss. I toggled my Adjustment Layer before rendering only.
Hdr editing after effects mp4#
mp4 opened with Quicktime : After Effect/Project Setting/Colors set to sRGB 16 bits + an adjustment layer WITH Image Contrast - Saturation Effect applied. mp4 opened with Quicktime with After Effect/Project Setting/Colors set to none 8 bits. Top : After Effect/Project Setting/Colors set to sRGB 16 bits. It's not normal having such a color/contrast shift after exporting. I found this workaround that seems to works but would be nice having a better solution/answer from Adobe. Changing to sRGB 16 bits added a bit more saturation and contrast but still way not enough compared to my colors in After Effect. Colors were completely washed out after exporting. By Default, my Project Setting Color Working Space was set to none. Really frustrated loosing so much colors and contrast when i export. So my recommendation is to do your tests before you start a big project, this way you won't be disappointed later on when you render your video to discover colors are not what you expected. It is important to notice that the colors vary when you render the video inside AE or when you use the Adobe Media Encoder with the YouTube default compression. In my case, I make animated videos to be published in YouTube so the choice that seemed to be closer to the color I see in YouTube was this one: The solution is to change the color configuration of the projects in AE, in a way you choose an option as similar as possible to the final device in which the video will be played.
Hdr editing after effects mac#
It is something I didn't notice when working on Windows, but now that I am working on Mac it is more noticeable to me as the screen is better. What I found is that colors may vary according to the video player as it is shown below (YouTube, QuickTime, VLC): And I also didn't find any forum where this issue was approached and explained using simple terms. After checking the issue I found out something that may be basic knowledge for experienced animators and designers in After Effects.