HUGE problems with exporting animation

[jay1982]

Hi,

When I render an individual image from my animation, the colour is perfect in the JPG. It's as I would expect.

#1
When exporting as Quicktime > MPEG4 > "best" quality, everything is far too pale - the skin colour of my characters goes from being a light pink to a horrible pale yellow colour.

#2
When exporting as Quicktime > tick "NTSC Safe" colouring > "best" quality, everything looks more like it should.

#3
When exporting as Quicktime > H.264 > untick "keyframe every x frames" (if I don't do this, only 1 frame of the animation will be saved in the output file), everything looks as expected.

My issues are when using method #2, the NTSC safe colouring only applies to the first file saved - so the first movie in the batch has the correct colours then everything rendered after this are the horrible pale colour again.

Using method #3, once again, only the first file is saved correctly - anything rendered after the first file in the batch will only have 1 frame saved in the animation.

ALL I WANT TO DO IS BE ABLE TO BATCH RENDER MY ANIMATION (90+ SCENES) WITH THE CORRECT COLOURS! THIS SHOULD NOT BE SO DIFFICULT!!!

Does anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks

[slowtiger]

Choose the correct codec.

All compressing codecs change the colour. Only non-compressing codecs will preserve the colour as it is.

[jay1982]

I did that though.

To me it looks like some kind of bug with batch export. Re-read #2 and #3. They gave me the correct colours but only in the first file of batch export. If I export each file individually, they're correct.

Batch export should work as expected and I shouldn't have to render each file individually as there's just over 90 files.

[slowtiger]

Ah OK, you're right - settings for rendering should at least be consistant during batch rendering, no matter which settings you choose. Anyone else noticed this behaviour?

[jay1982]

just for the record, this no longer happens in 6.1 - #2 as described above works perfectly now. wooooo