MP4 Color Oversaturated [SOLVED]

[Gary Hamer]

When I save an MP4 slideshow, the result is much more saturated than what I see while editing inside P2EXE.  Saving an .exe of the same slideshow gives good results with no oversaturation.  When I upload the MP4 to YouTube, it is still oversaturated, while other people's slideshows look fine on my PC.

Any thoughts?  Thank You!

PS - I am using PTE AV Studio 10 Pro, V 10.0.14

[jkb]

what program are you using to play the MP4?
Could that be altering the colour.

If you bring the MP4 back into PTE does the colour look correct?

Jill

 

[Gary Hamer]

1 hour ago, jkb said:

what program are you using to play the MP4?
Could that be altering the colour.

If you bring the MP4 back into PTE does the colour look correct?

Jill

 

Thanks Jill!

Both 'Windows Media Player' and 'Movies and TV' players exhibit the over saturation.

When I brought my MP4 back into PTE is looks normal with no over saturation.

So that would seem to point to the Windows players.  What I can't understand is uploading to YouTube and it looks over saturated... I wouldn't think the Windows color settings would affect YouTube color but I really don't know.

[jkb]

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14 hours ago, Gary Hamer said:

When I brought my MP4 back into PTE is looks normal with no over saturation.

Are you using a different colour space for your images other than sRGB?

PTE can handle other colour spaces but the Windows viewers may not.

Check the Settings/Preferences/System Tab in PTE to see what it is set to.

Jill

 

[Gary Hamer]

5 hours ago, jkb said:

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Are you using a different colour space for your images other than sRGB?

PTE can handle other colour spaces but the Windows viewers may not.

Check the Settings/Preferences/System Tab in PTE to see what it is set to.

Jill

 

My color setting in PTE was set to 'Current Monitor Profile'  Since both monitors are carefully calibrated.

I changed to sRGB and PTE now looks over saturated like my MP4 export.

It's odd that I can save my jpgs from Lightroom in sRGB (and they look good) but when I change to sRGB in PTE then everything is over saturated.... I'm really confused at his point.

I'm thinking I need to re-train myself and watch some color management 101 vidoes :-)

Thanks for trying!

[jkb]

37 minutes ago, Gary Hamer said:

My color setting in PTE was set to 'Current Monitor Profile'  Since both monitors are carefully calibrated.

I don't use Lightroom, but maybe you have that set to Adobe RGB?
This has a wider Gamut than sRGB, so may make your images look more saturated.

PTE could be handling that being set to your Monitor Profile.

But if you have saved from Lightroom in sRGB then I am not sure.

 

I always use sRGB throughout, in camera, in Photoshop (when I use it) and in PTE.

My monitors are just as they arrived, never have calibrated them.

I find that my AV's always look as expected, on my monitor and on different projectors when shown at various clubs & festivals.
Also over Zoom they look as expected.

 

If you do a lot of printing then maybe you do need to calibrate, but I don't print so have never found the need for it.

Is it easy to switch the Monitor calibration off just to check?

Jill

 

 

 

[Gary Hamer]

14 minutes ago, jkb said:

I don't use Lightroom, but maybe you have that set to Adobe RGB?

 

When I do work for publications like calendars and magazines, I save as Adobe RGB from Lightroom, since that is what they request.  When I am saving for Facebook posts, my website, PTE or other web-based targets, I save as sRGB.  Facebook and my website posts look good except for my mp4 PTE exports.

Here is a YouTube link to the latest video that looks oversaturated to me

 

[jkb]

1 hour ago, Gary Hamer said:

Here is a YouTube link to the latest video that looks oversaturated to me

Hi Gary, thanks for sharing the video, some lovely pics.

Can I sugest to you that you make all your images the same aspect ratio, 16:9
It will flow much better, as it is distracting when images don't match.

Difficult without seeing the originals, but yes I agree they do look a little oversaturated,
I am viewing on my laptop, but that is also not calibrated.

I can only assume that it is your monitor profile that is causing the oversaturation.

Jill

 

 

[Gary Hamer]

11 hours ago, jkb said:

Hi Gary, thanks for sharing the video, some lovely pics.

Can I sugest to you that you make all your images the same aspect ratio, 16:9
It will flow much better, as it is distracting when images don't match.

 

Thanks for the feedback Jill.  I considered making them all 16:9, but in the end, I decided it would degrade the composition of too many images.