Adobe Rendering QuickTime With Way Too Much Contrast

Sorry to be the guy who posts way too many forums. I am 16 years old and new to stock footage. I have read many Pond 5 forums and want you to know that the professional advice that you all provide is extremely helpful.

After reading around, I found out that I really should be exporting my videos in QuickTime MOV. as opposed to H.264. The only problem is that, when I do so, I find that Premiere makes the image way over contrasted and turns the image blue. It basically takes the shadows way down making the video really dark and noisy. Is there a way that I can fix this?

You are very polite, well-spoken, and seem to be a good person ... don't worry about posting too much unless those things change!

I don't know Premiere render, but I am familiar with AE. All I can say is YES there is a way to fix what you are experiencing .. it is very wrong, and totally not normal. Your aim should be, with any render, to not be able to see any difference between your project before you render, and the render once re-imported into the same project. If you do, then something is "off".

I'll let the Premiere people help with specifics.

Thank you for the complement. Out of curiosity, what settings do you use to export from AE? Do you export in QuickTime MOV. or something else? Unless I am misunderstanding Quicktime H.264 is different than QuickTime MOV.. I think that I need MOV. in order to upload to VB and maybe SS but I don't have a SS account yet.

Also, can you export multiple sequences (or clips at the same time) from AE? I have been editing multiple sequences in premiere and then exporting them through the media encoder all at once. This way I can let my computer render the files while I do something else. Does After Effects do the same thing? From the Forums that I have read, it seems that a lot of the guys use AE.

Thanks,
Micah

Also, Should my exported MOV. files take up over a gigabit for a 30 second clip?

Micahcdavis:yes you can batch render from ae...usually there is a little difference when exporting mov photo jpeg from premiere,colours difference not level difference... it sounds like you see a level difference like a more or less contrast...which player are you using to check your footage after render???

I am on a PC so I am using Windows Media Player.
I may have solved the problem. I was trying to do a custom render earlier which really changed the color. When I exported with quicktime NTSC, H2634, ACC, 48 kHZ the video matched up well. I am doing one more test now. Are these the setting that you would recommend for stock?

It worked! The images match up! So now I am wondering about the file size. Should my 10 second video be 250 megabits?

I'd export mov photo jpeg for stock...becare of windows media player...it uses to expand levels so blown highlights and darker shadow=more contrast...i'd reccomend mpc hc as player...

Thank you! It is strange that Windows Media Player messes up the videos so badly. I am using Photo JPEG and exporting the footage in QT H.264. I appreciate all of the help!