Video Rendering Over-Compression

Jesse-Valencia wrote on 3/14/2024, 3:31 AM

Hey everyone, I've been using Movie Studio 16 for quite some time and I've consistently noticed that every time I export a video, it always seems like it makes the file very compressed, especially in the amount of color information stored. I feel like I've tried every render setting I could possibly mess with, but nothing seems to help.

This first photo is what a file looks like in the preview window while I'm editing, with the clouds still definitely clipping, but there's still SOME information left in the highlights.

 

The second photo is what the file is rendered as, where everything is much more mushy, compressed, and contrast-y. The highlights are completely clipped, and the shadows are irreversibly crushed.

 

I use Windows 10 and have a GTX 1060 GPU. I thought initially that maybe it was something to do with the windows media player, but I've viewed it across different devices and the issue still remains. I've tried rendering in almost every different video codec and format that movie studio offers, using different bitrates, etc., with no success. Does anyone know what could be causing this or how I could fix it? Thanks!

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EricLNZ wrote on 3/14/2024, 4:06 AM

It looks like a Computer RGB to Studio RGB problem. Most players work on SRGB. Many consumer editors automatically adjust on export but VMS doesn't.

Apply a Levels video FX using preset Computer RGB to SRGB at output level. There's an FX button above the preview window.

I'd been using VMS for around 18 months before I realised this. I wish VMS alerted you at render time for us naive users!

Jesse-Valencia wrote on 3/14/2024, 11:42 AM

Oh my gosh it worked thank you so much! I didn't even know we had the ability to change to sRGB in VMS! This changes everything for me I appreciate you so much Eric!!

EricLNZ wrote on 3/14/2024, 5:19 PM

Thank you. Glad it worked.