h.264 videos have gamma shift with various browsers and players
my issue is that my footage after being uploaded to youtube is not consistent from browser to browser.
for example in safari the footage looks washed out/desaturated as compared to firefox and chrome. similarly, the footage looks washed out in quicktime X but looks fine in VLC. VLC and youtube via chrome/firefox all match my timeline in FCP7. it's quicktime X and youtube via safari that make the footage look washed out.
it seems that it must be related to the h.264 gamma bug that i've been reading about but i can't find any fixes that work.
i've tried using the x264 plugin that claims to fix the problem with gamma tagging but that doesn't change anything for me.
at the end of the day i really don't care about the variation between the media players, but since my final destination is youtube, i would like to be consistent on this platform.
my workflow:
5DmkII
transcode to apple prores 422
edit in FCP7
send to compressor with youtube h.264 preset
again, the resultant file varies in appearance between quicktime x and VLC (with VLC matching my timeline in FCP7)
and chrome/firefox vs safari (chrome/safari matches my fcp7 timeline)
how do you guys export for web? anyone encounter this issue?
Mac Pro (Early 2008)