archived-videos Lunar - first short

Not bad. You used some techniques normally considered cliche in a fairly effective manner. Story was good.

As for the video being a little too dark after upload, welcome to the hell that is putting video on the web. I still haven't figured out how to do this right.
 
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Oh hey, just remembered to ask:

What is your editing system (OS and video program)? What monitor are you using? And have you calibrated it?

I strongly recommend getting a hardware calibrator like the Spyder series of devices. I thought I was pretty good at calibrating by hand until I got one and compared its results to my hand-made profile. Night-and-day difference.

If you have a monitor that defaults to super-incredibly-bright (like an iMac or other Apple monitor), you'll want to turn that down to around setting 6 (ie. six full brightness increases from the lowest setting). Otherwise, your video will look waaaay too dark when played back on just about anything else.
 
escher said:
Oh hey, just remembered to ask:

What is your editing system (OS and video program)? What monitor are you using? And have you calibrated it?

I strongly recommend getting a hardware calibrator like the Spyder series of devices. I thought I was pretty good at calibrating by hand until I got one and compared its results to my hand-made profile. Night-and-day difference.

If you have a monitor that defaults to super-incredibly-bright (like an iMac or other Apple monitor), you'll want to turn that down to around setting 6 (ie. six full brightness increases from the lowest setting). Otherwise, your video will look waaaay too dark when played back on just about anything else.
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i use sony vegas 10 (atm) and i calibrated my HD TV by hand, but i'll check out that spyder device. the original render file is alot brighter than whenever i upload it and view it (on the same monitor) when online. so the problem must be the rendered file compatibility, i render and upload sony avc mp4 which shouldnt be a problem. i emailed vimeo about the problem and they got back to me saying there's little they can advise about the issue...
 
This sounds awfully similar to The Dreaded Gamma Problem I was having with FCP and Quicktime on a Mac. Read everything you can about Sony Vegas' color management system (I'm hoping they support that) to try to retain consistency between what you see in the editor and uploaded clips.

Worst case scenario -- you'll have to add a gamma or brightness/contrast/saturation filter for the video you export to adjust for the darkening you get after uploading, and the only way to get the right settings for that is trial-and-error.
 
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