How to manage colour in After Effects to get precisely a desired colour in h264 output I am working on a video for the web only.
It is going to be on a webpage (never on broadcast), delivered as an h264 file.
The web page background is hex code FFF1E5 (RGB 255, 241, 229).
My background colour in After Effects is a solid with colour FFF1E5.
How do I generate an 264 video file with a background precisely this colour.
Not a little bit off. Exactly this colour.
Because I've tried adjusting colour Working Space in Project Settings until I'm 0000FF in the face...
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My usual workflow is:
export as ProRes 422 (or 4444 - same problem) from After Effects CC2020
Convert to h264 in Media Encoder CC2020
Since I cannot use hyperlinks in comments, here is the gist of my research:
This answer on a reddit post suggests, that the reason for the color-shift is the way illegal and legal colors are handled. So maybe the &quot;broadcast colors&quot; effect can help limit the color-range to the legal range? I'd recommend giving that a quick shot.
If that doesn't work, it should certainly do the trick to use Resolve and select video-levels instead of data-levels and encode the 4444 to h264 from there.
Please do report back and good luck!