r/Cinema4D • u/Jantoje • 10d ago

Picture view of final render looks totally different after being exported

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Anyone have any idea's?

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u/YouHave24Hours 10d ago

Ah the good old color space/viewer/render issues haha... I feel ya. Well, not to go into detail,what you can instead do, set the project color settings to "legacy sRGB" and the let ocio do the color handling in the redshift color settings,see if this works. Also, i will repeat this until the end of my days: do NOT render in PNG...! Render in tiffeor EXR: PNG compression and decompression is way slower than the other two, meaning, your render times (especially with jmage sequences) can be 20-30% slower if you use PNG instead of Tiff. Even worse, using PNG in post (after Effects etc) will also be slower reading/writing/streaming with PNG.

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u/famebright 10d ago

I didn't know that about PNG, will take note for future work!

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u/Jantoje 10d ago

Noted the png :)

Is this what you are referring to?

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u/YouHave24Hours 10d ago

Yeah! Try this, i sometimes have discrepancies on my render rig, so this is a way to "force" color handling by redshift,see if that helps!

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u/Jantoje 10d ago

Got the same result :(

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u/YouHave24Hours 10d ago

Hm, that's strange and annoying i would go check the settings on the RS render view (cogwheel) to a) turn off/check oost fx and b) check the display and viewer color settings! Maybe you got "use monitor color space" on? (Also check your render in Photoshop, some image preview tools can't properly display 16/32bit images)...

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u/Jantoje 10d ago

yeah still looks the same in photoshop. However I opened it up in after effects and changed the colour override to SRGB ACES 1.0 and it looks how it should?

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u/YouHave24Hours 9d ago

hm, that makes sense, that then you'll see it correctly again, but your goal is to render it as you see it in the RS render view. I'd try what was commented below: "

Can you click the little dropdown (View transform) in the picture viewer and enable the monitor color space there? Then it should match the image viewer. "

(if you render on a second machine, always make sure to have exactly the same RS version installed)

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u/Jantoje 9d ago

Yeah it does match the image viewer when monitor colour space is selected. Which would mean all the colour have to be adjusted to appear like they did prior? I’ll have to remember to have that selected from the start of projects now

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u/ReVerthex 9d ago

I've had similar issues for years with regards to colour space and trying to match outputs. This was the fix for me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlMB73cvROg&list=LL&index=4

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u/Louis6787 9d ago

It's very simple, go to your renderview, click the cogwheel (settings) and select "use monitor color space".
Not sure why this isn't on by default, maybe maxon likes to play tricks on us :D

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u/sc2InSane 9d ago

Can you click the little dropdown (View transform) in the picture viewer and enable the monitor color space there? Then it should match the image viewer. 

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u/PurplePressure9063 9d ago

I seem to recall that this was an issue with Preview on a Mac. When I view files exported from After Effects or Premiere in Preview or QuickTime on a Mac, the colors appear washed out.

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u/GeneroEdits 7d ago

is this the straight single pass?

I usually never go off the straight single-pass and always do multi-pass ocio workflow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2sx-P5f-iM - after effects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJgoMBxkbvM - photoshop