Rendered video distorted/inverted colors

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I recently started using SFM, so I've made a test animation, and rendered it (60 FPS & 1280x720, if somebody wants to know). Basically some crude stuff, yet when I opened the AVI, the video was unproportionally streched, it definitely wasn't 60 FPS, the edges weren't aligned, and the colors were weird, RED models were green, and BLU were purple-ish. Does someone know a solution to the problem? I'll put up a download link here.[drive.google.com]

[The Custy (ON GAMING HIATUS)]

Originally posted by GameOverXXI:

I recently started using SFM, so I've made a test animation, and rendered it (60 FPS & 1280x720, if somebody wants to know). Basically some crude stuff, yet when I opened the AVI, the video was unproportionally streched, it definitely wasn't 60 FPS, the edges weren't aligned, and the colors were weird, RED models were green, and BLU were purple-ish. Does someone know a solution to the problem? I'll put up a download link here.[drive.google.com]

Hi! Your best solution is to export as image sequences and piece together in Blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjC3kzH30xo

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Originally posted by Happy Custoween:

Originally posted by GameOverXXI:

I recently started using SFM, so I've made a test animation, and rendered it (60 FPS & 1280x720, if somebody wants to know). Basically some crude stuff, yet when I opened the AVI, the video was unproportionally streched, it definitely wasn't 60 FPS, the edges weren't aligned, and the colors were weird, RED models were green, and BLU were purple-ish. Does someone know a solution to the problem? I'll put up a download link here.[drive.google.com]

Hi! Your best solution is to export as image sequences and piece together in Blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjC3kzH30xo

Thanks! I'll try it tomorrow, hope it'll solve the problem :)

[The Custy (ON GAMING HIATUS)]

Originally posted by GameOverXXI:

Originally posted by Happy Custoween:

Hi! Your best solution is to export as image sequences and piece together in Blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjC3kzH30xo

Thanks! I'll try it tomorrow, hope it'll solve the problem :)

Ok!

[Zappy]

By the way, if someone tells you to install QuickTime so you can just export MP4s or MOVs directly from Source FilmMaker, don't. Use the image sequence method shown above. The rest of this comment can be ignored if you don't understand it, don't worry, it's just an explanation of why image sequence renders are superiour.



AVIs exported from Source FilmMaker tend to be broken in the way you're experiencing, and MP4s/MOVs exported from Source FilmMaker are either too dark and saturated or too bright and de-saturated, depending on the compression codec used.

Beyond that, the AVIs are also uncompressed, resulting in absurd file-sizes (which results in the broken AVI exports, as Source FilmMaker can only hold around 3-4 gigabytes of information in itself at a time, and it exports the AVI in one go), and the MP4s/MOVs have a much lower quality-to-file-size ratio than what you get from image sequence renders (as in lower quality but bigger file-size).

Image sequence renders, however, work by exporting the images of the session one-by-one (thus no broken stuff due to lack of RAM like with AVI exports), then using a program (often Blender or VirtualDub) to combine the images and sound file into a video, keeping the colours intact (unlike MP4s/MOVs exported straight from Source FilmMaker) and compressing it with a higher quality-to-file-size ratio (depending on render settings).

[The Custy (ON GAMING HIATUS)]

Ahh, i still remember my first avi export.. A combine half life 2 animation. Started off normally, then BZZZZZZRRRRRTTTTT the whole thing was going crazy! The video sounded like a fire alarm horn, the video was strobing and I.... Was ultimately confused as hell