3ds max ram player gamma issue

[Dave Buckley]

i have a series of still images rendered from max

 

my gamma settings are on 2.2 (input and output)

 

the rendered images look fine.

 

I then compile them in the Max RAM player to export as AVI, however regardless of the export gamma settings, the resulting video looks really dark.

 

however, if i do it as .mov, and keep the same settings, its looks perfect

 

any ideas why.

 

preferably, i want to be able to render out image,s compile them in RAM player, export as AVI and have as little deviation between images and final avi as possible

[SandmanNinja]

what is the format of the rendered still images?

 

If it's an 8-bit format, apply the gamma

If it's a 16/32-bit format, don't apply the gamma

[quizzy]

Gamma and ramplayer dont like eachother. Its a known bug.

What you could do is just simply import the footage in an empty bitmap slot and render that map to an avi

[Dave Buckley]

weird tho, when i export to quicktime rather than .avi it looks fine without changing any gamma settings

[Derrin]

I've got the same issue exporting from RAM player as an avi with max 2012 - the result comes out darker. However if i use Max 2011 RAM player the issue isn't there!

[Hockers]

This is weird, I've just had the same issue with 2012, but as soon as you run it in 2011 it works fine. Cheers Derrin!!

[tiago]

This is weird, I've just had the same issue with 2012, but as soon as you run it in 2011 it works fine. Cheers Derrin!!

 

And I'm running into this problem with 2011, maybe I should try in an older version.