Darker Video output driving me nuts...possible codec problem? Please help!

Hey all,

I’ve been wrestling with this for days and it’s driving me nuts. :mad:

Rendered a motion graphics animation out to PNG. The PNGs look fine.
When I use the VSE to export to H.264 video or MP4 the video is darker and slightly desaturated when played in VLC player and when imported in Avidemux, the colors are off.
Stranger still, when I take a snapshot with VLC player, the resulting image has the same, correct colors as the PNG !

I’m using Blender 2.74 and I don’t have any separate codec pack, like FFMPEG, installed.

Don’t have any clue how to solve this apart from color correction, which I’m trying to avoid.

Any help is much appreciated.

TIA, T

can you make a small simple animation and render it as a video to see if it is just that one project, or if blender has some corrupted files.