Steve Fogel wrote:Can someone please recommend a way to preserve the contrast when exporting from Resolve for publishing on Vimeo or other web sites?
Important safety tip: Vimeo looks different from YouTube, and they both look different from other playback engines. Mac OS looks different than Windows. Chrome looks different from Safari, Safari looks different from Edge, Edge looks different from Firefox.
The number of possible combinations get fairly astronomical, fairly quickly. Me, I go through Frame.io and tell my Mac clients to watch on the current Safari, and it seems to work adequately under the current Mac OSX. Beyond that, it's "punt."
I was part of an effort about 13 years ago at Sony Pictures' ad/pub department where we spent 6 months testing various delivery methods in order to get consistent playback results on YouTube and Vimeo with different gamma and contrast settings, different color spaces, and other parameters. After 6 months and hundreds of tests... they gave up and just posted Rec709 2.2 gamma and let it go. Their reasoning was that there was such a lack of standardization on playback screens (laptops, tablets, phones, desktops, etc.) that that was a bigger problem than getting the playback engine correct per se. You can't control the world around you -- you can only put out the best picture you can under controlled conditions, then send it out and hope for the best.
Audio is even worse.