Thanks everyone for the help.

I ended up rendering everything out at PhotoJPEG 98%.. file-sizes went WAY down and the client loves the quality.. plus!!!!!! it fixed/didn't show the QT Gamma issue!  So I'm now a big fan.  My entire render folder was 5.59Gb. vs nearly 25Gb+ previously. My client actually called to ask if it had a hiccup in the uploads because of how small the folder was.

Does anyone know a similar QT codec to PhotoJPEG that can do Alpha Channel and doesn't disable MultiProcessing in AE like PNG codec does?

Basically I need an embedded alpha channel codec which looks pretty much uncompressed, 8-bit is probably fine, is useable with FCP on Mac and Premiere on PC, and doesn't take up a TON of space like Animation codec does, which also takes advantage of AE's MP capabilities.

///Greg Balint
//Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer
/321.514.4839
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On 10/5/2012 7:11 AM, Darren H wrote:

Hi Greg,

The only difference is bit rate. HQ gives better quality at bigger file sizes, though in some cases where I've compared frames, I've struggled to see the difference. They're both 10bit. 

D. 

On Friday, 5 October 2012, Greg Balint wrote:

Can anyone, off hand, tell me what the diffs are between HQ and non-HQ?

///Greg Balint
//Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer
/321.514.4839
delRAZOR.com/ 

On 10/4/2012 7:54 PM, Gary Berendsen wrote:

I've been haing that as well, since cs6, well 5.5 as well.

prores non hq solved it for me.

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On Oct 5, 2012, at 1:52 AM, Brian Maffitt <brian@totaltraining.com> wrote:

I missed the detail about it showing up in the final edit. If that's true, this is something else.

Brian

Also this. I was gonna mention that. But if they see the shift in fcp for final edit I guess it does matter. They can't just gamma shift it back?

On Oct 4, 2012 7:46 PM, "Brian Maffitt" <brian@totaltraining.com> wrote:

Before you completely panic, I think you may be seeing a fairly well-know Quicktime-on-Windows display bug. It only affects how the movie looks when played in Quicktime, not when used in another application. Take a look at the same clip in VLC and see if it looks OK.

> Hey all,
>
> I'm running into some gamma issues or something, which I've never seen before.
>
> I've previously had issue with the H.264 bug, where renders would come out lighter, almost looking like their gamma was bumped up. I know what that looks like and how to alleviate it.
>
> This however, is a completely different ball of yarn.
>
> Basically.. I can take a ProRes 422 HQ file from my client (who wo