<p>I have an animation i After Effects (1920x1080, 25fps, Color working space sRGB 1966) with Illustrator doc in sRGB. The colors are correct when playing in project and also when exported and playing in Quicktime &amp; VLC.</p>

<p>But when uploading to Youtube and on other webpages the colors shift, especially one color (#00acc1) turquoise gets much more green. Like this <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/OQvap.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/OQvap.jpg" alt="Turquoise vs Aqua"></a></p>

<p>Left color - the right one and Right color - the color I get from Youtube.</p>

<p>This is in Firefox. But when I play the same video in Chrome &amp; Safari the colors are all correct in the video - except the startpicture (miniature from Youtube) gets the wrong color. Weird!</p>

<p>I have tried different codec-options in AE and Adobe Media Encoder (H.264, Youtube preset, Animation etc). I tried YUV (thought that less compression would make it better, since Youtube is already compressing it) and it got better I thought at first, but then I saw it just go more blue and in Chrome it got TOO much blue - so the color shift is still there. I also tried putting the masterclip in AE and setting a Utility profile converter to sRGB - but same shift there when uploading to web. </p>

<p>I have been trying to solve this for hours. I understand that colors can shift inbetween browsers and different screens, but this seems too much. Is this specific color extremely non-web-friendly? Or is there anything I can do about this, is it something I'm doing wrong or has anyone experienced something similar?</p>

<p>Thanks for reply!</p>

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2017-03-08T14:10:30.970Z
Take a look at http://video.stackexchange.com/questions/4912/possible-to-use-srgb-as-mp4-colorspace/10674#10674
tomh
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2017-03-08T23:53:01.023Z
Possible duplicate of [Possible to use sRGB as mp4 colorspace?](http://video.stackexchange.com/questions/4912/possible-to-use-srgb-as-mp4-colorspace)
Michael Liebman
<color><animation><video>
Color shift uploading to Youtube
K.Grey
# Color shift uploading to Youtube

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-03-08)

I have an animation i After Effects (1920x1080, 25fps, Color working space sRGB 1966) with Illustrator doc in sRGB. The colors are correct when playing in project and also when exported and playing in Quicktime & VLC.

But when uploading to Youtube and on other webpages the colors shift, especially one color (#00acc1) turquoise gets much more green. Like this [![Turquoise vs Aqua](https://i.sstatic.net/OQvap.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/OQvap.jpg)

Left color - the right one and Right color - the color I get from Youtube.

This is in Firefox. But when I play the same video in Chrome & Safari the colors are all correct in the video - except the startpicture (miniature from Youtube) gets the wrong color. Weird!

I have tried different codec-options in AE and Adobe Media Encoder (H.264, Youtube preset, Animation etc). I tried YUV (thought that less compression would make it better, since Youtube is already compressing it) and it got better I thought at first, but then I saw it just go more blue and in Chrome it got TOO much blue - so the color shift is still there. I also tried putting the masterclip in AE and setting a Utility profile converter to sRGB - but same shift there when uploading to web.

I have been trying to solve this for hours. I understand that colors can shift inbetween browsers and different screens, but this seems too much. Is this specific color extremely non-web-friendly? Or is there anything I can do about this, is it something I'm doing wrong or has anyone experienced something similar?

Thanks for reply!

**Tags:** color, animation, video

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Take a look at http://video.stackexchange.com/questions/4912/possible-to-use-srgb-as-mp4-colorspace/10674#10674  
> **username_2**: Possible duplicate of [Possible to use sRGB as mp4 colorspace?](http://video.stackexchange.com/questions/4912/possible-to-use-srgb-as-mp4-colorspace)  

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