Export to avi, colors too bleak

When I export an uncompressed avi movie I get a 3gb file for a 22sec movie which can't be played with vlc. When I choose to compress the movie with Xvid I get an 8mb file which works perfectly but the colors are too bleak. Is there any way I can compress the movie but still keep a sizeable file (say 50mb) which keeps it true colors?

Try something like this (season your audio to taste) H.264 preset of type MP4 container:
I had no obvious color issues and the file size was pretty on spec. At 8Mbit (or 1MB/s) it's a 36 second 1920x1080@30FPS (yep more than 24) progressive 1.0PAR and it looks very good. Note I checked Render at Maximum Depth and Use Maximum Render Quality. Plays terribly in QuickTime on Windows because just about everything HD+ does but every other media player (VLC, WMP, etc) plays it smooth and crisp.
Your content is highly subject to the bitrate you need. If it's computer generated, lots of sharp lines, movement, precise detail (text, grains), then you're going to need to ramp that bitrate up. If it's motion film with lots of background + foreground and smooth overall tone you can get away with a lot less bitrate.

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