Best Settings for burning to DVD with a Project that has Many Tracks

[John Rofrano]

[Debbie King] “Is there any other way I can calibrate my monitor, with perhaps, software?”

It’s hard without a professional monitor that has a “blue gun” control. Here is a tutorial by Glenn Chan that explains the manual process:

How to calibrate a broadcast monitor to color bars (NTSC)

There are other tutorials you can find on the web. You can use Vegas Pro to feed the color bars to your monitor and try and adjust as best you can but without the blue gun control, you’ll never get the colors correct because, as i said, you eyes aren’t accurate enough to tell you when red is actually red.

~jr

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[Debbie King]

Thank you so much John.

I will read the article. I’m thinking that at the very least, the Blu ray came out ok, so submit with it, and work on correcting my color issue incrementally, until I am better budgeted. I will try the manual route as well. It’s better than not doing it at all.

All the best,

Debbie

[Nigel O’neill]

Debbie

Much of the assistance I provide to some Vegas editors in my local area relates to colour grading. Having a high quality professional monitor is essential. Editing using a TV as a monitor or an over head projector is not ideal and will result in discs being returned and poor colour quality overall.

What John did not mention is that even the colour of the light used in your editing room can affect you perception of colour, as your brain will adjust automatically to see the ‘correct’ colour, but our cameras don’t lie (if set up correctly). Setting up your camera during the shoot with a simple manual white and black balance (if your camera has such capability), goes a long way to cutting down work in the edit stage.

Debbie, I do a lot of live video work which I then edit and deliver to the performers later on. In terms of showing the final work, I sell the performers a DVD but I also give the show’s producers an MP4 file created by the free Vegasaur Youtube plugin. They then play that back through a computer connected by HDMI cable to an HDMI projector in a theatre to all the performers. It’s much better than DVD and pretty close to bluray. It might help to ask the festival producers next time if they will accept file delivery.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Debbie King]

Hi Nigel:

Thank you so much. This is great info. Not sure if my computer monitor would be professional, but I have the ASUS Entertainment computer designed for gaming and editing. Other than that I don’t have anything comparable. The strange thing is that I have played my film on my HD TV and the color was the same as what I see on my computer screen. I may experience some additional contrast, but the color is intact. The experience I had last Sunday, at someone’s home was odd, because for some reason the color was reddish.

Many thanks again.

Best,

Debbie

[John Rofrano]

[Debbie King] “The experience I had last Sunday, at someone’s home was odd, because for some reason the color was reddish.”

I’ll bet that their TV has several “modes” (e.g., theatre mode, sports mode, game mode, etc.) and the TV just needed to be adjusted. My HD TV in my family room looks nothing like my HD TV in my upstairs bedroom and it’s just because the manufacturer’s alter the image to make the image look “better” which makes no 2 TV’s look alike because every manufacturer’s idea of “better” is different.

~jr

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[Debbie King]

Happy New Year Everybody!

Hi Grazie:

Thank you so much. It definitely sheds light. I really appreciate this. .

Best,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Happy New Year Everybody!

Hi John:

Thank you so much for clarifying. I was really thinking it had something to do with the color that came off the DVD, because I had not previewed it before we saw it. Actually I had previewed the one I rendered prior to this one, but had to render one with a level change. I didn’t have time to preview the last one I rendered.

So even if I calibrate my monitors, I can still have an experience with different looks on a TV monitor based on the TV’s settings? For my TV, I use the factory settings, because I never made any adjustments. Would you say, in this case, the picture would be more accurate?

Many thanks,

Debbie

[John Rofrano]

[Debbie King] “So even if I calibrate my monitors, I can still have an experience with different looks on a TV monitor based on the TV’s settings?”

Absolutely. People joke that NTSC standands for Never The Same Color. 😉

[Debbie King] “For my TV, I use the factory settings, because I never made any adjustments. Would you say, in this case, the picture would be more accurate?”

The only accurate picture is the one on a properly calibrated broadcast monitor. Everything else is a gamble. Like I said, my two HD TV’s look completely different and they both use the “factory” settings. Obviously you don’t want your video to have a red cast on some TV’s when other programs don’t have a red cast, but it ill look different on every TV. Some lighter, some darker, some more red, some more contrast, etc. There’s nothing you can do about it. You want it to look as good as other content on the same TV does.

~jr

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