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FCP colour correction solution to DSP ‘washed out’ encoding?
Sorry to jump in.. usual thing.. deadline etc
I’ve created a motion menu in FCP5 with miniDV footage and max quality JPGs. Exported self-contained QT at full quality DV and dropped into my DSP menu window. Prefs set for encode on build. It looks and plays as it should. I add DSP created text buttons. Still plays/looks OK.
On build however, DSP changes the look of the menu completely (whether viewed on mac, DVD or TV), i.e. it completely ‘washes out’ the image. Really yucky.
I’ve checked archives and there are some suggested workarounds but I need to stick with DSP created text buttons for now, which rules out using Compressor right? Because I would effectively be encoding twice?
So what are my options? I’ve tried significantly darkening the footage in FCP first to compensate for the later DSP caused ‘washing out’ and this has made a slight improvement but not enough.
Perhaps someone has some FCP colour correction setting which would compensate for the ‘damage’ that DSP does subsequently?
And finally, surely this is a fault with DSP and shouldn’t happen at all?
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Are you on Leopard?
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Hi Jeremy – I’ve got FCP5 on Tiger(10.4.11), but DSP4 on Panther(10.3.9).
This is because FCP5 won’t open without using my budget installed graphics card and Tiger (if I recall correctly). This same graphics card however, displays terrible artefacts when playing DVD material, hence DSP4 on Panther with said card disabled! Within DSP4 I have ‘software encode’ prefs chosen incidentally.
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Hi Rafael – My problem is (I think) that I have no choice but to encode within DSP because I am creating text buttons within DSP, i.e. which go on top of the motion menu. Or are you saying that I can export my menu with buttons to compressor? If so, how?
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I have had probelms with DVDSP and Leopard with menu gamma shifts:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/155/870450
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Thanks Jeremy for that link. Interesting even though I’m not myself using ‘goofy Leopard’. Perhaps I should try and install my 4.0.3 version of DSP onto my Tiger drive (as one of your responders recommended)? Not sure though.. especially while in the middle of a job…
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[Harry Powell] “Not sure though.. especially while in the middle of a job… “
Yeah, I can’t recommend that, but perhaps on to a different hard drive with a different os?
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Hi Harry,
You can bring the background movie already converted to MPG2 and add the buttons in DVDSTP.
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Rafael – you are right that Compressor will compress it better, but when I then add text buttons created within DSP, DSP then needs to compress again because of the added buttons, i.e. back to original problem except worse because I am compressing to mpeg2 twice. Please correct me if I am mistaken, or misunderstood your suggestion. Thanks.
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Hi Harry,
No much sure if DVDSTP re-compress the menu movie when you put the buttons.
When you display subtitles in a DVD, the subtitles are not embed in the movie, but are added in the fly.
Anyway make a test. Shouldn’t take long and you can see how results.
rafael
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