Major DVDSP menu color shift after building DVD

[David Roth weiss]

Huh! Odd, cuz I just made 50 DVDs with menus without a hitch. I used DVDSP templates with DVDSP menus. Were your’s Photoshoped?

David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss Productions, Inc.
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[Jeremy Garchow]

Yes, all custom menus. I can’t lick this and it’s really frustrating.

Sending feedback as we speak.

Wanna help? Download this file:

https://www.madayproductions.com/dvdsp/

and then open the video_ts folder in dvd player, then open the MWV_FLAT_DVD.psd in photoshop or preview.

Do you see a difference? This shift is apparent from computer monitor to tv monitor and happens using a set top DVD player as well.

I’d take a screen grab, but screen grabs are disabled with DVD player.

Thanks.

Jeremy

[David Roth weiss]

Jeremy,

First, for some reason I could not get the Video_TS file to open with in DVD Player. However, I did open the VOB file with Streamclip that had your blue BG. There’s no doubt about it, there’s a difference between what I saw there and the PSD you sent. Is the PSD right, cuz it looks kind of dull compared to very vibrant BG in the VOB file, which was way blue, but with banding?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[David Roth Weiss] “First, for some reason I could not get the Video_TS file to open with in DVD Player.”

Open DVD player then File > Open DVD Media, then navigate to the Video_TS folder.

[David Roth Weiss] ” Is the PSD right, cuz it looks kind of dull compared to very vibrant BG in the VOB file, which was way blue, but with banding? “

No, the PSD is spot on. There’s text that goes over it, I just left that part out to highlight the problem.

[David Roth Weiss] “which was way blue, but with banding? “

I am not surprised about banding as it’s a gradient, but it seems to be much more pronounced after the encode.

Glad I am not seeing things and thanks a lot for looking.

I have a couple of older builds of the project and you should see the difference between this encode and that encode. This new one is ugly.

I have tried this with other menus that I created in haste and they all do the same thing. There’s something weird going on as this problem has never come up before and I have the builds to prove it.

Thanks again, David.

Jeremy

[David Roth weiss]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Open DVD player then File > Open DVD Media, then navigate to the Video_TS folder.”

Nope, it wouldn’t open for some reason…

I heading out now to walk the dogs, but I’ll be here tonight afterward if I can help in any way.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Jesse Jacobs]

Did you ever solve this problem? I am having the same issue. A color shift and poor compression overall degraded quality.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Not in Leopard. Building in Tiger is the only way to fix it.

[Jesse Jacobs]

I’m in Tiger and I am having color shift issues.
here is my thread. https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/155/870990#870990

[Jeremy Garchow]

Don’t know what to tell ya. It’s a problem that I can’t seem to track down. What else do you have on your system? Kona card or anything? Looking for similarities.

Swithcing to Generic RGB does nothing.

Jeremy

[Jesse Jacobs]

Yeah generic RGB didn’t work for me either. Although I had no color profiles of both psd and quicktime assets. My next test will be to put generic RGB in the color profiles and re-encode in DVDSP.