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Masked 16:9 show to 1.85, blacks in mask gray on 4:3 monitor
I have a short that I just output to DVD. The sequence is 16:9 with a 1.85 mask over it for a wider aspect. The blacks all register correctly on the waveform (within media composer). Rendered the MPEG-2 in Sorenson (4.5) as widescreen 16:9 and burnt using Encore (CS3). I also tried letting Encore do the Encode off of a HD Quicktime Ref (Avid DV Codec and 601/701 colors). It displays correctly on a a widescreen TV with the mask I applied. On a 4:3 TV it resizes correctly preserving the aspect ratio, however, the blacks of the mask I added appear gray in comparison to the letterbox that the DVD player is adding around the MPEG-2. Basically it appears as if there is deep black (DVD player letterbox), then dark gray (the 1.85 mask). I don’t know of a way of making the mask darker, its already full black. I know it can be done, any widescreen DVD you buy can play correctly on 4:3 and 16:9 monitors with out this black banding in the mask rega rdless of how thin the aspect may be in comparison to 16:9. Any pointers or help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
Here’s a picture of my issue:
Brian Dieck
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4 Replies
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Once a DVD-legal MPEG-2 stream is brought into Encore, the only thing Encore does is mux it with the audio into a VOB file at build time before writing it to disc – in other words, the color space of the video is untouched.
The problem lies either with the color space in your NLE or your MPEG-2 encoder.
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The levels are spot on in the waveform in Media Composer. And I have been rendering off of a QT reference files with the correct color space. Is there a way in Encore to crop the 16:9 source to 1.35 so it doesn’t have to have my mask on it yet still display correctly? It seems as if the black the DVD players are adding as a letterbox are below legal black levels. Almost as if it’s not sending signal to those areas.
Here is the video in Avid with the corresponding waveform:
Brian Dieck
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The deepest black in your waveform doesn’t go to 0 IRE. That leads me to believe you’ve added setup somewhere along the way. Don’t do that.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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The original video was pretty low, so there’s some heave color correction on it. But you can see that the mask levels are indeed at 0 IRE so why are the levels different in the DVD player created letterbox.
Brian Dieck
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