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My colors are gone – from HDV to DVD the nice way?
I have a HDV documentary, now full edited with sound mix, color grading and all in fcp. Now I want to make a DVD and this is where the problems start.
I am trying to make an uncompressed qt file. For start it works fine. This besides the fact that I am missing depth of color (compared to my fcp view) and the video is interlaced.
The funny thing is that when I play the exported and uncompressed file via qt-player the colors have disappeared ( https://www.mybestfriendgoogle.com/in_player.jpg ), but when i export a still frame, also via qt-player all the colors are back ( https://www.mybestfriendgoogle.com/current_settings.jpg ).
So i guess I am seeking clever head that can tell me how to solve the color and interlacing problem?
My thought is to have a native uncompressed high quality HDV file that can be imported and authored in Adobe Encore
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5 Replies
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The reason why your colors look washed out in Quicktime Player might be that you didn’t activate the “Enable Final Cut Studio color compatibility”. You find that under Preferences in your Quicktime Player.
Anyway I woudn’t create an uncompressed file, but encode the MPEG-2 you need for your DVD straight away inside FCP. You do that by selecting File-Export-Using Compressor.
The Compressor program opens and there you can select the DVD preset in the Settings window. -
Thank you very much for your quick reply.
Your trick about “Enable Final Cut Studio color compatibility” worked and some of the colors godt back. However, I still find quite a difference between the video I see in the fcp viewfinder and qt-player.
Now in regards to HDV. HDV-footage is already compressed to taking it to “compressor” is not necessary, right? – Can you just put it directly in DVD SP or Encore?
One more thing, regarding the interlacing – you know how I can get rid of that?
Thanks
/Lasse
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To me more precise in the difference of color-depth I have made a screendump: left is the qt-version with the “Enable Final Cut Studio color compatibility” turned on and right is the fcp-viewfinder.
https://www.mybestfriendgoogle.com/color_difference.jpg
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HDV is mpeg2 but not the right flavour for DVD which needs standard def mpeg2. Compressor is a program and yes it is needed to convert your HDV to the correct mpeg2 for a DVD.
The canvas/viewer in FCP is not a reference for color, contrast or resolution. Set to 100% it is more accurate but never for color balanceIf you are actually getting a change in color between FCP and your quicktime, I would be surprised. Try dropping the QT back into an FCP timeline. Do you have a reason to deinterlace, as it will throw away resolution.
Ultimately you need an external monitor to accurately assess your footage.
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DVDs only work with interlaced format. So if you deinterlace now, then you would need to bring the interlacing back in the final step, there is no point doing it. You will just loose quality.
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