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PAL Washed Out?
I’ve got a project that was shot in HDV PAL 25p down converted to SD for editing until final approvals from Europe. It looks really good until I make a burned DVD. The colors have become very washed out. I compressed at 60 min high quality encode using compressor and the mgeg2 file looks good in the DVDSP simulator. I’m using my computer monitor to check the PAL DVD since I don’t have a PAL monitor & player, yea I know, can’t use computer monitors to test color (I’m working on that), but I put the PAL video window next to the FCP canvas window on the same monitor and there is a big difference in color. When I compared the PAL color in the simulator from DVDSP, the colors were fine, proving that the mpeg2 compression was successful. After the PAL DVD was burned, and I did a final check and the color was washed out. I can’t help but to think there is something to help this. Or is this just an issue with a PAL formatted DVD vs. my computer monitor? Any ideas? I would much rather send the best quality to my contacts in Europe.
Thanks in advance,
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3 Replies
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FCP lies to you in it’s monitor. You must view on a PAL monitor, or you’re not seeing it right.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Thanks Graeme,
Can you help me to understand why the final burn to dvd made it look different? I understand that the monitor will lie to me, but now I’m getting two different lies and that makes me think there’s a conspiracy going on.
Thanks again,
eric -
I guess both the DVD player and FCP must alter Y’CbCr video in a 2.5 gamma to play properly on an RGB monitor with 1.8 gamma. I think they both do it a little differently that’s all.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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