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Rendered DVD To Bright!
I had a friend of mine helped me render a DVD that I’m going to be selling. This is my first attempt. The problem is, the picture is too bright on some images and sometimes the highlights are washed out. I hope that this isn’t the norm is it? Is there something that I can do about this? Thanks a head of time!
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Just a quick question to help people help.
What steps do you take to render the DVD?
If you can talk it through step by step that can really help.
Nick
Nick
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Just a quick question to help people help.
What steps do you take to render the DVD?
Nick
Nick
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I’m not sure. I’ll contact him tomorrow and have him share what he did on this post. Thanks for your help!
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No worrie4s.Sorry I can’t have an answer.
Another question.Were the source videos OK and not blown out? It’s probably a daft question, but stuff happens.
Nick
Nick
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Yes. The original video was fine and had plenty of detail and wasn’t blown out!
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This is a problem of color calibration. First, your computer monitor needs to be calibrated by a hardware device to insure that it is displaying both color and luminance accurately. I use a Spyder 4 these days. Second, TVs may look very different depending on what color/luminance standard they use. I don’t have a calibrated TV monitor, so I go through a process of rendering and burning a short short section of video to see how it looks on a TV. I then adjust color and luminance, with another render/burn to check results, until I am satisfied with what I see on the TV. That process may take several tries before I am satisfied, so I use a RW DVD to keep my costs down.
Please note that this is not a problem that Vegas creates. It happens for all image application software.
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When I render it to a Windows Media Audio/Video file so I can put it on a flash drive, it looks fantastic on my monitor. When I render it to a DVD or even on a Blue Ray, it looks crappy on my monitor, and also on a TV and a big screen. I’m trying to get a hold of the guy who helped me render the DVD for this project to help me but am having trouble getting a hold of him.
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I thought you said it looks too bright. Now it looks “crappy”? If you want it to look good on a TV (in terms of brightness or color accuracy), you have to preview it on the TV and adjust it until it looks right on the TV. It doesn’t matter how it looks on your monitor if your target is a TV. I don’t know any other way to say the words.
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Fair enough point, but the OP is saying that it looks bad on both the TV and the monitor. The step that is giving trouble seems to be the making of the DVD, because a rendered video AVI looks good.
Darrin, until you_can_ get hold of the other guy, there is not much anyone can do to help. We need to know what software was used (it may well not even be Vegas: in fact if you try to burn a DVD in Vegas Studio, you cannot “burn” it to Hard Disc Drive at all and have to create a DVD disc) and the steps and settings in that software.
Nick
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The software is Movie Studio Platinum Suite 12 and DVD Architect Studio that came with it. I did rendered 2 versions, DVD and Blu-Ray. My friend said that he was going to post what he did. I am hoping he will do this soon!
Also, I rendered to a AVI file, everything looks crisp and clean. My DVD’s don’t look near as clean as that when they are rendered in the mpg2 format. Why is that? Is there anything I can do so they look just as good? Is this normal?
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