Rendered DVD To Bright!

[Nick White]

OK.Both the TV and the computer show wash-out.

What about the MediaInfo I asked for, for the wmv file that is good? What bitrate does it show? And also, what bit depth? That can also be a factor.

The washout is a matter of the data for the DVD not being enough to handle the dynamic range of the problem shots. Compression will lose data. As I said, you will have to back them off for the DVD. That can be done in the source still, or using Levels in Vegas. I would suggest that you could do it in Vegas by isolating that bit of video in the project as a single clip, then adjusting only that shot, until the DVD output can handle it.

Nick

[Darrin Smith]

Well, good news!

My friend put a filter on it that took care of the brightness issues. Evidently, there is a filter that aids the images to conform to broadcast color specs. Applying this pretty much took care of the highlight issues. The problem that it does create though is if one fades to black and then goes from black and then fades into the image, there is a little bit of overlap of black on some of the image as it fades. But I’ll take that over the problem I was experiencing.

As far as the rendering quality, I guess that I’m expecting it to look like HD at 1080 instead of DVD quality. But, none the less, I sent my video in to get it replicated. I’m looking forward to getting back the first batch of 1,000 DVD’s for my project that I worked on.

Thanks for everyone’s suggestions. I appreciate all that was said!

Darrin

[Nick White]

Glad you are happy with it. Pity about the black fade problem. That broadcast filter is not _really_ the answer, as was talked of on the thread that was posted here earlier. But unless you have Pro, you can’t properly use the better filter anyway.

I still feel that you could process either the source stills, or the slideshow, to achieve a more tuned result.

DVD is no way as good as 1080. 720* either 480 or 576 simply cannot compete. You are also limited to 25P/30P video, which flickers a lot more than 50/60, or even more than well-rendered interlaced videos. You need Blu Ray at least for 1080. I will say though that if you are producing shorter films, you can at least set the bit rate to max allowed by DVDA, so you get as good a result as you can. That is still 9.8Mb/s max, which is way behind what you get from other formats.

Nick

[Mike Kujbida]

[Darrin Smith] “The problem that it does create though is if one fades to black and then goes from black and then fades into the image, there is a little bit of overlap of black on some of the image as it fades.”

The filter that was applied ensures that blacks are at a level of 16 and not the default of 0. When you do a fade to black, you’re fading to 0. The workaround is to apply a separate track of black at 16, either under the faded events or to the entire program. I’ve created two solid color events, one for white at 235-235-235 and one for black at 16-16-16 and saved these as presets ready to dropped on my timeline any time I need them.