[Darrin Smith]

True! And you good folks are a huge help!

[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

[Darrin Smith]

I’ve played the DVD on my TV that’s not a flat screen.

I also played it on my computer. They both show that some of the high lights are blown out.

The Windows Media Audio/Video file looks fantastic that I rendered to put on a flash drive.

That interm file, I’m going to have to have my friend help me with that.

Thanks.

[Darrin Smith]

Oh, listen, I screwed up! When I said AVI I meant WMV file!

Also, all these images are of stills. I’m doing a documentary taken from Jpgs. I’m a photographer and know when not to blow out the whites when I take the image in photoshop. That’s why I’m so anal about this project. I made sure that the white area’s weren’t washed out. So when they sometimes were in the final DVD, it ticked me off. Also what would the extention be with the file you told me to look at? Like I said before, my friend helped me out and I’m new at this DVD rendering process.

Thanks again!

Darrin

[Darrin Smith]

Hi Nick,

Yes, the data came from the DVD itself.

The AVI file was rendered from Vegas after I was finished editing my project and it’s a great looking file. I’ve heard that one can render an AVI file into an Mpeg2 codec in Vegas. Would you recommend that?

If your interested, I could take a screen shot of the 2 different formats showing the same subject matter so you can visually compare apples to apples and send it to your email. Or isn’t that type of thing permitted here? I’ve only been on this site a couple of times so I’m a newbe and don’t know the protocol.

Thanks again,

Darrin

[Darrin Smith]

Hi Bob,

The DVD I burned looks like the quality of a VHS tape with highlights that don’t exist in the original AVI. I just posted some specs from MediaInfo that I was told to download. Please look at those and hopefully it will give you some more clues! Thanks for your interest in my problem Bob. I really appreciate your willingness to aid my quest in better video production

Darrin

[Darrin Smith]

OK….Thanks for the tip. This is the spec from the DVD that I burned. My friend who burned the disc told me to post this: The file was rendered using the Main Concepts MPEG2 DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen template.

Now here are the spec to it:

General
Complete name : F:VIDEO_TSVTS_01_2.VOB
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 1 000 MiB
Duration : 22mn 5s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 6 330 Kbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
Duration : 22mn 5s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 6 012 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 9 500 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.580
Stream size : 950 MiB (95%)

Audio
ID : 189 (0xBD)-128 (0x80)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Muxing mode : DVD-Video
Duration : 22mn 5s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : -378ms
Stream size : 30.3 MiB (3%)

Hope this will see if were doing it right! Thanks for your help and interest Nick! I appreciate you helping me out tremendously!

[Darrin Smith]

The resolution that’s on the DVD isn’t as good as the AVI. In the mpeg2 codec, the video is washed out in some bright spots on the DVD but not on the Windows AVI file. Hope this helps. I wish I could get as good of an image on as the AVI file brings me! Is this possible?

[Darrin Smith]

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?

[Darrin Smith]

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.