[Jeff Pulera]

In Sequence Settings, uncheck Composite in Linear Color.

Done.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Many or most consumer monitors cannot accept 24p signals for instance since that is not a standard used by broadcasters. 1080i or 720p60 would be acceptable standards in the US that all TVs should handle, can’t speak for PAL situations.

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Jeff

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Dan,

PC or Mac? The free FFMPEG application can convert many sources to ProRes, have used that on PC.

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Jeff

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[Jeff Pulera]

I opened your image in Photoshop and checked the text color and red was at 239, so not bad. However the green and blue channels are 32 and 36, so the image is primarily RED. One trick is to increase the other colors equally, for instance using 60 for both green and blue and you will be surprised to find that the color is not that visually dissimilar to the original, but being less saturated it might behave better.

One trick I have heard of that could help with situations like this is to ADD NOISE to the image, so it is not just two solid colors crashing directly into one another. The noise will make the image look more organic to the encoder and that might work better.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Tero is correct. When working inside the computer, every pixel can have its own unique color assigned. However, with compressed video output formats you have either a 4:2:2, or more likely a 4:2:0 color space which means a LOT of the color data has been discarded unfortunately. That is done to prevent HUGE video files.

So rather than each pixel having it’s own unique color, like either red or pink exclusively, neighboring pixels of different colors are forced to “share” a common color, perhaps an average of what each pixel ought to be by itself. Meaning you can’t get a clean transition from one solid color to another. In a typical video frame (or photo image) this lack of color fidelity does not manifest itself so obviously as we see with the solid color text and would go unnoticed to the viewer.

To help clean this up, try reducing the chroma in the text. For instance, each of the 3 color channels (Red, Green, Blue) in the title can have a value between 0 and 255. The closer to 255, the more “saturation” or chroma you have and the more likely it will give you trouble. For instance, one might use “pure” red at 255 thinking it looks really nice on the computer, however you might find that lowering to say 235 won’t look that much different on the video output, while potentially providing better results.

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But definitely, you will need to make some kind of changes to the color scheme or you will continue to fight this issue.

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PPRO Export:
H264 35Mb/sec 1920×1080/29.97
High 4.1 and Max Render Quality…..

Is that using the H.264 BLU-RAY preset, or just regular H.264 export? Should ALWAYS use the Blu-ray preset, as anything else will just need to be transcoded again in Encore = extra time and quality loss. Also, you say “29.97”, is that Progressive? Because Blu-ray will not accept 1080p30, must be 1080i. A screen shot would keep me from asking all these questions ????

If you do a test, I bet you would not be able to detect any visual playback difference between 25mbps and 35mbps encoded material – I think pushing the data rate up high is just asking for trouble.

As for Max Render, my understanding is that only really benefits quality when SCALING the outputs, like 1080p to 720p, or HD to SD – should be no need for that, just takes longer to export.

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Jeff

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[Jeff Pulera]

Just to clarify, “resolution” refers to the frame size, for instance 1920×1080 is HD resolution while 720×480 is SD resolution. This is not “quality” which I think you are using to refer to bit rate perhaps?

Again, would like to see Export Settings if possible so we’re on the same page with what kind of media you are actually exporting for use in Encore. I have no idea if it is MPEG-2 for Blu-ray, H.264 for Blu-ray, or something else?

There is a Preview Playback Quality setting in Encore, not sure how much it helps with actual playback performance. I keep mine set to HIGH, otherwise preview looks very poor using the default Automatic setting. Have not had playback issues doing so, but I don’t know how fast your computer might be.

About placing chapter marks one frame after scene change – that may not work as expected if using Encore-ready material, which has GOPs in it with keyframes. You might think you are putting the marker on a certain frame, when in reality Encore will actually place it on the NEAREST GOP which could then put the marker before the scene change by a few frames! I use the frame advance button with ALT key which actually jumps from GOP to GOP to show me where exactly I can place a chapter marker without it moving on me. For NTSC DVD, those are at 15-frame intervals normally, not sure about Blu-ray.

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Hi Jan,

Not sure if I’m the right Jeff, but I don’t know what this means – “I’ve enabled highest resolution in PPRO export”.

Do you mean that you are using a higher-quality codec perhaps? Can you please post a screen shot of the Export Settings panel? That will be most helpful to anyone trying to assist.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Export a short piece and import to compare to original, how does that look? Previews can be deceiving

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Nathan,

If the Sequence Settings do not match the Source Video specs, that could be an issue. For instance, 1080p footage in an SD (NTSC) sequence is being converted from HD to SD so yes, that will look soft.

What are the source specs and sequence settings used?

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Jeff

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