Black Level

Ron Lucas wrote on 4/15/2003, 8:52 PM

In VV3, I was able to add the Levels effect and choose the preset "Studio RGB to Computer RGB" before I rendered to WMV. Doing this cause the blacks to stay black. If I didn't do this, my blacks showed a little white.

In V4, this doesn't work anymore. If I render to AVI using the NTSC DV preset, the blacks are black. Rendering to any other format (MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV) the blacks turn out a little white even with the Levels effect using the "Studio RGB to Computer RGB" preset.

Any ideas on how I can make my renders, other than AVI, keep black as black?

Thanks,
Ron

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Ron Lucas wrote on 4/15/2003, 9:02 PM

I took an AVI I made in V4 into Windows Media Encoder 9 and created a WMV file. The end result was the blacks stayed black. There's something in V4 I'm missing if it continues to make my blacks not so black.

Thanks,
Ron

Ron Lucas wrote on 4/15/2003, 9:21 PM

Using the Main Concept stand alone encoder version 1.31 also does not have this problem. Blacks stay black.

V4 seem to have a problem on my system keeping blacks black except when rendering to AVI. If you want to reproduce my problem, crop down an image so there is black around it. Then render to MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, and AVI (NTSC DV). On my system, on the AVI keeps the blacks black.

I forgot to mention I'm using V4.0b.

Thanks,
Ron

Ron Lucas wrote on 4/15/2003, 10:52 PM

Never mind. I found the problem. I have an NVidia video card and somehow the overlay settings for brightness got cranked up. This is a new Dell computer, and I've updated the Nvidia drivers a few times.

Ron