Color/contrast on DVD

lba1214 wrote on 6/25/2004, 1:36 PM
I 'm using an external monitor (20" new television) to preview in Vegas. I set color balance / contrast / etc and it looks great. When I cut a DVD from Architect and play it the colors and contrast are too intense. I thought by using an external source I would be seeing what I would get. Wassup? To compensate for this I have to tone everything down. Then when I cut the DVD and play it it looks fine but this creates somewhat of a guessing game from an editing standpoint. Is there something that I need to set in DVDA to accomodate? Any helpful pointers appreciated.

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Jay Gladwell wrote on 6/25/2004, 2:01 PM
You and Thomas seem to be having the same problem. Unfortunately, I can't be of any help. I'm not having any trouble with it.

Can you give more detail as to what you're doing in Vegas to "color correct" prior to encoding and burning?

Jay
BillyBoy wrote on 6/25/2004, 2:10 PM
Are both the TV's you use to view the finished product and what you use as your "external" monitor properly calibrated?

See my calibration tutorial for some basic steps you can do without test equipment. While not meant to replace better methods, its better than nothing. In fact some time back (forget which thread) I recounted how I spent a rainly weekend calibrating my external monitor, the big TV in the family room and checking against "pro" test equipment.
epirb wrote on 6/25/2004, 3:05 PM
is it your player? see my post in the thomaskay thread.
lba1214 wrote on 6/26/2004, 7:06 AM
The final DVD looks darker and more sautrated on the same TV that I used for editing (which looks great) and the same thing is happening on every DVD player I've tested. I don't think calibration is an issue because if it was wouldn't it look bad during preview as well?
farss wrote on 6/26/2004, 7:44 AM
This keeps coming up. The DVD player will compress the range of the video to keep it within legal limits. I've run a few tests on this. The encoded mpeg-2 matches source according to the scopes. What comes out of the players composite output does not. Cannot speak for the S-Video or component outputs as yet.