Color Intensity Problem

FrankLP wrote on 5/27/2005, 5:42 AM
I have just upgraded to DVD3 and like the changes Sony has made. But I am having the following problem.
I created an animated Background (using AE 6.5) for my DVD Project. Exported it as an uncompressed AVI (all looks great when played by Media Palyer). Imported it into DVD3 as the background. (all looks great in preview). After burning the DVD, the background animation colors (reds & blues) are way too intense, but the video itself looks fine. I trialed and errored for about 3 hours before giving up for the night. This same file and methodology worked perfectly with DVD2.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Comments

bStro wrote on 5/27/2005, 1:21 PM
After burning the DVD, the background animation colors (reds & blues) are way too intense, but the video itself looks fine.

Are you watching it on a TV or on a computer? If on a TV, how does the burned DVD look when you watch it on a computer?

If you have the capability, use DVDA's external monitor to preview the original video on a television; how does this compare to the same video on computer?

Rob
FrankLP wrote on 5/27/2005, 2:26 PM
Hi Rob,
Thanks for responding. I've watched on both my TV and my computer. Wierd thing...the burned DVD video looks fine on both, but the "background menu" screen has intensified colors.

When I preview just the AVI file (of the background) on either Windows Media Player, DVD3's preview and/or AE6.5, it looks fine too. It's just the burned DVD that has the color problem with th background.

Any help is appreciated.
BillyBoy wrote on 5/28/2005, 8:41 AM
This sounds like (just guessing) a color space issue. Several recent threads in the video forum that discussed this in more detail. I haven't done any testing myself, others claim that Vegas when doing generated media ie, making a background as you did is done in 4:4:4 color space, while rendering to MPEG-2 when you're getting ready to make a DVD the color space is lower. Again, just guessing, perhaps AE does a similar thing or its levels is different than the settings you used in Vegas which results in the satutation getting over done.
FrankLP wrote on 5/28/2005, 10:40 AM
Thanks for the suggestion BillyBoy,
It's rather strange though that I didn't have this problem with DVDA2, so I may go back and burn a couple using DVDA2 just to compare.
farss wrote on 5/28/2005, 2:47 PM
You really need to check using the same colors in DVDA 2 and DVDA 3. Some colors that'll render fine in 4.4.4 will not work in 4.2.0 which is what DVDs use. Also as you're feeding the signal from the DVD player to the TV using a composite connection that can also play havoc with colors that are at the outer limits.
Bob.
FrankLP wrote on 5/28/2005, 6:26 PM
Yeah I think you're right Bob. I'll try to burn the same DVD in DVDA2 tonight so I can compare it to DVDA3. I'll you all know how it goes. Thanks.
FrankLP wrote on 6/5/2005, 10:13 AM
Well I must just be seeing things...I burned on DVDA2 and it looks the same as DVDA3. So I've mad adjustments to the file in AE6.5, and all is well. Thanks all.
jassim wrote on 1/20/2006, 8:16 PM
hi,

i do have about the same problem right now.

- colour correct using external TV
-rendering my project to mpeg2 using vegas 6 " a tiny colour droping"
-creating a dvd using dvdA 3
-play the dvd with a sony dvd player "use the same tv" i get intens colour and the contrast is high
-playing it on pc is much better

but what worrys me is , why the colour of my video changes from vegas to dvd using same monitor. i cant do anywork right now coz i can't trust my coulrs showing in vegas anymore.

if it is the colour settings between vegas and dvdA what should i change

thanx
jazz