DVD Architecht

eejackson wrote on 10/15/2003, 6:41 PM

Hi All: I posted this to the DVD Architecht Forum, But I thought maybe someone here might have some insight as well.....

I'm pretty new DVDA. I was wondering if anyone else is having this problem...files rendered in Vegas 4.0 and then burned to DVD using DVDA are so bright that it is almost blinding. Even the preset menu themes that came with DVDA are way too bright once burned to a DVD. Everything looks really good in the preview windows in both Vegas and DVDA, but then I burn a DVD and the outcome is completely different. I viewed the DVD's on 6 different television sets and even tried to adjust the brightness and contrast of the TV's. The whites are so bright that they give off a sort of a glow. I also played the dvd's on 4 different computers. For example, the Wedding theme that came with DVDA once burned to a dvd is so bright that the already faint gold wedding rings completely dissappear. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

Randy Brown wrote on 10/15/2003, 6:48 PM

Sorry I don't have any advice but I've never had this problem nor heard of it.
Good luck,
Randy

BillyBoy wrote on 10/15/2003, 6:53 PM

Sounds like maybe you didn't view your project on an external monitor to check levels.

eejackson wrote on 10/15/2003, 7:45 PM

Hi BillyBoy: Thank you for the input. BTW I love your website and refer to it often. I just had one more question for you. I really don't know anything about levels or external monitors, but since you mentioned it, I'll ask anyway. If I checked the levels on an external monitor, I could understand that this would help me out with the Vegas files I render, but what about the DVD Themes in DVDA? For instance, the white areas in the Themes for Wedding, Love1, Love2, Fading Blue, and Sketch are blinding once burned to a DVD.

BillyBoy wrote on 10/15/2003, 9:43 PM

You are correct, I kind of jumped the gun. I just tired the Wedding template and while it looks cream color when viewed on a computer monitor it is very bright, almost pure white (R 247 G 247 B 240) and therefore looks very stark even on a properly calibrated monitor.

So... what you do:

The template backgrounds are just regular format images. You can access them directly by going to the root location. By default

C:\Program Files\Sonic Foundry\DVD Architect 1.0\_Themes\wedding1.thm

Using Window Explorer for example you can just copy to your desktop. Now open in Vegas. Just drop it on the timeline. I just did for the heck of it, I wanted to see the RGB values. If you move your cursor over it, then drop the color corrector filter on it then look at the images in scopes you'll see the waveform is way over to the extreme right which is why it is so bright.

Easy to fix. Once you have the color filter on it, (just drop it on it on the timeline) try changing the high color wheel to about a angle of 187 and magnitude to about 160. Change the middle color wheel to about 150 and 570 and you'll start to get that more cream color back. To fine tune adjust Gamma to around 850-900 and cut back a little on gain. Finish by pushing up saturation and you'll get more gold in the rings. Save and it should look at lot better for DVD's, just remember it won't look as good in DVD-A and it will be darker than it will on TV. I'll try a rewriteable format to adjust to a more pleasing color.

A good reason why it would be nice if DVD-A also supported exporting to an external monitor for catching thinks like this.

I must be having a brain fart, I forgot how to add a template in DVD-A at the moment. Oh well, you can just use Inser background Media and it will take the image you corrected in Vegas.

eejackson wrote on 10/16/2003, 12:25 AM

Thank You so much BillyBoy. This newbie truely appreciates the response as well as the insightful step by step instructions on how to correct the situation. Thanks Again !!!