DVDA2 render is highly saturated... ?

Gimme wrote on 8/15/2004, 7:14 PM
I just rendered my first DVD with Architect 2 today and all my video had very high saturation and contrast. I rendered my video in Vegas 5 using the NTSC DVD with default settings and used all the default settings in Architect (8000 bit rate, etc.). All my video looked perfect beforehand, and I don't see any saturation/contrast settings anywhere in Architect, so I'm a bit confused.

I've created several DVDs using Ulead Workshop 1 & 2 and just changed over to this program, and I've used the Vegas products for years, so I hope I'm just missing something stupid. :)

Any help would be appreciated!

ps - The AC3 encoding I got out of Vegas/Architect seemed overly quiet, and changing anything in the AC3 encoding template didn't seem to help... am I missing something there as well?

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bStro wrote on 8/15/2004, 7:29 PM
When you notice the "high saturation and contrast," are you watching the disc on a TV or on a computer? If you test on both, how does one compare to the other, since as you probably know, colors can look different from one to the other. Did / can you preview the original MPEG2 on an external monitor (ie, connect a camcorder or converter box to you 1394 port, and connect that to a televison, and preview the MPEG2 from DVDA or from Vegas)?

If you're bringing an already DVD-compliant MPEG2 into DVDA, and it sounds like you are, all DVDA is going to do is make it a VOB. I can't really see why it would even touch the the coloring or contrast.

As for your AC3 issue, I haven't experienced it but I've heard of it happening to others. Do a search of the Vegas forum or the AC3 Encoder forum, and you may find a solution (or at least confirmation of the problem).

Rob
Gimme wrote on 8/15/2004, 7:44 PM
Thanks for the ideas, Rob! I took the disc over to my TV player and it looked fine. I was using the player (PowerDVD) on the computer I was using, and found there was a contrast setting in its configuration that I never noticed before... the darn thing was set to High, of course. Looks just great now. :)

As for the AC3, you can guess the results of that by now... worked just fine on the TV player as well as my other computer (which has WinDVD). So I now have PowerDVD setup closer to both my other players to make sure I can compare apples to apples now (sound volume and video-wise).

Thanks again,
Jeff