Oversaturated colors

ritsmer wrote on 9/17/2009, 8:08 AM
This is surely due to my own missing knowledge :-) but today I had to burn a DVD for the first time.
I rendered to 1280x720p m2t and the burnt video got over-saturated.

Then I checked the manual :-))) and rendered to DVD Architect PAL widescreen - but still the result is heavily over-saturated.
Could anybody pls. give me a hint?
Of course I can desaturate the colors etc - but what I would expect is that the way Raw video > Vegas pro > DVD-architect would maintain the color-space - so probably I have missed a setting somewhere??

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 9/17/2009, 9:56 AM
It sounds like you're adding video into DVD Architect directly from your camcorder, and that you're trying to create a standard resolution DVD from an HDV video file. Is that the case?

I'd recommend that you open that video in Vegas and then export it from Vegas as a DVD-quality MPEG, then load that file into DVD Architect. That's one way to ensure excellent results from DVD Architect!
pete-schaefers wrote on 9/17/2009, 12:05 PM
I'm assuming from "rendered to DVD Architect PAL widescreen" that you are using Vegas to prepare the files for DVDA.

Does it look ok in the DVDA preview? If not, then the problem is in the Vegas rendered file. Possibly you have a filter set in Vegas, but the Vegas preview is set to bypass (so you don't notice it there). Or you possibly some of the Advanced Video settings are messed up in the custom setting of the codec.

If the rendered file and DVD looks ok in DVDA preview, then the file is ok. As for what's causing the color to over saturate... I can't think of any control DVDA has over that. If you are using Smart Prepare data, I would suggest you tel it to not use that and re-render everything, in case that data has become corrupt.
ritsmer wrote on 9/18/2009, 12:10 AM
Thank you for the ideas.

Now the problem is found:

The colors on DVD made from Vegas + DVD Architect are perfect, but the combination of our DVD-player and the LCD screen gives the oversaturation.

I will adjust the DVD-player.

Laurence wrote on 10/4/2009, 8:24 PM
The problem is not how your DVD player is set. It's the fact that you are viewing sRGB (Studio RGB) on your Vegas preview window, but your DVD player is expecting cRGB (computer RGB) color.

This is all explained quite well http://www.glennchan.info/articles/vegas/v8color/vegas-9-levels.htmhere[/link], although if you're like me, it may take you a little while to get your head around it.

The part of the article that you need to focus on is the part labeled Example Workflow - 8-Bit Vegas project with mostly video clips