Reddish looking to stills...

clearvu wrote on 11/14/2003, 12:14 PM

Has anybody noticed how scanned stills always have too much red color to them?

Is there a way of correcting the picture without having to burn a disk and then see what it looks like on TV? I fiddled with the image using PHotoshop, but it seems I have to burn multiple DVD's before it looks right.

I have no problem manipulating the look within VEGAS and and immediately seeing the results on an external monitor, however, DVDA does not have "external monitor" capabilities.

Any suggestions?

Comments

Softcorps wrote on 11/14/2003, 5:03 PM

What are you using to judge the correct color balance? Is your TV calibrated properly? There is no reason that the scanner, or the MPEG encoder, should favor the color red. It's possible that your TV or the computer monitor is punching up the reds somehow. Due to the picture tube phosphors Sony uses in the Trinitron TV, they have always had some pretty intense reds right out of the box from the factory.

Also, fully saturated red is one of the most difficult colors for a television to reproduce, particulary in NTSC land.

James

BillyBoy wrote on 11/14/2003, 6:32 PM

Like James suggested, rule out your TV first. Newer ones have a tint control beyond changing the hue so you can tilt it toward warmer (red) and cooler(blue).

Since both Vegas and DVD-A share the same encoder I don't see how DVD-A adds anything or shifts towards red, sounds more like your scanner if not your TV. You could use any screen capture utility to take a snap shot of the DVD-A menu page then bring it back in to Vegas and color adjust that way.

Need more info.

Remember a scanner's color space while likely RGB can operate in a slightly different color space than your monitor and for sure different than your TV. For example the latest version of Photoshop now includes "profiles" of popular printers like the Epson 900 and also many popular scanners making it easier to match colors for printed documents.

clearvu wrote on 11/15/2003, 4:26 PM

My TV is a SONY. Checked out the settings and it was set to "VIVID". I changed it to standard and it did make a huge difference.

However, while the REDS are not so intense, they still seem a bit on the high side.

As for my HP scanner, any prints I make turn out absolutely fine, so the scanner doesn't seem at fault.

I'll fiddle some more and see what happens.

craftech wrote on 11/16/2003, 8:19 AM

Is there a filter applied to the part of the video which contains the stills? In other words did you correct the video portion and forget to split and separate the still sequence from it so the correction didn't affect the stills as well?

Secondly, don't you have another TV to try it on just to compare? Although in terms of red, I have found that the Panasonic TVs favor ot more than the Sonys.

John