Rendered video looks different...

ADinelt wrote on 1/22/2005, 7:05 PM
Hi folks:

I've noticed a small problem when I render slides and video in Movie Studio 4.

First, with slides, they looked fine when they were scanned in, and looked fine in Adobe Elements as well as in the preview window in MS 4. When I render them out to mpeg2 though, the images look different. The whites are glaring and the darker areas become very dark. Colors are also much more intense.

With video, it looks fine in my JVC GR-DV500 miniDV camcorder and looks fine in the preview window in MS 4. When it is rendered out to mpeg2, it appears to be much darker overall.

Is there some setting in MS that I have missed or has anyone else noticed this?

Thanks in advance...
Al

Comments

gogiants wrote on 1/22/2005, 10:02 PM
Are you seeing the differences when you view the MPEG-2 files on your computer, or are you seeing it when you play a DVD on your TV?
BigEgg wrote on 1/23/2005, 3:36 AM
I noticed the same difference with my videos rendered with MSV 4 & DVDAS and played on TV: they are darker.
ScottW wrote on 1/23/2005, 7:52 AM
How about when you hook your camcorder up to the TV?

Computer monitors are very different than TV's: they use a different color space, TV's are interlaced, computer monitors are progressive, etc. So it would be expected to see some differences between the 2 displays.

This is one of the reasons that Vegas (not VMS) has tools like color correctors and why some folks invest in a TV monitor (broadcast or otherwise) and some additional hardware to hook the monitor up to a firewire connection on the computer so they can do previewing on the external monitor and tweak things like color.

--Scott
ADinelt wrote on 1/23/2005, 9:47 AM
Actually, the video did look pretty good on the TV.

But what I don't understand is why the video looks okay in the preview window of both MS4 and DVD Architect, but dark or glaring whites in mpeg2 on the computer? Maybe I have my dunce cap on right now, but it would seem logical to me that if it is okay in the preview window, it would be okay when rendered.