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B.Verlik wrote on 7/30/2005, 2:24 AM
Maybe your TV is starting to go. They usually start exaggerating the reds when they're at the 'worn out' stage.
How about, when editing, turning up the "Saturation" too high. That will usually exaggerate the reds too. When you over-exaggerate the color, the reds go out of control 1st.
t-keats wrote on 7/30/2005, 5:59 AM
I think that all DVDs (even the ones you buy of theatrical releases) generally tend to have exagerrated color overall.

If you try outputting part of your same Vegas project to DV tape, play it through the same TV that you view your DVD. See if the color if less saturated than its DVD counterpart.

StormMarc wrote on 7/30/2005, 1:32 PM
I've noticed the problem on multiple TVs and thought perhaps it had something to do with the encoding process. I have to do some more experimenting. I use Sony cameras - perhaps they tend a little red as well and it get exagerated in the conversion.

Thanks,

Marc
B.Verlik wrote on 7/30/2005, 6:34 PM
Yes. I only use Sony D-8s and they are very strong on colors and of course, Red is the 1st to make your TV go wacky. Just look at the signal using the scopes, they go from one extreme to the other.
Also, unless you calibrated your TV, they usually come out of the store with the color setting over-exaggerated and much higher than optimal.
StormMarc wrote on 7/30/2005, 9:43 PM
I am using a calibrated sony broadcast monitor. The thing is I only notice the red problem when transcoded to MPEG and burned onto a DVD. It's not horrible but there is a noticable shift to red.

Thanks for the responses.

Marc
WedVidMan wrote on 7/31/2005, 9:40 AM
I just finished a wedding reception video, rendered it to Mpeg-2 and played it using Microsofts Media Player (ver9) and I too am getting a lot of reds in my video. Was thinking about going back in and downing the reds for the whole video. Wonder if it has anything to do with my broadcast setting of extremely conserative??
craftech wrote on 7/31/2005, 5:54 PM
StormMark,
Sony cameras tend to lean toward Blue in my experience. Not red.
But they usually have a white balance compensation called CP panel where you can shift the balance to either blue or red. That helps.

Also,
What kind of lighting is on the subject matter you shot. Is it stage lighting?

Next issue are your settings when you encode the video to Mpeg2. What are they?

And have you tried another DVD player? They vary in terms of black level.

John
riredale wrote on 7/31/2005, 6:03 PM
A properly-encoded MPEG2 file should look exactly like the raw video source. At lower bitrates, you will start to pick up various jpeg-like artifacts, but color shift ain't one of them. Try a different encoder, or different settings.