Photos Lighten when production burned to DVD

[Roxann (sis)]

Me again?!

When I create a production in videowave and use it in MyDvd, it previews great...then I burn it & when I watch it on the DVD player, the photos are lightened (bright), some too light. If I burn it again, they get even lighter. I have 3 dvd burners, one external & two internal, and have tried them on all three, with the same results. I'm burning them in 8x and was wondering if 4x would help?

Thanks again for your help.

[ggrussell]

Any chance you have a nVidia card and you updated to the latest driver? I noticed something similar, but not in burning. When I use Windows Media Player, all the videos are too bright. When played in PowerDVD 7 which supports nVidia PureVideo technology, the video looks fine.

 

I'm thinking about rolling back to the previous driver.

[Roxann (sis)]

Any chance you have a nVidia card and you updated to the latest driver? I noticed something similar, but not in burning. When I use Windows Media Player, all the videos are too bright. When played in PowerDVD 7 which supports nVidia PureVideo technology, the video looks fine.

 

I'm thinking about rolling back to the previous driver.

 

My video card is ATI Unified AVStream Driver 1/4/2007 vs6.14.10.226 (upgraded the driver this week to see if that would help....no)

[jeanrosenfeld]

If you are using Windows Media player, you can adjust brightness/contrast (and hue) in the player using the video settings enhancement.

 

I forget the precise location in WMP 10, but in WMP 11, click on the little arrow head below the Now Playing tab, click Enhancements, click Video settings. Or View menu, Enhancements is another way to get there.

[Roxann (sis)]

Me again?!

When I create a production in videowave and use it in MyDvd, it previews great...then I burn it & when I watch it on the DVD player, the photos are lightened (bright), some too light. If I burn it again, they get even lighter. I have 3 dvd burners, one external & two internal, and have tried them on all three, with the same results. I'm burning them in 8x and was wondering if 4x would help?

Thanks again for your help.

 

The dvd pics looked fine on my pc, but were lighter when I played them on my dvd player...well, I wondered if there was a setting on the dvd player that could be adjusted to make them darker....sure enough...video output on the dvd player...I set it to 'darker' and when I play the Roxio dvd it looks fine....a person has to be almost an electronic genius to figure all this stuff out!! But staying techable is what keeps the brain young!!

Thanks, again.

[gi7omy]

Actually - if you check the TV controls (on the remote these days) there's always a setting for 'brightness' and another for 'contrast'

[Roxann (sis)]

Actually - if you check the TV controls (on the remote these days) there's always a setting for 'brightness' and another for 'contrast'

 

I had checked the TV settings out first...but the dvd player is what made the difference, because my TV settings were fine....thanks though for the response.

[gi7omy]

As a former service engineer I do know that most TVs are very badly set up. The recommended way is this:

 

1: Reduce contrast and chroma (colour) to minimum on an empty channel

2: bring up brightness until the raster is barely visible and back off until it just vanishes and no more

3: Go to a broadcast channel and increase contrast until you have a good black and white picture

4: increase the chroma until the flesh tones are reasonably correct

 

We don't have a 'hue' control here - the PAL colour system automatically corrects phase errors that seem to be common in the NTSC colour system

[sknis]

I had checked the TV settings out first...but the dvd player is what made the difference, because my TV settings were fine....thanks though for the response.

There are also some programs/devices that you can buy to set up your monitor to be color tuned (calibrated). These devices will help make sure that you are seeing the image (video) properly on your monitor and will help set up your monitor so that printing images will be close to what you see on the monitor. (That doesn't sound right but I think you get my meaning.) One such device is the Spyder 2 for around $100. I bought one a couple of months ago and have re-calibrated my CRT monitor and several laptops. I don't print images that are too bright/dark/saturated, etc. Of course the DVD will look pretty much like what your computer monitor shows.

[gi7omy]

Arr Steve Lad

 

She be talking about the Gogglebox in the corner of the living room, arr me hearty