DVD Menus are brighter when viewed from DVD player on TV
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hagadorn
DVD Menus are brighter when viewed from DVD player on TV
My DVD menus display a lot brighter on my TV screen than they looked on my computer. I've looked at them on 3 different TV sets. Can I adjust the brightness and other image qualities of the menus?
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Terry Stetler
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Video previewed on a monitor is very often darker than when played on a CRT TV because each uses a different color scheme, or "gamut".
Some editors turn up their displaly drivers "gamma" when editing to mitigate this. If it helps it's useful to create a custom profile for this setting, if the drivers permit, so you can switch back & forth. Others have monitors that have a dedicated setting you can switch to that helps a bit.
You also should be aware that when exporting for display on a TV you should turn on the NTSC/PAL video filter in File/Preferences/Edit.
This will reduce the color intensities in your output to match what CRT TV's can display, which is not the full range of colors possible in an editor. Without this filter the editor will output a full 0-255 RGG range of intensities on each color channel.
Problem is that TV's can only properly display intensities from ~16-235 ...sometimes less esp. on an older one. When presented with a color it can't properly display a TV will cause the color to "bloom"; the color will look too intense and have an indistinct edge, mostly on the right side of the image.
This is particularly a problem with the red channel, but all 3 channels (red, green & blue) are susceptible.
Some editors turn up their displaly drivers "gamma" when editing to mitigate this. If it helps it's useful to create a custom profile for this setting, if the drivers permit, so you can switch back & forth. Others have monitors that have a dedicated setting you can switch to that helps a bit.
You also should be aware that when exporting for display on a TV you should turn on the NTSC/PAL video filter in File/Preferences/Edit.
This will reduce the color intensities in your output to match what CRT TV's can display, which is not the full range of colors possible in an editor. Without this filter the editor will output a full 0-255 RGG range of intensities on each color channel.
Problem is that TV's can only properly display intensities from ~16-235 ...sometimes less esp. on an older one. When presented with a color it can't properly display a TV will cause the color to "bloom"; the color will look too intense and have an indistinct edge, mostly on the right side of the image.
This is particularly a problem with the red channel, but all 3 channels (red, green & blue) are susceptible.
Terry Stetler
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hagadorn
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Terry Stetler
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- Joined: Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:34 pm
- Location: Westland, Michigan USA
These things will affect both the menu's and the video playback unless you're using already DVD compliand MPEG's as your sources. In that case you could see a difference between video and menu.
The only way to get the menu's intensity under control in that situation is to apply the NTSC/PAL filter in Preferences. That will take the menu's color intensities down from 255 to roughly 165 to 235, depending on the color in question.
You should also be careful that the TV's not out of adjustment. More common than you think.
The only way to get the menu's intensity under control in that situation is to apply the NTSC/PAL filter in Preferences. That will take the menu's color intensities down from 255 to roughly 165 to 235, depending on the color in question.
You should also be careful that the TV's not out of adjustment. More common than you think.
Terry Stetler