Colour washing out

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Mon May 23, 2005 12:59 am

I have captured a high quality Hi-8 video tape to a 15GB AVI file. The colour on the preview window during capture was excellent - good depth, as Hi-8 tape should be. I then rendered it at quality setting 100% and 9500Kb bit rate. It was a long shot that MF4 would actually do this without producing sizing or other error messages, but to my absolute surpise it produced a nice 4GB ISO file. Burning to DVD using Nero was OK, but while the DVD image is very high resolution the colour seems to have been washed out a fair bit. Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks.

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Mon May 23, 2005 1:01 am

Sorry I forgot to say - I use a Canon digital camera as an AV/DV converter then Firewire to the PC.

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon May 23, 2005 2:29 am

Did you have a setting for "7.5 IRE" or "SETUP" on your preview during the conversion (on your camcorder)?

I suspect you have added 7.5 setup, and then your DVD Player might be doing it again -- this can result in "washed out" video.

Also, 9500kbps is OVERKILL considering the source video. I think 6000kbps should be fine given your hi8-converted-to-dv video.

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Mon May 23, 2005 4:00 am

Don't know what "7.5 IRE" is George. Also I cannot find it on the Canon menus. I though it would just do a straight 'pass through'. Thanks

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon May 23, 2005 10:47 am

what make and model number is your camcorder?

did you apply any auto-enchance filters or color correction to your video (in MF or any other software)?

DV Video usually looks darker on your computer monitor, but plays fine when viewed on a TV. If you adjusted your video to look "normal" (i.e. not dark anymore) on your computer, then that would explain why it would look "brighter" on a TV.

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Mon May 23, 2005 10:54 am

Canon MV600i (different model number overseas - ie out of OZ). No colour enhancements etc (I would not know how to do it!) - just straight in and out of MF4 to the PC via the Canon.
Thanks

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:09 am

Thanks to GeorgeW I can now view my ISO images. They are perfectly colourful. The colour wash out must then be due to either Nero, which I use to burn the ISO to disk, or the disks themselves. I trust Nero, so the only conclusion is that the TDK blanks I use are not as good as they used to be. 12 months ago, a 4x TDK DVD blank and case cost A$5. Now an 8x costs A$.80 cents. I believe that in an attempt to counter a flood of cheap Chinese imports, TDK has matched their price but also matched their quality, which could be very poor. Can anyone else verify this? If so, is there still a genuine quality DVD blank out there? If not, what the hell is happening to the world when all you can buy is cheap and nasty???
Thanks