Scenarist NTSC DVD Menus look brighter and higher contrast

[snoopycml]

I am creating menus in Photoshop, and they look just fine, The colors look like I want them to, but then I author the DVD, and the menus look brighter, with a weird contrast.

In the Simulation window the menus look just like they should, then I author the DVD and the Menus all of a sudden look bright, like the saturation and contrast were turned way up.

I am authoring an NTSC DVD. I have played the DVD on my DVD player through my TV, and through my DVD-Rom on my computer, and Both look basically the same. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

[adam]

Pc's use a range of colors from 0-255 but tv's only support the smaller range of 16-325 (8-235 in some regions) so if something has been created on the pc it may have colors in it which a tv simply cannot display. If you do not first compress your colors to CCIR601 spec, than any colors outside of the legal range just get clipped, which can lead to overly bright, overly dark, or overly saturated colors.

Try doing this. In photoshop go to Filters/Video/NTSC colors and see if that solves your problem, without altering the color too much. The sad fact is that for tv playback, you have less colors to work with so it may never look exactly as it did on the pc.

I know you said that the disk was still off even on your pc, which does support the full range of colors, but I'm thinking that maybe the clipping occurred during the encoding of your still picture in the DVD authorer.