Why The Filmmachine makes DVD green...and VCD to DVD vs AVI

[Krazyhorse]

Ok, I have two part questions:

1. I have an avi movies and I used The Filmmachine to convert it to DVD. When it was done, the color was all wrong. I mean everything else looks fine but human skin looks light blue....more like dead people.

Does anybody know why? how do you make such correction to look as normal people?


2. I tried to browse this site for how to convert vcd to avi and I can't find any information. My question is, is there such software?

You might ask why convert to avi? my answer is I want to convert it to DVD, but I can't.


I find it easier to join AVI and convert it to DVD than from VCD to DVD.

In other words, I have software that can convert from AVI to DVD but I do not have software that convert from VCD to dvd. Therefore, if I can convert it to avi then I can go from there ( I think?).


Cany anybody help me here? thanks for whatever you can help me with.

-KH

[ZippyP.]

1. Sounds like a codec problem, check the avi with Gspot and make sure you have the codec installed.

2. "Converting" a VCD to DVD is relatively simple. The video is DVD compliant so all you do is extract the mpeg then use a program like TMPGEnc DVD Author. It will create your menus and it will automatically resample the audio to DVD standard 48 KHz. Guide here. You should be able to fit 5 on a DVD.

Don't re-encode if you want to maintain quality. VCD > AVI > DVD is encoding twice, double the loss.

Edit: If you need to join any clips then you can do that within the authoring program by putting the clips onto the same track.

[redwudz]

I agree the color being off is probably a codec problem. If the original AVI is off in color, you can use Virtualdub with a HSV or red/green/blue filter to correct it.