TMPGE takes my TV shows to the cleaners.

[TMcD]

Has anyone figured a good way to set virtualdub (serving) or TMPGE to correct the washing out or is it the brightness/contrast it adds?

I'm trying to get the picture back to how it looks before TMPGE gets its hands on my TV show.

Thanks,
Troy

[Vejita-sama]

What (if any) codec are you using to capture? Is the capture from a VHS, direct, or digitial source?

Try either using no compress or a lostless codec like huffyuv. Up the bitrate of your encoded MPEG, and set motion search to high.

[TMcD]

Vejita-sama,

Thanks for the response.

I am using Huffy. Setting are constant quality (min 1845/max 2560) 352 X 480.

VHS source (very good recordings).

Motion was set to normal and now trying very slow (the highest).
(I didn't know that motion search would lighten scenes that have some brightness in them, ie sunlight coming in from a window, or a white shirt with black lines.)

Troy

[vhelp]

TMcD,

Hi, ...is your end goal to watch on your PC ?? It kind of sounds that way.
Cause you shoudn't have problems with your color if you're making CDs
to be watched on your TV.

Can you give MUCH mure details on your:
* Capturing, then
* your encoding settings other than ? you have already supplied
* your Huffy codec settings as well

Later.

[TMcD]

vhelp,

End goal is to watch them on my TV.

The clips look good on computer, but once they go through TMPGE the scenes with bright areas (ie sunlight coming in from a window)... it's viewable, but not "perfect".

I also saw someone else pose this question regarding TMPGE on this board, but no difinitve answer.

Troy

[TMcD]

Others experiencing the TMPGEnc "WASH OUT" :

https://www.videohelp.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=66784&forum=3

Troy

[TMcD]

I've been searching the web and people have talked about setting the "Tone" and I just came across an artical that (did not refer to TMPGEnc) but it did refer to using settings for TV or a monitor depending on the final use of the video.

My final use is a TV and my AVI/MPEG2 files look very good on my computer, but is there any information on using VirtualDub/TMPGEnc to create final output geared towards a TV?

I can darken the image, but the solid whites still like to hang on to as much of their whiteness as the rest of the image gets darker. ???

Thanks,
Troy

[flaninacupboard]

first, try reducing the gamma level in tmpgenc, then the contrast level, then play with contrast & gamma & brightness and possibly saturation until you get the desired effect.