Movies getting darker on DVD

[jarleb]

I have made a DVD with Pinnacle Impression with the following steps:

Exporting movie in DV AVI format from Adobe Premiere
Importing movie into Pinnacle Impression
Made menus
Rendered and burned the project to a DVD (DVD-R)

It works flawless, and Im very satisfied with the result, except from that the movies is appearing darker on the DVD than on the originate DV version. Some scenes are even hard to see for some reason.

Any ideas what this could be?

[kitty]

The colorspace for DV and DVD are different (4:2:0 & 4:2:2 don't ask me which is which) so I have heard/read that this can be an issue. You might use Premiere to adjust the video if you are using the steps you mentioned - it has the power & flexibility to do filtering. Now exactly what filter, etc. I don't know offhand but a Premiere board or website probably has a guide on it.