TMPGEnc darkens video--can anyone help?

[Tom101]

Hello,

I encoded NTSC video using TMPGEnc. I burned the resulting MPEG-2 file onto a DVD-RW and viewed the video using a set top player and a production monitor, which I carefully set up using Premiere’s NTSC colour bars; the bars were fed to the monitor directly from the timeline, using an RCA-BNC cable.

The MPEG-2 video, viewed from the DVD-RW/set top player on that same monitor, is much darker than the original AVI video (viewed from the timeline).

I tried disabling the “output basic YCbCR” option in TMPGEnc and re-encoding, but while it solves the problem for PAL video, it does not solve it at all with NTSC video, whose blacks remain incredibly dark.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Tom.

[Tommyknocker]

Would these functions help?

[Tom101]

Many thanks for the reply. Is there a particular reason for which TMPGEnc darkens the video?

More importantly, is there a scientific way of knowing by how much to compensate, or must I eyeball it?

Thanks,

Tom.

[trimipi2]

TOM:
I am having the same problem. Did you ever figure out a good solution for this dilemna? I would prefer not to use the filters in TMPGenc. I'd like to know why it's changing the contrast, and tell it to stop. hehe.

THanks in advance for any info you may provide.