TMPGE Problem (I think I screwed it.....for good)

[ShocWave]

Problem: Every video that is opened gets brighter in TMPGE

I have no idea what happened, it must have been something that I did though. I discovered it just a few days ago.

When I open a video, it shows the first frame in the preview window as normal, but it's not quite black, more of a light black, and when I ran the preview, the entire movie was like that. I ignored it, and encoded a random clip. To my surprise, it was brighter! Like 150% brighter or something.

I have 4 versions of TMPGE on my computer, and all of them have this problem now, and I have no idea how to fix it. I suspect registry settings, but I haven't found anything.

Can anyone help me?

[DaBigPimp]

Well i have never had this kind of problem with tmpenc and i think this is some kinda of a joke but in all cases just delete every tmpenc from you hard drive and get a new copy

[ShocWave]

This isn't a joke, if you want, i can get screenshots.
I tried deleting TMPGE, but it's still like that when I reextract it.

Btw, if anyone can help me find a program that changes the ratio (like 1:1 to 4:3 or something...) of a mpeg2 with minimum quailty loss, that'll be nice....

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: ShocWave on 2001-11-11 02:03:10 ]</font>

[Freshman]

What kind of video are you trying to encode? If it's DIVX files it could be that you have changed the playback settings of the DIVX codec, so that's what I would check first.

Of course, TMPGEnc does have colour correction settings in its advanced features and perhaps you've changed those in your VCD-Template, so this is something to check as well.

[ShocWave]

I think it affects some mpeg2's and divx's. It's really strange.

I cannot use color correction, because the details have been lost in the brightness (it got so bright, that when i bring down the brightness/contrast/gamma, the details are gone).

Here are some screenshots:
http://www.thethreshold.net/~yingyang/1.jpg
http://www.thethreshold.net/~yingyang/2.jpg
http://www.thethreshold.net/~yingyang/3.jpg


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: ShocWave on 2001-11-12 01:47:01 ]</font>

[lirasl]

I have experienced the same problem. I play VHS/Betamax videos through my DV camera and capture using Adobe Premiere. The AVI file (DV-codec) looks pretty much identical to the original source. When I encode with Tsunami (no filters and whatever the parameters are) the results are always brighter. It is similar as when a film is overshoot.

Is this a result of diferent codec parameters? What TMPGEnc parameters could be tweaked to make equalize bright levels? (MPEG quantization matrix, YUV output, register entries?)

Anyone can help?