Encoding DV with TMPEG Plus

[gsh]

Are there particular settings that should be used to have a "transparent" encoding to mpeg2 with TMPGEncPlus?
It seems as though I lose some colour information from the original DV file - the mpeg/m2v appears to have less saturation than the original. I wouldn't go so far as to say it looks washed out, but it is a noticeable difference with the colours slightly muted. This is rather frustrating after spending quite a bit of time working on colour correction prior to encoding!
Source and output are both PAL.
Cheers.

[guns1inger]

A couple of things to consider

1. The gamma curve on your PC is different to that of your TV. The PC generally appears darker, so it is very easy to over compensate when doing colour and contrast correction, and to get washed out or lighter results than anticipated. You can really only test it be having a TV or broadcast monitor hooked up to your machine and watching the results on that. Vegas will allow you to do this via a DV camera in real time if you need to.

2. Tmpgenc works in the RGB colourspace, so you may be going through a colourspace conversion that could affect the outcome. You could try an alternate encoder like ProCoder or CCE which won't do this.

I suspect the issue is more related to point 1 than point 2 though.

[gsh]

Sorry I should have said - I set/check my colour correction etc on a 22" crt TV and am also comparing the Adobe output monitor, the corrected DV and encoded mpeg on the same screen.