any authoring program that can remove color?

[maca]

I sometimes get black and white movies that have color noise in them, and it's a pain to have to turn down the color on my tv every time I watch them. Is completely re-encoding the file the only way to remove color from an mpg, or does anyone know of a dvd authoring program that's capable of simply turning off the chroma during authoring?

[manono]

Hi-

Is completely re-encoding the file the only way to remove color

Yes. Authoring programs author. They don't do anything to the video. They're not supposed to, anyway. I know of no greyscale setting in any authoring program. Short of turning off the saturation in your TV set, a reencode is the only way to fix it.

To do it in AviSynth when reencoding:

Greyscale()

or:

Tweak(Sat=0,Coring=False)

[maca]

Thanks, I figured this was the answer, as I've used lots of authoring programs and none of them do that. I just took a shot that there might be something out there I don't know about which could do it without the quality loss of a full re-encoding.

[guns1inger]

Better off just killing the colour levels on your TV for the duration than risk re-encoding.