Problem with the Brightness after exporting to DVD.

[murraymile]

My buddy shot a concert that had lower lighting than expected. So, I look at his footage on his computer (using FCP) and it looks great. There is enough light on the FCP Canvas picture. So then he showed me the DVD on his television and it looks dark. I'm not sure why that is. His settings are all at 50% on his television (Brightness and Contrast). So, then he told me that when he brought it to his buddy's house to watch it on his television, they couldnt see anything. This is weird. if it looks great on his Mac Monitor (settings are all normal), then why does it look so dark on certain T.V's?

when messing around with his TV settings, he said that when he brings up the brightness just a little, it changes a great deal.

[J.R. Hudson]

Is the computer monitor calibrated to NTSC standards ?

Use your Vectorscope and IRE

[murraymile]

the montior is calbrated to NSTC with the gamma set at BoardCast and PC fuctions. What should I be looking for when using the waveform and IRE? there has to be another way to figure out this problem.

[VaricamLife]

The FCP canvas is a low quality proxy image. Its great for cutting but terrible for color correction quality control. If you feed your FCP output to a broadcast monitor (which is calibrated), then color correct, then author a DVD and do a playback check of it on that same calibrated broadcast monitor, then you know you have a clean DVD. If it then goes out to TV sets and doesn't look great, well those people need to adjust their TVs or buy new TVs. But you definitely need to be doing the QC using a broadcast monitor, not FCP and TV sets. It might be worth the expense to take the project to a proper online facility if having such a setup at your location is not fesable. Good luck.

Cheers.