I really need help

capitalP

capitalP

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Here I am 4 in the morning stressing. I just finished my voice over for my mini movie, everything is great, my transitions are on point music is beautiful. So I open up DVD Architect 3.0, followed the directions. Burned a DVD, viewed it and It's so Dark. I don't know what I did wrong. I'm using Vegas 6. Just a quick note, I captured the video from my dvx100a using NTSC DV 24p (720x480, 23.976 fps)
Full resolution rendering quality is set to "Good" Motion Blur type is "Gaussian"

And I'm rendering the video using NTSC DV (Inserting 2-3 pulldown) and I'm saving it as an AVI file. The confusement is, the picture quality looks perfect in the Vegas preview window, also the picture looks perfect on my secondary monitor. So why is that when I pull that same exact file in DVD Architect using NTSC(720X480) the project comes up on the viewing window extremely dark. Somewhere something went wrong. Can somebody please help me, I'm stressing.

I'm praying to god I don't have to re-edit everything all over again.

Thanks in advance
 
I don't know what could have gone wrong, but it should be working.

Try rendering a MainConcept MPEG-2 from the Vegas timeline, using the DVD Architect NTSC 24P preset. It should render a .mpg file that plays back fine on your computer, shouldn't be dark, and should be immediately importable into DVD Architect.
 
Yes, as Barry says, rendering from Vegas using the DVD Architect presets is the best way to go.

However, what is your "secondary monitor"? Have you previewed out to a well-calibrated TV while you edited/before you rendered?

Not long ago, a member had a similar problem, but it turned out his monitor was just set so that it was very bright, brighter than it should be . . . and his footage looked fine to him while he was editing, but dark to everyone else. Could that be the case here?
 
Ok guys thanks for the quick response. My secondary monitor is my television, I'm running it via firewire. while I'm editing I often view on my t.v. I will take the advice and use the vegas presets and see what happens. But shouldn't the picture on the vegas window look identical to the picture in DVD Architect if I did everything correct....?

But I guess ultimately I'm going to have to do a trial and error kind of thing, try it until it works, i just hope I don't have to recapture everything and begin from scratch. But thanks again for the quick response. I'm about to try it now and let you know how it turned out, pray for me.
 
I am just curious whether you changed any of the gamma settings on your dvx or introduced any video fx plug-ins in Vegas (HSL, etc) that could account for the dark video output after rendering? In other words, if your exposure was correct when you shot the footage and you did not inadvertantly add an effect to compensate for an incorrectly adjusted monitor (as suggested above), then you could at least eliminate those as possible causes.

EDIT: You may also want to take a look at the video on the WFM in Vegas to check your luminance levels to confirm that they are in the proper range.
 
I'm back with a smile on my face!!! I took your advice guys and rendered it using MainConcept MPEG-2 and DVD Architect NTSC 24P preset. I'm a happy guy right now, thank heavens for this site and great people like you guys. The DVD came out good. The only thing different, I had to render the audio separately for some reason, but I figured out how to do it and include it in the video. I'm happy as a catholic school girl right now.

One last question, even though I'm happy I still have one worry in back of my mind. The DVD plays fine on my computer, but will it play on a regular home DVD player? I haven't tested it out yet, I have a toshiba DVD player it's like 6 years old, I tried it in there and it didn't recognize the disc. I'm thinking maybe because it's so old, but the average DVD's that were manufactured say 3 years ago should recognize the DVD right? but that's the least of my problems... This is my first short Movie... I actually completed a movie(goosebumbs) this was months in the making... WOW! this feels good, and honestly I couldn't have done it without this site, hey everybody drinks on me..

Later.
 
capitalP said:
WOW! this feels good, and honestly I couldn't have done it without this site, hey everybody drinks on me..
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You realize that if you say that, we will come to your house . . . :beer:

Older players -- and if it's 6 years old, it's pretty much first-gen -- have more trouble reading home-burned DVDs. And no home-burned DVDs will play on 100% of players. It's just the nature of the beast.
 
LOL! I guess I took it a little too far with the drinks, well, a simple thank you to all will do then.
 
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