DVDSP2 animation/menus don't match

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jasonfjjasonfj
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
I have an animated intro to a DVD I'm building which matches through to the first menu. Except it doesn't match at all. The color shifts, as does the quality of the image.



Both parts were created from the same After Effects comp - I saved a still from the endframe of the animation - and the two appear identical when I look at them before they've been encoded. The animation is rendered at Animation Best, and the still is a TIFF file. I have the encoded settings at 2 pass VBR, 7Mbps/8Mbps max and Best motion detection, yet the animated graphics look terrible (IMHO).



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    ipodandimacipodandimac Posts: 3,273member
    a tiff file and a video file can look way different, even if you think theyre the same. just find a book that explains color depth and all that crap and you'll be on your way to figuring this out. i've never seen people have problems like this that knew what they were doing. (not to say that you arent, but i'm saying the problem isnt the software.)
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    jasonfjjasonfj Posts: 571member
    thanks for your help but I've been working with video and macs for about 12 years.



    The tiff image is identical to the quicktime movie, both are 8/24bit - if I bring the tiff and quicktime back into After Effects they match perfectly. DVDSP2 is interpreting them differently.
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    ipodandimacipodandimac Posts: 3,273member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by jasonfj

    thanks for your help but I've been working with video and macs for about 12 years.



    The tiff image is identical to the quicktime movie, both are 8/24bit - if I bring the tiff and quicktime back into After Effects they match perfectly. DVDSP2 is interpreting them differently.



    ok well i had to ask



    thats really interesting that everything looks ok...



    what i would do is render out a 30 second (or however long) video of the still image directly from AE. instead of having dvdsp convert the tiff to an mpeg-2, make AE do the rendering.



    is this a little more help?
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    jasonfjjasonfj Posts: 571member
    I tried making a motion menu with the very same clip, and still the difference. The color is darker on the menu background than the animation despite being the same footage.
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