CCE color loss

[PHiSQuaRE]

I'm quite new to this whole encoding business, but I've noticed that my encodes have been lacking a significant amount of color. I've followed both the Roba method and the Robshot method and have changed the luminance from 16-235 to 0-255 to experiement but I still notice that there is a significant amount of color loss in my final encode. My latest encode I ran 3 passes and had an ABR of 3351 (not sure if that matters). Any ideas as to why my encodes are lacking color? Also, some scenes appear to be darker than the original picture as well, I assume this has to do with my loss in color.

[Tackemon]

I'm also new to the encoding thing, and I noticed the same thing with CCE. Flesh tones seem to be slightly "washed out" compared to my original captures, for example. (I'm transferring some laserdiscs and VHS tapes to DVD)

I posted a similiar question on here a couple of weeks ago, but the only suggestion I got was to experiment with the quanitization matrix. Uh yeah, great suggestion for a newbie. :)

I've been using TMPGEnc instead. The colors always are spot-on and I found the program easier to use, especially with the Plus version that includes an online manual. So far I've encoded three Star Wars movies with TMPGEnc and they came out great using 2-pass VBR and "inverse telecine."

Sorry, I didn't really answer your question, but switching to a different encoder is what ultimately solved the problem for me.

[spiderman2k1]

CCE 2.50 has color loss try CCE 2.64 much better also if yourdoing capture you might want to give DVD2ONE a try just make a DVD on the hard drive and use DVD2ONE to it fit on DVD-R I capture at 8000 CBR and use DVD2ONe come's out great. I find TMPG to have better color but blocky. Again CCe 2.64 I real like it CCE 2.50 is a tad washed out