bradk
1st March 2005, 07:02
Cinema Craft Encoder Problems
Has anyone seen this problem before:
I have a short film with a 2.35 aspect ratio. I have encoded it as a 16:9 mpeg-2 using cinema craft encoder 2.7. The resulting DVD plays with two sets of black bars, the ones recorded in the image to make it 2.35, and the ones the DVD player generates to make the 16:9 file play back properly on a 4:3 television. The issue is that the OUTER set of black bars generated by the DVD player are a much lighter gray color than the black ones from the mpeg image. This does NOT happen when I encode using any other mpeg-2 encoder besides CCE (or play back a commercial DVD). It seems like something in the CCE encode tells the player to generate a different black level in its bars. Very strange. Anyone else have success playing back a CCE 16:9 file on a 4:3 TV? Any help would be appreciated.
Brad
Has anyone seen this problem before:
I have a short film with a 2.35 aspect ratio. I have encoded it as a 16:9 mpeg-2 using cinema craft encoder 2.7. The resulting DVD plays with two sets of black bars, the ones recorded in the image to make it 2.35, and the ones the DVD player generates to make the 16:9 file play back properly on a 4:3 television. The issue is that the OUTER set of black bars generated by the DVD player are a much lighter gray color than the black ones from the mpeg image. This does NOT happen when I encode using any other mpeg-2 encoder besides CCE (or play back a commercial DVD). It seems like something in the CCE encode tells the player to generate a different black level in its bars. Very strange. Anyone else have success playing back a CCE 16:9 file on a 4:3 TV? Any help would be appreciated.
Brad