Overlay() function bad quality issue

[Retal]

I am encoding screen capture video. It is video recorded from PC and intended to be played back on PC. When I use Overlay() to place a watermark on my video, the colour quality becomes terrible and despite all kinds of colour conversions that I have tried it still maintains a bad colour scale.

Is there any way to circumvent this or to fix it at all?

[stickboy]

Post your script and screenshots of what your problem is.

[kingmob]

I had a likewise problem with overlaying RGB24 pictures. I converted them to YUY2 (or YV12, i don't remember) before using overlay. Then the colours stayed correct.

[Retal]

Unfortunately this does not work, this just prevents the overlay images from blending properly because their colour range is obscured as well so it looks even worse.

[Didée]

Originally posted by stickboy
Post your script and screenshots of what your problem is.

[Retal]

Hmmm, that's strange, I posted a reply saying that I found a way to fix it, and yet that reply has now gone. Well, suffice it to say, I fixed it ;)