Re: [CinCVS] YUV4MPEG stream too dark

2007-12-29 Thread Craig Lawson
This is a rather esoteric issue, and it caused me grief for a long time. Here's a UI proposal: offer an option to apply ITU-R BT.601 color space conversion in the render dialog, with a tool tip suggesting you probably want it for MPEG. The option would give a hint to the clueless, and experts can

Re: [CinCVS] YUV4MPEG stream too dark

2007-12-29 Thread Bas Alphenaar
Yes, that would be a very good idea, because this problem made me quite desperate. I searched the mailing lists but couldn't find anything. Now I see that the manual does mention something about the RGB - 601 filter, but when I searched the manual I searched for brightness and not contrast, so

Re: [CinCVS] YUV4MPEG stream too dark

2007-12-29 Thread Craig Lawson
Herman Robak wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:09:45 +0100, Craig Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a rather esoteric issue, and it caused me grief for a long time. Here's a UI proposal: offer an option to apply ITU-R BT.601 color space conversion in the render dialog, with a tool tip

[CinCVS] YUV4MPEG stream too dark

2007-12-28 Thread Bas Alphenaar
Hello Cinelerra people, Today I tried to render out a movie I made with Cinelerra revision 1045 via a YUV4MPEG stream. However, the resulting video seems to be too dark compared to the video in the compositor. I turned on Use Pipe and used mencoder with the following commands: mencoder -

Re: [CinCVS] YUV4MPEG stream too dark

2007-12-28 Thread Craig Lawson
Bas, Try adding the RGB - 601 filter to your video track(s). Configure the filter for RGB - 601 compression (the default). Does that make it work? Craig. Bas Alphenaar wrote: Hello Cinelerra people, Today I tried to render out a movie I made with Cinelerra revision 1045 via a YUV4MPEG

Re: [CinCVS] YUV4MPEG stream too dark

2007-12-28 Thread Bas Alphenaar
Thank you, it worked! Craig Lawson wrote: Bas, Try adding the RGB - 601 filter to your video track(s). Configure the filter for RGB - 601 compression (the default). Does that make it work? Craig. Bas Alphenaar wrote: Hello Cinelerra people, Today I tried to render out a movie I made with