Since I am definetly a newbie to DVD burning I figured that this was the place to start. From a technical standpoint I would put myself above average but alot of this is stuff is still FM to me. My motivation to get into this is to send DVD's to my 85 year young Mother. Heres my problem. I recently bought a Plextor PX-716UF External drive. It came with the Roxio Basic edition software. I figured out the software and made my first movie with titles, chapters, dissolves, etc. The burning process went as I expected. I took the DVD and ran it on my system. Everything looked good. I then played it on our set top player. The audio was good but the video, whether actual video or colored panels were all washed out, over-exposed, and just lacked saturation of all colors. The blue of the swimming pool was more white than blue, the green of the grass was more a grey tone than green. Keep in mind that this player plays factory movies just fine. No complaints. I tried it on our other DVD player, different brand, different set. It was washed out there also. I then took it to my neighbors DVD player and it was still washed out. I emailed Plextor Support and they led me down this path. First, I uninstalled Roxio, updated the chipset, and reinstalled Roxio. No change. I uninstalled Roxio and downloaded the Nero Trial version. No change. I ran the Plextor Self-diagnostic. It passed. I have burned both Philips +RW and Memorex -RW discs and the results are consistant. I would greatly appreciate any and all suggestions on this one. Thanks in Advance, Doug94550
@Doug..... welcome to AfterDawn........ you did explain everything ok...... but you didn't tell us what you recorded........ was it copy of a DVD or was this home movies that you transfered to DVD format and burned to DVD!? If you take a VHS tape and play it on a large screen tv you will get a very bad picture as you discribed: washed out colors and maybe graininess, too. The difference is in the pixels from old vhs tapes to DVDs! You will notice the quality of video from VHS to DVD is wayyyyy different and will be noticed when you transfer those tapes to DVD. It's like taking an anolog audio to Digital audio! you have to remaster it. there isn't anything that you or I can do to remaster video from VHS tape to DVD! I wish we had that capability but as of right now I don't think the public has this type of technology available to us. The movie industry has! They can digiatly remaster movies like Star Wars and other old movies. Whether this is your problem, I don't know. you haven't told us what your source video was. I transfered all my father's old 8MM film to VHS long ago and now I transfered that to DVD and there is a big difference. Colors are not what it used to be and, mind you, these films are old.... from the 1940s-1965 or so. but at least I can see my family from an era before I was born and after I was born, too! Priceless!
Oopps. Minor detail. My wife and I both have digital still cameras and she has a digital video camera as well. We upload to the computer and want to make a monthly DVD, having both stills and video, to send to the Grandmas. Nothing fancy. Some color panels with narration. And eventually spoken narration with background music. We had completed the first project when we ran into the washed out video problem. Thanks Doug94550
I wonder if when you uninstalled Roxio did you use Roxio Zapper..... this will take out anything that is left in your computer about Roxio: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Uninstallers/Roxio-Zap.shtml and here is Nero Cleaning tools: for Nero 6: http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/en/Clean_Tools.html for Nero 7: http://ww2.nero.com/nero7/enu/Nero7_CleanTool.html use these cleaning tools after you uninstall any of these programs.... hope you realize that Roxio and Nero have issues with eachother and make each other run buggie! use one or the other! other than that I wouldn't know what the problem may be. Try other programs if you have to and if you have the same results then you might want to check out those cameras, which I don't think is the problem.... what software did you get with the cameras, if any?
