DVD Colors and contrast changes

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bwaysteve

I am in the process of submitting my film to festivals and the screener needs to be sent online or a dvd.
My color is all done by the numbers and I have several "look" affects for color.
It looks great on my Mac Retina screen and on my Vizio 1080 monitor.I realize the dvd will only be 720 and I have to compress to .264( about 3.6 G) for 25min.
I have run it on the Mac and on a bluray player with a 46in Samsung monitor.Movie setting and standard.
My contrast is down and all scenes are lighter losing all the mood I achieved in color correction and grading.
The Mac and the Vizio match closely and are new so the calibration is not far off .
Is there anything I need to set when burning the dvd or is compression the problem?Thanks
 
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Compression/encoding is actually mos likely the problem. If you're original file is colored one way, the Mpeg2 DVD render is colored another and the only step in between is compression/encoding then that's probably the faulty bit.

What software are you using to convert the edit to Mpeg2? Most DVD authoring programs won't do as well as stand-alone compression programs. Try using something else, Adobe Media Encoder, Compressor, etc...

Good luck, if you do figure it out post back here and let us know what it was, that way the next time someone runs into the same thing there's an answer!
 
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It could be the infamous gammashift that H.264 mov has (makes contrast duller, blacks lighter eand whites darker) unless you fix it.
Render to MPEG-2 (NTSC/PAL) without using H.264 as extra step.
 
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