Moth3r said:
Arnie.d said:
When I encode it for dvd with CCE SP I convert it to RGB and 0-255 colorspace. The resulting mpeg file has a greater range. The space will be black, the whites will be white and the color is a bit more distinct.

Something not quite right there. If you are capturing in YUY2, then you should not change the colourspace (unless, for example, you need to use a YV12-only filter in AviSynth). CCE will accept YUY2 input; you only need to convert to RGB if encoding with TMPGEnc.

If the luma range ends up wrong in the final encode, then you may have a wrong setting in CCE.

Somehow CCE doesn't handle my YUY2 files very well (it locks up) so I always convert to RGB. It's not that I convert to 0-255 before encoding, I just select the 0-255 setting in CCE. I don't think it even matter if I select 16-235 or 0-255 in CCE when the input is in RGB. Oh, and I also use an YV12 filter.

s7en said:
Thanks for answering the colour query. Good to know. Cheers Arnie.

Star Wars looks kind of washed out compared to Empire and Jedi.