I have always found that compared to say LSX or Xing encoder, the clips encoded with Panasonic encoder have overall better image quality, but look more faded/desaturated in colour. Now I try TMPGEnc, and lo and behold, the colour appears to fade slightly even more with TMPGEnc. I have tried checking and unchecking "colour correction" and "advanced colour correction", but these option seem to make little difference, if at all. It can be quite annoying when I compare these MPEG clips with the original vividly coloured AVI clips.

-- Sam Phil (samphil@hotmail.com), August 25, 2000

Answers

For Panasonic encoder use : Color Tone correction PC.

Saludos.

-- Ramon (rgual@wanadoo.es), August 26, 2000.

I always use the PC setting.

-- Sam Phil (samphil@hotmail.com), August 26, 2000.

You actually have to double-click on (Advanced) Color correction and actually set some settings for it to work.

-- FunOne (FunOne@tyler.net), August 26, 2000.

Thanks for pointing out, FunOne. But this kind of adjustment in brightness, contrast, gamma or each channel of RGB is not really what I look for, because I can make similiar changes in AVI video editor (in fact I will 'oversaturate' the colour of AVI clips before I encode them with Pansonic encoder). I thought the encoder should try BY DEFAULT to produce as close as possible the colour saturation of the original AVI.

-- Sam Phil (samphil@hotmail.com), August 27, 2000.