CDG color question

[Scoob7809]

Admin,

Do CDG pictures use the same colors as lyrics (can they display 4096) or are they limited to 16 colors? I have seen many CDG "professional" discs that seem to only use 16 colors for their title screens / "mid-song" screens.

Just wondering,

Mike

[PastMember]

They are limited to any 16 OF the 4096 colors. The only way that these colors can change "mid-song" is if the pallette is changed. Which is not an easy thing to do from a programming standpoint. Even then, you can't rely on the number of different decoders out there to properly display the colors you use.

It's hit-or-miss with graphics at best (unless of course you want to SAVE $5,200 and get the PRO System -- highly recommended)

[Scoob7809]

I always thought that it WAS any 16 of the 4096, but I've seen a regular picture that had colors that were replaced.

There is a program called CDG creator that allows a user to create a .bmp and save it as a cdg file. If the 4096 was an option, then the picture would have looked more realistic than the one I saw.

Thanks anyway..

Mike

[Scoob7809]

You can only use 16, but only certain 16, not out of 4096.

If you want to see what they are, open a picture in MS Paint, and save the picture as a 16 color bitmap. The color palette that appears at the bottom of the screen is the 16 that are available for a graphic.

Hope that helps other people too

Mike

P.S. If anyone has different info, and can prove me wrong, I'm all ears!

[PastMember]

Not so!

I have used a program called "iPPlus" from Ulead Systems that has taken a full color photo and rendered it down to a 16 color bitmap that maintains the integrity of the photo. Whether it uses the actual 16 displayed by Paint, I'm not sure, however it's only 16 colors and it does a terrific job at maintain the overall "full color" appearance of the photo.

This is not used with a karaoke song, it's a "goodbye and goodnight screen" (with audio) that just sits on the TV while the audio plays and has a picture of my wife with a big "Thank YOU for coming, drive safely.... yadda yadda yadda...."

[Scoob7809]

C. Staley,

Could you please attach a small pic to a reply, so I can see the quality of the pic? I'm curious to see what kind of colors you mean.

I checked Ulead, and did not see a program by that name. Maybe there's another one out there that works just as well.


Thanks in advance,

Mike

[Scoob7809]

Pretty good! I just need to find a program that will let me do that too.

Thanks C. Staley! BTW, she's a QT!

Mike

[Scoob7809]

I have tried that program, but the bitmap takes too long to display for my patience level. I know that another company makes a program that will do the bitmap, but I need to find a way of getting the "other" colors saved into a bitmap that the program will recognize ( Can't save orange, for example in MS Paint), but the colors that paint saves as 16 color are recognized by the program.

Thanks to all who have replied, BTW!

Mike

[admin]

Sorry but I have to halt this thread for several reasons. One being that it took our site off the Internet!

I am disabling images in the site. If you want to transfer them, email directly to each other. I can't have the Forum take our site down.