• VEGAS Pro

  Age old dilemma: MP4 output looks over-saturated

  Posted by Jim Houseworth on March 24, 2013 at 5:03 pm

  I’ve looked over roughly thirty forum posts and have yet to find a solution to this. Whenever I render an AVI from vegas, colors appear true to the source (Camtasia screen captured Zsnes gameplay), but whenever I render an MP4 (either SonyAVC or MainConcept), colors look over-saturated. Any help would be awesome.

  Note: I’m using VLC to view both videos, and even without capturing a screen shot I can visually notice the over-saturation with the mp4 output. Had to specify this as usually this problem has been linked to using Windows Media Player or importing snapshots into Photoshop with the wrong color profile.

  Reference:
  Original
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xSDE0qNsFw

  Over-saturated Mp4
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktYAgPz8Cq4

  Lewis Costin replied 13 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Lewis Costin

  March 26, 2013 at 6:02 am

  My first guess is that the mp4 export is clipping the color range to 16-235, whereas your original clip would be RGB 0-255.

  I had a problem like this recently where my video was getting clipped and all the whites looked blown out. The only solution I was recommended to use was to put a Levels effect on the output before a render and bring the colour range to within 16-235 YUV.

  I’m not sure if there is a way to get an illegal H264 video out of Vegas.

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