• VEGAS Pro

  Color shift on importing still images

  Posted by Bruce Gaber on January 21, 2011 at 1:26 pm

  I work exclusively with still images and have just begun to explore them within VP-10. And as a newbie, of course I have a problem.

  My very carefully color balanced images import into VP with a distinct greenish cast, both as thumbnails in the the media viewer and as images in the viewer and final render. Yes, I can correct this to some extent with Sony color balance, etc., but this is a very tedious and rather imperfect way to correct images that are already properly balanced.

  The images have been saved as either PSD or PNG (no difference) using the ProPhoto RGB color space (moving to a smaller space might mute the colors, but shouldn’t shift them radically). I am running VP-10 under virtualization (Parallels) on a iMac core i7 with 8Gb RAM.

  Please excuse me if this issue has already been addressed, but I did not find it in a search of previous posts.

  Your help and suggestions very much welcomed–and needed!

  Thank you

  Bruce

  Bruce Gaber replied 15 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Theo Van laar

  January 22, 2011 at 10:03 am

  Why don’t you use in photoshop the same colorspace as you are goping to use in Vegas? That should prevent colorshifting.

  Theo
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  Bruce Gaber

  January 22, 2011 at 1:29 pm

  Theo

  Thanks. I have searched the Vega manual, but can’t find any mention of ways to change the color space as in Adobe RGB, ProPhoto RGB, etc. The manual only tells how to switch fromRGB to HSL. Do you know how to set the actual space (gamut) in Vegas?

  Thanks

  Bruce
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  Theo Van laar

  January 22, 2011 at 1:57 pm

  On this website you will find some articles on how Vegas will work with color spaces:

  https://www.glennchan.info/articles/articles.html

  Theo
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  Bruce Gaber

  January 22, 2011 at 3:08 pm

  Thanks Theo. This helps a great deal.

  Best

  Bruce

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