Adjusting black and white point

[Shawn Bossick]

for setting your blacks as well as whites their are several different plugins within Vegas you can use
color correction takes time to learn however I would suggest you start with your levels plugin very powerful & easy to use plugin
always view your scopes when color correcting & if your color correcting within the Vegas preview window & not an external monitor set you scopes to 0-255 not 7.5 Ire as Vegas uses 0-255 as it’s native color index
but when you are done color correcting everything you will have to add the levels plugin to your video bus & chose the preset change computer RGB to studio RGB
this way your blacks & whites will look the same on DVD or windows media player as they did in Vegas
Vegas uses a color index from 0-255 while TV/DVD/ windows media player etc uses only 16-235
sorry I dont have any links for you
good luck

[Michal Bronec]

Thanks.
I have two options in waveform:
– 7.5 IRE
– studio RGB (16-235)

BTW, I live in a PAL country. Should be worried about this too?

[Michal Bronec]

So I unchecked 7.5 IRE and studio RGB (16-235) and it seems that waveform in Vegas now shows the same information as RGB parade in Magic Bullet Looks. That means – when I drag the black point to the 0 IRE line (of RGB parade) in Magic Bullet Looks (with 3-way colorista) and then I look on Waveform in Vegas, the shadows are really at the same spot.

[Michal Bronec]

Should I do this “computer RGB” to “studio RGB” conversion when my videos will go on the internet (Vimeo/Youtube) or only if my videos will by played on TV?