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Background Color and Studio RGB
I’ve been reading up on and trying to understand working with color spaces in Vegas. I’m using still images, so I put the Color Corrector (secondary) preset for Computer to Studio RGB on the main video output to correct levels.
I’m just now realizing that this doesn’t affect the background of the video screen, which is still the full Computer RGB 0 black wherever the images don’t fit the entire screen (some of them are letterboxed). I’m wondering if I should add in a generated solid color background with the lighter Studio RGB black to remedy this, or whether it really matters?
Thanks in advance.
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I would just place the Broadcast Colors plug-in with the Lenient – 7.5 Setup preset at the end of the video output chain to be sure the blacks are kept legal.
~jr
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Is there an advantage to that over using the Color Corrector (or Levels) preset? I noticed that Broadcast colors does not otherwise alter the coloration of the image like levels and color corrector do, but if I use the Color Corrector preset, I’d imagine that Broadcast Colors would be unnecessary.
Neither of them seem to alter the color of the “stage,” although I think I’ve found a workaround for that by using “fade to color” on the bottom track.
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The changes that take place are very subtle and most likely you cannot see them. You should use the scope to see that.
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The Color Corrector or Levels actually modifies/scales the output across the spectrum to keep it within limits. The Broadcast Colors filter just clamps down the final output chopping off everything above and below the limits. With the former you maintain all details, with the latter you loose everything above and below the threshold.
~jr
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Got it. Thanks John.
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