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  • Black is rendered strangely

    Posted by Alberto Del villano on October 22, 2018 at 9:28 am

    I’m using Vegas Pro 14, and as soon as I render a pretty dark video, the black color is somewhat negative.

    This is how the first frame of the video looks in Vegas.

    This instead is the first rendered frame in VLC. The black tree became almost gray.

    Francois Pénzes replied 7 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Francois Pénzes

    October 22, 2018 at 11:09 pm

    Hi Alberto

    Can you post MediaInfo on your original file and also your render settings.

    If you don’t have Mediainfo, here’s the download link.

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/mediainfo/

    It would help someone here to help you out.

    Cheers !

    PC Win 10 Pro 64-bit 16gb Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz
    Cameras: Canon XF305 + Canon XH-A1
    Blackmagic HyperDeck Studio Mini
    Vegas Pro 14, User since Vegas 3.0

    \’\’When the cutting stops, the editing begins…\’\’

  • Graham Bernard

    October 23, 2018 at 6:34 am

    [Francois Pénzes] “It would help someone here to help you out.”

    Agreed…..

    * Grazie

    Video Content Creator and Potter
    PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
    Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

  • Alberto Del villano

    October 23, 2018 at 8:44 am

    Mediainfo:
    General
    Complete name : C:\Users\Insane\SuperBeam\VID_20181021_204057.mp4
    Format : MPEG-4
    Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
    Codec ID : mp42 (isom/mp42)
    File size : 78.8 MiB
    Duration : 27 s 243 ms
    Overall bit rate : 24.3 Mb/s
    Encoded date : UTC 2018-10-21 18:41:25
    Tagged date : UTC 2018-10-21 18:41:25
    com.android.version : 7.1.2

    Video
    ID : 1
    Format : AVC
    Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
    Format profile : Baseline@L4.1
    Format settings : 1 Ref Frames
    Format settings, CABAC : No
    Format settings, RefFrames : 1 frame
    Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=30
    Codec ID : avc1
    Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
    Duration : 27 s 228 ms
    Bit rate : 24.0 Mb/s
    Width : 1 920 pixels
    Height : 1 080 pixels
    Display aspect ratio : 16:9
    Frame rate mode : Variable
    Frame rate : 30.000 FPS
    Minimum frame rate : 29.586 FPS
    Maximum frame rate : 30.354 FPS
    Color space : YUV
    Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
    Bit depth : 8 bits
    Scan type : Progressive
    Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.386
    Stream size : 78.0 MiB (99%)
    Title : VideoHandle
    Language : English
    Encoded date : UTC 2018-10-21 18:41:25
    Tagged date : UTC 2018-10-21 18:41:25
    mdhd_Duration : 27228
    Codec configuration box : avcC

    Audio
    ID : 2
    Format : AAC LC
    Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
    Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
    Duration : 27 s 243 ms
    Bit rate mode : Constant
    Bit rate : 128 kb/s
    Channel(s) : 2 channels
    Channel layout : L R
    Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
    Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Stream size : 426 KiB (1%)
    Title : SoundHandle
    Language : English
    Encoded date : UTC 2018-10-21 18:41:25
    Tagged date : UTC 2018-10-21 18:41:25
    mdhd_Duration : 27243

  • Graham Bernard

    October 23, 2018 at 8:59 am

    That’s great! What is your next like? I can’t tell much from the sample, except from some tiny artifices in the bottom right corner. Sorry…..

    * Grazie

    Video Content Creator and Potter
    PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
    Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

  • Alberto Del villano

    October 23, 2018 at 9:06 am

    Sorry, seems like a VLC problem. Colors are right if watching the video with Win10 app.

  • Francois Pénzes

    October 23, 2018 at 8:52 pm

    Hi Alberto

    I myself never trust VLC for true colours. If it’s important having the right colors, blacks and white levels, make sure you have a proper monitor and that said monitor is properly set to reproduce them as they should. Black levels are especially prone to creating problems.

    Just in case some of you want to get technical, here is a good read.

    https://www.glennchan.info/articles/technical/setup/75IREsetup.html

    Cheers !

    PC Win 10 Pro 64-bit 16gb Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz
    Cameras: Canon XF305 + Canon XH-A1
    Blackmagic HyperDeck Studio Mini
    Vegas Pro 14, User since Vegas 3.0

    \’\’When the cutting stops, the editing begins…\’\’

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