Boris Red/ .mts files

[Tom Canton]

I guess I owe you an apology as well. Sorry for the misunderstanding. My company’s been excruciatingly busy lately and I’ve literally only been sleeping around two hours a night for the last I don’t know how long. So my apologies.

I’ve reinstalled Both Vegas and Boris.

Here’s what now happens:

1) I bring .mts files into the sony timeline. All is well.
2) I then bring Boris into the picture and the UI opens in Vegas.
3) Boris now plays the .mts files (maybe the codecs messed it up earlier, I don’t know. But this is the first time that Boris has accepted the files.)
4)NEW PROBLEM: The colors are seriously messed up and the contrast is out of whack when Boris is applied. Much of the picture detail is lost.

Ex: Bright areas that are white in the video go brilliant blues, yellows, reds.

Contrast seems to lower to the point where detail is seriously being affected.

Could this be a problem with the way the camera is recording the .mts files? Or a problem with the way they are being saved?

Could this be an issue with my computer?

I’ve never run into an issue like this. I’ve used Boris 4 in Vegas 8 and loved it.

[Tom Canton]

Okay, so I’ve discovered the issue in question.

In ‘Properties’, one of our assistant editors had set the pixel format to 32 bit floating point (full range).

The issue with Boris went away when it was reset to 8-bit.

Sorry for the hassle and thank you for all your help.

[John Rofrano]

[tom canton] “In ‘Properties’, one of our assistant editors had set the pixel format to 32 bit floating point (full range).”

I would have never guessed that one. 32-bit has been know to cause color problems with plug-ins that are expecting video levels.

People have a tendency to set everything to the max because “more must be better right?” but in video, “if you don’t know what something does… don’t change it!” 😉

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
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[Tom Canton]

Thanks again for your help.