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milky white when played out of vegas
I have a Sony HC7 camcorder and Vegas 8. I recorded outside today and it looked fine on the camcorder. When I captured the video, the capture window in Vegas looked like it had a milky white film over the video. Then when I edit the video in Vegas, it looks fine. I rendered the finished video out to .mt2 file and played it back in several different media players. But all of the media players have the same milky white washed out video.
Can someone tell me what might be wrong? It must be in the players. I had to rename the file to .mpg to get them to play in Windows media player or quicktime or VLC. I dont know what else to do to get my video to look correct once it has been rendered. But when I play the video from the timeline in Vegas, it looks fine.
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I checked into this further and it appears that the video played back in a media player is way over exposed. Whereas in Vegas, its the right light level. I tried putting in an auto-levels Track FX and it fixed the over exposure problem, but the video looked very poor with many edges and lines.
So something is still very wrong. I just am not sure where to begin to figure this problem out.
Bryan Wells
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I captured video using the Sony “Import from Handycam” software and these videos appear over exposed.
The only places the video looks correct is in the HC7 camcorder and in Vegas Video software. Everywhere else the video appears over exposed.
Bryan Wells
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To avoid driving yourself crazy, forget about what it “looks” like on any player.
Does the waveform monitor in Vegas say it’s overexposed (i.e. are the whites flatlined?
If so, use something like the Color Curves FX to lower the whites.
IMO, using anything that says “Auto” is just asking for more trouble as the software is just guessing at what it thinks the levels should be. -
I checked the waveform luminosity and everything is well below 100. So the raw footage looks fine.
I tried a bunch of other players and converted the video to several other formats with identical results. But I downloaded and installed the Neuview media player ([url]https://www.neuviewed.com[/url]) and it looks fine in that player. I also tried the VLC media player and it is washed out like the others. I tried using Sorenson to convert the video to FLV and to MOV and they all look washed out (but not in the Sorenson preview window).
My concern is that just because I can get it to play correctly with a particular media player does nothing for my ability to publish my video to the web or to share it with anyone else. I don’t have an HD DVD burner so I cannot burn an HD DVD to see how that looks.
Since the Neuview media player plays the video fine (out of the box), it makes me think it is some codec issue or some other setting on my system; but what are others supposed to do when I send them my video? I need this to play fine in other media players as well. Could there be a setting in the renderer I am using from Vegas that is set incorrectly? I don’t know where to begin to figure that out. A
ny ideas?
Thanks
Bryan Wells
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I found an option in Neuview (pro) called “Output”.
It has 3 options:
1. Dx Blit
2. Dx Overlay
3. GDI Blit (RGB)Options 1 and 2 give me the washed out look, but option 3 works perfect. Can anyone tell me what this means?
Thanks
Bryan Wells
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I recalibrated my monitor and the problem went away. I got way off track because it looked fine inside Vegas. I am not sure why it looked fine in Vegas and in the Neuview media player and not any where else; but whatever the cause, it is all working correctly now.
Thanks for your suggestion.
Bryan Wells
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