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Night Shot issues – Need help with Black/White color feature
Hello:
I recently shot footage at a wedding. The lighting was lowered so I put on the Night Shot feature on my Sony DV mini camera. I later learned that the Night Shot feature (the green hornet tint look) could not be changed (Night Shot use was a rushed decision after learing the lighting in the place was lowered). I loaded the footage into Vegas, learned I couldn’t change Night Shot, then decided to take out all the color and go Black & White. Maybe it’s due to my lack of experience, but I could not get the Black & White color feature to work either. I ended up taking the footage to a professional who used Final Cut Pro, and was able to change the footage to Black & White. Now “that” footage is dark and I want to lighten it, but when I add the Black & White from Media FX, or Event FXs I still can’t get it to attach to the footage so I can control the brightness, etc.
Sorry to be so long, but how is that done?
Also, I ripped the “professional’s” B/W footage using DVDPro and I keep getting a “Letter Box” effect where the bottom of the top and bottom of the footage has a boarder. I have ripped the footage with the DVDPro setting at “Full” (didn’t change it), and with “Pan” (didn’t change it), but still get the bottom/top boarders. As I’m ripping and am previewing the footage, the boarders are not there. Any suggestions on that as well?
Thanks for any help in advance.
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2 Replies
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Make sure your preview window is set to show the fx that are applied (you can turn it off, have it show half and half so you can see the difference, and have it to fully show the fx that are applied).
I would open up a new project, drag the footage on the timeline and apply an effect. Now, look at your preview window and look for the button that has a circle with part of it light and part of it dark. Click on the right hand side of that and make sure you have the preview showing the fx.
As for your second question, look at how your DVD player is set up. It may be set to show letterbox.
j razz
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Thanks for your help on this. I made it through to the end, and to rendering. But now I think I’m having a problem with the length of my footage. I posted a message asking for assistance.
Thanks again.
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