problem with sony vegas pro 15 with the colours of my video

[George Dean]

Hi Lisa,

Can you upload a small clip sample of your source media for others to try?

Best Regards……George

[Lisa Van gemert]

Ah yes of course!

13172_clipproblem.mp4.zip

[Francois Pénzes]

Hi Lisa

The uploaded file has a variable bit rate. Most NLE don’t like that type of files. How did you record this file or where did it come from. Is there any way of acquiring the file at a constant bit rate ?

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 16, User since Vegas 3.0

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

[Lisa Van gemert]

I downloaded it from the site of the company – Roosterteeth – using Chrome’s Video Download Helper.

I could try downloading it again but as another type of file, will try if that helps

[Francois Pénzes]

Hi Lisa

When you get the file, run it thru Handbrake so that you have a constant bit rate file and let us know how it goes.

https://handbrake.fr/

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 16, User since Vegas 3.0

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

[George Dean]

Hi Francois, are you having a bad day? The file sample she uploaded is variabe bit rate, but noting wrong with that. I think you meant variable frame rate. Her sample is constant frame rate, so no problem with that.

Lisa, I have no problem with your sample file, same colors in Vegas Pro 15 as in VLC viewer. I think your source media is solid, so we need to consider something else.

Are you matching media in your Project? Have you ever done a full reset of Vegas? If not you may want to try this. Hold down the ‘Ctrl+Shift’ keys and double left click the the Vegas Pro desktop shortcut. When the window pops-up, check the box ‘Delete all cached application data’, then left click on ‘Yes’. This will reset Vegas Pro 13 to it’s original installation settings and delete all the pesky cached application data that builds up and sometimes causes Vegas to do strange things.

Can you post a screenshot of your Project settings?

If you go into Preferences, then the Video tab, then check what is in the GPU acceleration of video processing:? What ever it is set (write it down), then change it to the other option. Close Vegas, start it and load the problem source media. If there is no improvement, change it back to where it was. If there is more than two options (one of them being OFF), then like before try it and see what happens.

Best Regards……George

[George Dean]

Also Lisa, are you on the latest build of Vegas Pro 15, which is build 416. Go Help > About and the build number is listed there.

Often when we have a problem with color or quality bring different than the source it is our GPU, that Is why I asked if you would change it to ‘OFF’ or any other setting. A problem with the GPU, that has in the past worked fine is often caused by the driver being updated and for whatever reason Vegas doesn’t like it. If your Windows OS updated the GPU driver behind your back, you may need to roll back to an earlier driver version to see if that makes any change.

I’ll wait to see if any of the suggest make a difference before exploring further.

Best Regards……George

[Francois Pénzes]

Hi George

Mea Culpa. You’re right. May have had to much of the hot coco…

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 16, User since Vegas 3.0

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

[Lisa Van gemert]

Hey George!

I had my GPU on the setting ‘OFF’ and changing it ‘Intel’ unfortunately doesn’t solve the problem.

I am not on the latest buildnumber, I have 117, thank you for your help!

[George Dean]

Hi Lisa,

How about these other suggestions, have they made any difference?

Are you matching media in your Project? Have you ever done a full reset of Vegas? If not you may want to try this. Hold down the ‘Ctrl+Shift’ keys and double left click the the Vegas Pro desktop shortcut. When the window pops-up, check the box ‘Delete all cached application data’, then left click on ‘Yes’. This will reset Vegas Pro 13 to it’s original installation settings and delete all the pesky cached application data that builds up and sometimes causes Vegas to do strange things.

Remember even when you update to the latest build, installing this will not take care of a full reset, so I would try the full reset.

Can you post a screenshot of your Project settings?

If none of this helps, you may want to consider rolling back your GPU driver to a previous version, or if there is an update available, install it, or both of these.

Best Regards……George