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Render Outputs too dark….
Hi everyone,
I have a problem that everytime i do a render (either to .AVI, MPEG1 or MPEG2 using the default SONY templates) my output appears much darker than the original clip and sort of over saturated. Why is this? Is it a problem with the SONY render engine or something else is causing the problem? My source content is DV PAL. Awaiting your speedy sugestions and ideas.
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you drop DV pal clip in time line ..
you then render that out using DV PAL template and the clip is darker?
you are viewing the results using Vegas preview window or you are viewing it on a PAL monitor and then comparing to vegas preview window?
make sure ALL video track levels are at 100% …do a short test. drop PAL color bars into time line. – do some kind of FX – then NOTE on the video waveform where the bars are falling ( write 3-5 of them down ) .. now render that out using PAL DV template .. when finished drop it into time line – now look at the waveform to see where those bars are falling ? are they different ?
IMO what you see in waveform is what you get .. however sony preview monitor and external monitors are totally different. BOTH need to be set up to the same standard. one can just adjust the computer monitor anyway you want and most persons just turn the knobs till it looks right to them. same with external monitor .. set up you computer monitor to PAL color bars .. then adjust your external (TV) monitor up using the same bars = npow you have a standard reference.
note that it doesn’t matter how you set up your computer monitor it will have NO affect on the sony waveform scopes ( it reads from data – not the circuitry in adjusting monitor)
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