Simple Grading in Vegas

[Angelo Mike]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILEATpIgwsI

[Graham Bernard]

Thomas, there’s a Ready-To-Go Preset I used the : Highlight Shadows. That’s the one I used.

G

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[Edward Troxel]

For this effect, I would just use the “Spotlight” tool from NewBlueFX Video Essentials III.

Edward Troxel

[Thomas Roberts]

Hi Graham,

What version of Vegas are you using?

I am on Pro 10

Thanks,

T

[Graham Bernard]

[Thomas Roberts] “What version of Vegas are you using?”

I work in VP12. But I have VP9, VP10 and VP11 installed too.

Grazie

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[Andrew Lenczycki]

I believe I created what you are trying to do by adding a track above whatever you want to “highlight” and put an Elliptical Transparent to Black event from the Media Generators tab of Vegas. I tweaked the 2 default Control Points in this to create a circle rather than the default ellipse. By moving the control points further or closer to each other, you can affect the amount of “soft focus” on the highlighting circle (see Fig1).

I then used the Event Pan & Crop for this “mask” event, to keyframe move the highlight circle “mask” across the event on the track below I want to highlight (see Fig2).

By grabbing the opacity line at the very top of the “masking” event, and dragging it down from 100% opacity (which creates a completely black mask with the highlighting circle), you can lighten the black enough (reducing it’s opacity) to get the look I believe you are after. I found that 46% opacity gave me a look I liked (see Fig3).

Here is a look at the final result.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Thomas Roberts]

Andrew and Edward I posted a SCREEN Capture initially then I posted this video!!

FCP has a “SOFTLIGHT” Masking tool…

https://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/tutorials/281-how-to-fix-underexposed-footage-in-final-cut-pro-using-composite-modes-and-blur

Sorry for the confusion

[Jerry Hart]

Graham:
You mentioned using Red Giant’s Magic Bullet LOOKs in SVP 12. I have been trying to use LOOKs in SVP 12 but it doesn’t work properly. The folks at Red Giant informed me that LOOKS works with SVP 10/11 but is not supported for v.12.

How do you get it to work? Everytime I finish with one event and open the next for color correction w/ LOOKs, the previous event’s settings are lost.

Red Giant will not say if or when an update for SVP 12 will available.

[Graham Bernard]

[Jerry Hart] “Everytime I finish with one event and open the next for color correction w/ LOOKs, the previous event’s settings are lost.”

You do need to save your settngs within MBL. I just did a re-test of this for a Hindu Procession, I used a MBL Tools Template and adjusted to something and called it “G Hindu Gold”. I applied MBLs to a NEW Event and recalled the “G Hindu Gold” and it is working. What can I say?

Grazie

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