sony vegas 12 platinum burning bluray too dark. also volume question

[Bob Peterson]

1. Use a rewritable media. Then burn a short segment of your video and watch it on your target device. A TV is what I use. Make notes of the changes you want to make. Make the changes and try again. This approach may require many iterations which is why you need rewritable media.

2. Take as many courses in color theory as you can afford. It will probably take several to begin to understand how it works. The ones I took were part of a photography program.

3. Save your money and buy a calibrator. It will probably help enough to be worthwhile.

4. Keep using step 1. It will probably be a lot quicker because you now have a much better chance of understanding what you need to do.

5. Recognize that there is no quick, low budget, trial & error way to do this.

[John Rofrano]

I just realized that this is not entirely correct. You don’t want to use a -20dB test tone, you want to use White Noise set to -20dB. It’s too late to edit my post but this correction should be made.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

You also want the SPL meter to read 79 dB because you need to convert from VU -20dBFS to Decibels. So to recap:

• Pink Noise set to -20dB in Vegas Timeline
• Vegas VU meters reading -20dB
• SPL Meter reading 79 dB C-Weighted Slow Response

Sorry for any confusion. I was doing this from memory and my memory isn’t that great anymore. lol

~jr

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[Bryan London]

Thank you!

Another question: I used the computer rgb to studio rgb and got better results as I checked the dvd I burned on a laptop. haven’t tried on dvd players and tvs, just the tower and laptop.

I did save the pic you put up of the white, grays, black bars to see how my new monitor fared and it showed all the different hues of gray, white, black, etc.

Now, I’ve rendered and burned DVDs, is there a faster way, now that the rendering has been to done to short term satisfaction that I can burn more copies of the rendered file to dvd’s so I don’t have to keep rendering for each dvd?

will a consumer dvd copier be the way to go later for making exact copies? or will it get messed up in copying. the above question is the the main question I would appreciate getting answered asap.
thank you

[Bryan London]

to clarify, is there a fast way to make more dvds and skip the rendering step?

should I have rendered it and not used the make dvd function?
then it would make a file in a folder and I can go find it and right click burn dvd? or what would I do with the file once I found it?

would I open it in vegas? then go to the top menu and find “burn dvd?”

[John Rofrano]

[Bryan London] “should I have rendered it and not used the make dvd function? then it would make a file in a folder and I can go find it and right click burn dvd? or what would I do with the file once I found it?”

You could just create an ISO file from the DVD and then use it has your master to make as many DVD’s as you like. I use BurnAware Free to make and burn ISO’s.

~jr

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