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Watching the final results of your work on television and the Saturation issue
What I have noticed consistently is that when I create a project in Vegas and burn the DVD that on most televisions the finished product seems saturated. ie. A pink cockatoo seems to be overly intensely pink colored and almost like it is glowing. Red desert soil seems to be more glowing than earth tones etc.
One thing I have noticed though is when you take the same DVD and watch it on a very hi-tech television then the results are amazing. The saturation issue is not as pronounced and the footage is as crisp as national geographic.
So the specific question I have, considering that the average audience is going to be watching my DVD on an ordinary TV is this one. How do I de-saturate my clips in Vegas beforehand. What about the gain tool in FX is that the one I should choose?
Thanks very much!
Don
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3 Replies
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You can lower the saturation level by applying and tweaking the HSL adjust effect in VideoFX. Are you sure the TV you’re viewing these DVDs on is properly calibrated?
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Hi Scott:
Respectfully stated but on the zillions of televisions accross the nation most people are not going to have a tv that is calibrated or adjusted properly. But nonetheless this will be my audience and I have noticed consistently that my finished projects show plenty of saturation on almost all of the standard TVs I have seen it on. I simply want to make my footage user friendly and to shine on tv’s that are simply basic ordinary ones. Thanks for the tip on the adjustment. Very greatful for all the great feedback here.
Cheers!
Don
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Hehe, good point, Don. I’ve always been an “exact calibration doesn’t matter” guy for exactly that reason. Pre-press? Sure! Broadcast? Better get it right! Anything else? Meh. Tuning your video to look good on your monitor won’t do anything for anyone else. But Scott is right about troubleshooting your monitor: Maybe your monitor is messed up?
I think it’s pretty safe to assume it’s not however, since I’ll also assume other DVDs look fine, but yours look over-saturated. I think the easiest solution would be to toss a Broadcast Colors filter on the final output (the FX button on the Preview window). That might be all you need. Another troubleshooting idea is to toss NTSC color bars on the DVD and see how they look after a render. The red (Is it bleeding to the right dramatically?) and the gray-darkgray-reallydarkgray pluge area can tell you a lot with just a glance.
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