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What’s going on?
I had some overexposed video from an unmanned camera that had the sky almost white. I created a mask around the sky and used the secondary color corrector to turn the sky blue. I was surprised how good it looked in the preview screen. I could clearly see blue sky and white clouds. However, when I rendered (tried both two pass and single), the blue sky does not show up in DVDA, so the DVD shows pretty much the overexposed white sky. This does not make sense to me at all. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jim
Vegas Pro 10 DVDA 5 Excalibur
Dell Quad Core 2.67 GHz
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the blue sky does not show up in DVDA…
Im not understanding your workflow. Explain further. Because
you are talking about Vegas..(which version?). Then suddenly
its DVD Architect giving you a different output result.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Maker
Filmex Creative Media.
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I’ve had a problem of over saturated and over exposed video on DVD, and I think the problem is that you have to use the Computer RGB to Studio RGB option.
http://www.scenethroughglass.com
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Steve,
Sorry for the confusion. I am using Vegas Pro 10. In the Secondary Color Corrector I used the “select effect range” eyedropper tool on the white sky. Then I clicked the “show mask.” Mostly the white sky was showing in the mask. I then clicked on the “choose complimentary color” dropper and chose a nice blue. In the Vegas preview screen it looks really good–a nice blue sky with some clouds showing. I thought I had it fixed. I then rendered this to MPEG2, and brought it into DVDA. In DVDA the sky again looks white–no blue sky, and no clouds showing. Does this description help? Jim
Vegas Pro 10 DVDA 5 Excalibur
Dell Quad Core 2.67 GHz
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Thanks for the reply. I am not familiar with the “Computer RGB to Studio RGB option.” Would you be willing to walk me through it? Thanks again, Jim
Vegas Pro 10 DVDA 5 Excalibur
Dell Quad Core 2.67 GHz
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It’s one of the presets under Color Corrector. I don’t have much experience with it (though I probably will get a lot soon), but as I understand it, it (mostly) shifts your colors into a broadcast safe range.
Here’s some more information which is useful about color saturation and luminance in making video for DVD or tv.
https://www.glennchan.info/articles/vegas/color-correction/tutorial.htm
https://www.sundancemediagroup.com/articles/glennchan/levels_in_sony_vegas_part_one.htm
http://www.scenethroughglass.com
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[Jim Murphy] ” In the Vegas preview screen it looks really good–a nice blue sky with some clouds showing. I thought I had it fixed. I then rendered this to MPEG2, and brought it into DVDA. In DVDA the sky again looks white”
I would bet a lunch that you didn’t bring the new MPPEG file into DVDA. Try encoding it in the Render As menu to a new name. Just to make sure you don’t accidentally pick up an older copy.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Already did that. Some of the other corrections showed up fine. Now…about that lunch!!
Vegas Pro 10 DVDA 5 Excalibur
Dell Quad Core 2.67 GHz
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Even though you already did Steve’s suggestion, did you reload the corrected MPEG-2 file into DVDA?
If you didn’t, DVDA still uses the original (uncorrected) one.
I’m suggesting this because I’ve been caught by not doing this in the past and cursing the software when it was my fault 🙂 -
Yes, I did reload.
Vegas Pro 10 DVDA 5 Excalibur
Dell Quad Core 2.67 GHz
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