Bob Peterson
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I don’t remember all of your questions, but let me give it a try. First, you have to use the tools and observe what they do to decide what to use when and where. My guess is that, if brightness is way off (for me, one camera seems to always be too dark), it is reasonable to use brightness/contrast as a gross adjustment. If you do use it, keep in mind that you will probably want to use BOTH brightness and contrast to preserve a good image. Also, brightness levels will change color saturation, so you have to be aware of that effect. Second, the Color Correcter can deal with white balance problems if you have white, neutral gray (or best guess), and black in the video image. Sample the color with the complementary color adjustment. I have seen the Color Correcter dramatically alter an image, but its effects are usually fairly subtle. The Color Correcter II is very good at adjusting things like saturation. Fine adjustments are made with the Color Curves. You can select which of the three primaries you want to adjust, and, by picking the right point on the curve, you can be very accurate with the adjustment. You can also limit the range of the adjustment by adding points to the curve and adjusting accordingly. You MUST know how the three primary colors mix to form other colors so that you can adjust the correct primary colors. It is also very useful to know where a color you wish to adjust falls on the color curve. I learn this by snapshotting the image and bringing it into Photoshop. The color curve in Photoshop (I use CS6) will show you where a color occurs on the curve. Also, remember that color curves can boost or cut luminance, or they can maintain neutrality by increasing one color while reducing another. This is another area where you must think in terms of how the primary colors produce all of the other colors.
I suspect color correction and color grading are basically the same thing. It is simply a matter of what words are used to describe the process. If the two concepts are different, I would love to see someone explain the differences.
I hope that helps a bit.
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I vaguely recall something like this from my advanced audio class. What we worked with were created in the recording studio, and they included only a single type of instrument or, for dialogue, a single voice in each stem. Thus, the violin stem had only the violins. There was no trumpet sound on that stem. Thus, the volume and mix of instruments could be completely controlled and adjusted. However, there is no ability in Vegas, or anywhere else that I know of, to isolate the sound of one instrument from source audio that contains a mix of instruments. That is why they must be created in a recording studio.
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SVP has very good color correction tools built in including the color correctors and color curves. I’m guessing there are tutorials around which can show you how to use them. You will need a calibrator to insure that your monitor is accurately displaying colors, but you should have that no matter what if you are doing color correction. I have the Spyder 4 Elite and I have been very satisfied with it. Also, especially when using color curves, a knowledge of color theory is extremely helpful to get the best results.
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I have seen lots of posts regarding the inability to use xvid files in SVP, and none saying that this limitation has gone away. Those comments, as I recall, were attempts to use xvid for input. Rendering xvid output? Probably not going to work very well, but I could be wrong.
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The regular RX-3 will do what you want it to do. It has a very good denoiser module. Also, I thought SVP now includes a denoiser. If so, it can also remove the hiss you are having trouble with, and it works extremely well.
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I am not sure what you mean by “stemming” the dialogue. Do you perhaps mean “streaming”?
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I sometimes have the need to remove extraneous parts of a video, and want to avoid a “jump” in the image between the end of one part I’m keeping and the start of a second part. In those cases, I fade the video down so it goes to black, leave a gap, and then fade the video back up again. I fill the gap with black generated media.
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Vegas itself can record audio. If you set up an audio track on the timeline, you will find an icon on the far left of the track controls that is “arm for record” and next to it is a “record input” control. I have not used this for a long time, but I’m pretty sure it will record whatever source is selected in Windows for recording.
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I have no problems with H4N or WAV files in v12.
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In that case, why not make the move now. Creative Cloud has a very low price right now, and you can jump right in and start learning how Premiere Pro can solve your problems.