Bob Peterson
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You were being led down the primrose path with conspiracy theories. While I hesitated to jump in, the explanations being given didn’t make any sense at all. I’m glad you found a more logical explanation.
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It seems there is a step missing. You don’t mention hitting the record button a second time to stop the recording. I only get the save file box after I stop the recording. Other than that, everything works as described for me, and I do not lose the audio.
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I have been using XP Pro SP 3 for a long time, and have never had a problem with a firewire connection. I am very careful that both the camera and the firewire port are turned off before connecting or disconnecting. I was warned several months ago that firewire ports are easily blown.
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I always take the calculated size and double it. That gives me a little room if I want to zoom or pan the image.
I am, however, careful to do my resizing and cropping of photos in Photoshop. I do believe that Photoshop is considerably better at performing that task than Vegas.
BTW, I also save photos as PNGs if they are destined for Vegas. PNGs can preserve transparent areas, and they do not have the overhead that tiffs, for example, impose if you leave Vegas for another window and then reenter Vegas.
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Curves also applies to the whole frame unless you mask it. The difference is that brightness/contrast is linear as opposed to variable by tone within the shadow-highlight spectrum. I thought I acknowledged that in my response.
The problem with curves is that a reverse contrast curve (reduce highlights while brightening shadows starts introducing gray into the image rather than the original colors (i.e. more and more tones become gray as contrast as reduced by the curve). A little of that can go a long way. That is why a linear adjustment across all tones can do the heavy lifting a bit better. Yes, the highlights are blown by that, but the remaining tones in the image are retained. Adding a curve to the result allows the fine tuning of specific tones such as the highlights. At the very least, the blown highlights can be pulled down to gray.
It’s not an either-or. The tools can be used together. That’s why I added the brightness/contrast adjustment to the discussion. The OP did, of course, ask about brightness and gain. That presumably means a linear control.
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Curves, as noted, are one tool. You may want to add the Brightness/Contrast adjustment to the mix. Increasing brightness provides a uniform increase across all color tones. It will further blow out your background, but that’s probably largely gone anyway.
When I use the brightness control, I also adjust contrast for the best image.
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You should also turn off interlace. However, even the best video cameras do not have the resolution of still cameras. Captured images are limited in the ability to crop and resize if you want to avoid pixelation.
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Ahhhhhhh! “Maybe it works that way in Movie Studio”.
That explains quite a bit. Some folks really do set their cameras on the green “auto” option. Others want a lot more capability under their control, but that creates the obligation to understand what is really happening and why it is happening. Also, to understand what the options are, and how to properly exercise them. Thanks for laying that out.
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I’m not sure what tools are available in Platinum 9. I have Pro 9. However, I suspect that Vegas is not well suited to color correct this photo.
It looks to me like most of the colors in the photo, the deck and vegetation for example, are reasonably correct. The problem looks like a loss of flesh tone caused by overexposure. If that is correct, then any correction will be limited to just a few areas of the photo. That means the use of masks plus various color correction tools. That starts getting to be a very complicated undertaking.
I suggest doing the correction in a photo program such as Photoshop where masks and adjustment layers would be easier to apply. One note however. Some of the skin looks pure white to me. Those areas will need more than adjustment layers to fix.
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It sounds like your question should be directed to Allok software. It seems everything is OK until that software processes the file.