D. Eric franks
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Nicely done, Theo, that’s a great technique. And thanks for the followup, Paul: very clear.
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I’m no Artisté (and Mr. Peterson is definitely right that blown out is blown out), but here’s what I got with a few minutes of fooling around. Probably a tad too much and we’re getting into the Realm of the Fake Tan, but at least you can see what’s going on:
Broadly, I used Secondary Color Correction (3x) to hit various skin tones (one for the blown out areas, one for “normal” skin tones and then another to pick up some missed pixels). Fortunately, the overexposed areas are all skin (except a couple of flowers) and there aren’t any fluffy clouds or anything else pure white that’ll look odd with skin tones, so this could have been worse! I did often get a bit of the wooden rail at the same time, but it looks fine with a little “skin” color correction, too.
– Pulled the gamma down
– pushed the color up a bit (maybe 10-15%) in the skin tone range (towards 11 o’clock on the color wheel, halfway between yellow and red, more or less – toggle your Vectorscope on and it’s obvious)
– pulled the gamma down on the whole image a tad (not more than 85-80%) using the regular three way color corrector.That’s all, just a technical start really. May or may not work in full motion.
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Don’t think this is quite what you are looking for (it’s not as versatile as adding custom tags), but Ctrl+Shift+I reveals the View > Active Take Name. I leave that on all of the time.
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QuickTime is a very flexible format that supports a ton of compression options, so it is definitely possible to figure out settings that will work.
Choppiness in video, however, can be caused by any number of factors, including (1) humongous file sizes overwhelming the speed of your hard disk, (2) high-resolution video overwhelming the the processing power of your video card or (3) advanced compression algorithms overwhelming the processing power of your CPU. In order to figure out the cause, we’d need to know (a) what the resolution of your video is and (b) what computer you are using to view the video when it’s choppy. For example, 1080p HD video on a blueberry iMac from 1999 is guaranteed to be a choppy slide-show presentation, if it’ll even play at all!
That said, I can give you two best-guess recommendations for video that will play on most modernish machines. Try QuickTime (*.MOV), 640×480 resolution (for SD) and use the Sorenson Video 3 format. Set the Data rate to Basic and the default 1,400 Kbps should be fine. Not gorgeous, but fine. Another, better option is to render out to MP4. I’d use the MainConcept AVC and, once again, set the data rate to ~1,500 Kbps. This is going to look better, but is also a bit more computationally intensive and may be choppy on older machines.
If the Sorenson 3 QT MOV file is also choppy because it’s an even older machine, post back here and I’ll wrack my brain and try to think of something else…
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Sure!
I have 8.0c 32-bit, 9.0b 32-bit and 9.0b 64-bit installed right now.
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I’ll try the system restore thing – I’m certain I had 7.6.4 working up until 2 days ago. Unfortunately, the “repair” of QuickTime does not show up, but I can back up a couple of days anyhow. The only installs listed are two Windows updates and I guess it could be a long shot that one of those did it (or one of those triggered the Firefox QT plugin to break which… fun). The problem only effects the 32-bit versions of Vegas, v8 and v9.
Thanks guys!
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To some extent, it depends on what you are editing. If you are editing SD DV video, this system should be OK (not great), but if you are editing anything HD, a 2.0GHz single-core processor is pretty slow. Unfortunately, there is no low-cost upgrade here, since you essentially need a new motherboard to upgrade the processor, i.e., a whole new computer.
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You can download both versions here:
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/trials/Vegaspro
and install them on the same system, no problem. The shortcut links will say “Vegas 9.0” for the 32-bit version and “Vegas 9.0 (64-bit)” for the other. I have personally experienced situations where a QT render would not work in 64-, but worked fine in the 32-bit version, just as an anecdote. Not saying one version is “better” than the other and if you aren’t experiencing problems, I wouldn’t worry about it at all, but, on the other hand, it doesn’t cost anything but disk space to have both installed and it sure is easy to troubleshoot.
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I always found 8.0 32-bit to be more stable on my Vista 64 system. In any case, it’s definitely possible to install both 32- and 64-bit versions and if the 64-bit gives you a hard time, you can open the project up in the 32-bit. (Frankly, I’m doing that right now with v9-64, which is a lot more stable, but I’ve still run into issues that were most easily solved by popping back temporarily into the 32-bitter.)
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Match your project settings to your source, exactly, and the quality will be identical to what you’ve recorded. Any change in size or frame aspect will cause blurring.
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but not necessarily in that order.”
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