[Harrell Williams]

By the way…
I see you are a fellow musician. I’m down in Austin, the land of Stevie Ray!!! Live Music Capital of… etc.

See you’ve been around, involved. Are you on MySpace? Check me out at: http://www.myspace.com/theagez. My son is the most active in the family these days. His band is at: http://www.myspace.com/dremnttheend.com.

Take care; keep rocking!!!

[Harrell Williams]

Thanks for the info.

What are your thoughts on my other question:

“When I select on the “Right or Left Half” preview selection (which are the only 2 that previews my effect selections) only 1/2 of the preview screen show the color changing. What does that mean? Is it just showing me a sample of what the outcome will be once I save, then render the footage?”

[Harrell Williams]

Okay…
Followed your advise and have learned a few things. I have a few question I hope you could help me with.

The Night Shot footage made the light colored objects light green. I have been playing with the Track FX in Vegas and see that I can change the color and view that change in preview.

Questions:
In preview, the pulldown options are: FX Bypass (which I can’t deselect unless I change it in preference), Clip Board, Select Left Half, Right Half, and Select All (which, when selected, nothing changes.

When I select on the “Right or Left Half” preview selection (which are the only 2 that previews my effect selections) only 1/2 of the preview screen show the color changing. What does that mean? Is it just showing me a sample of what the outcome will be once I save, then render the footage?

Also, seems every Track FX I choose, when preview displays my experiments on the 1/2 of the preview screen, it seems the FX is only masking the footage. Meaning, any thing I try doesn’t change the light objects (only) back to their original colors (the light objects – individually – won’t change to any color). Instead, my selected color is masked over the whole frame/footage. Will I have to do bit mapping in order to change the color of individual objects.

If that’s the case, I can go with a light tan look for the overall footage in order to replace the (green) tinted objects.

Please respond. Thanks.

[Harrell Williams]

Regarding what you stated, yes, I’ve done some color correcting in the past, but with the Night Shot any effect I choice didn’t change the footage.

Can you send me one step by step example instructing me how to add color to black and white footage or how to change color to black and white? I have a Vegas manual but it’s very detailed and not a step by step procedural maunal.

Once I saw the footage was tinted green, and I was unable to alter that with color correct features, I googled the Night Shot issue and read somewhere that I’d be stuck with it. But if you know different, help me out on that.

Thank you for your response.