[Laird Pettit]

If the Video Preview window seems, to so many users, some professional, to be too bright (and not matching the brightness of the original clip, the timeline icons, nor media window icons, AND this extra brightness can be corrected just by going to full screen, IS THERE NOT A FLAW IN VEGAS THAT ISN’T BEING ADDRESSED?

To test this method, you need to be using two monitors, with the Video preview on one of them. Then, in the Video Preview window, click on the blue monitor symbol (which displays the Video Preview full screen on the same monitor. i.e. NO change in settings, codecs, recording format, just going full-screen in Vegas.

If I am wrong, then can someone explain the reason, so we can all understand how to deal with this seemingly wide-spread problem?

Thanks.

Laird Pettit

[Laird Pettit]

I too have the problem of dark renders, created correcting for what I believe is extra brightness in the Video Preview window. Various forums have solutions that didn’t work for me, ..but I found a work around by accident. ..which I think may show a flaw or vagary with some systems, in Sony Vegas Platinum. ..mine is ver. 11.

In short, brightness and color match closely in all these: Orig clip, icon shown in Media area, and icon on timeline. The Video Preview window is noticably brighter. My two monitors match when moving a clip between the two. I happened to discover that, if, in the Video Preview window, I click on the External monitor icon (blue, upper left corner, the video jumps (still on the second monitor) to full screen, and changes to proper brightness.

In other words,choosing a slightly different means for displaying the Preview, changed the brightness setting substantially. …seems to me a Sony Vegas problem many are having, that none of us understand.

…any words of wisdom? Thanks.