Mike Kujbida
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COW Coins
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First of all, I never use any “auto” feature of any kind, simply because it makes it’s own decisions as opposed to what I might want to see.
When I applied the Auto Levels filter to an image and then brought it into Vegas, the whites were raised and subsequently clipped shikle the blacks were lowerered and also clipped.
Video is a very different workspace.
Still images have the full luminance range of 0-255 while Vegas deals with a luminance range of 16-235.I rarely use Photoshop for anything other than scratch and dust removal.
Everything else is done in Vegas in conjunction with a good monitor and the Waveform/Vector monitor.The first thing I do with all stills is to apply the Secondary Color Corrector FX and choose the Computer RGB to Studio RGB preset.
This corrects the luminance range from 0-255 down to 16-235.
The image appears to be a bit more washed out on a computer monitor but it’s fine on a properly calibrated video monitor.
If any tweaking is needed, then I use the Color Curves and/or the Levels filter to et things where I want them.VASST has an excellent DVD titled Color Correction in Sony Vegas that I recommend to anyone who’s serious about taking this process to the next level.
For $59, it’s an excellent way to learn the tricks of doing this effectively. -
I’m sure there are other methods but here’s the way I would do it.
Have your audio editor mute the video track so that it doesn’t bother him/her but is still there as a reference.
Do the necessary work, save it as something like MyProject-AudioOnly.veg and hand it off to the video editor.
This way, all envelopes and nodes are there if any minor changes are needed. -
When you do a copy/paste of text media, you get two options:
#1. Create a new copy of the source media;
#2. Create a reference to the original media.My guess is that you’ve been choosing option #2 when you should be choosing option #1.
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“If it works good and I can figure it out ha ha, I’ll purchase it.”
Allen, Vegas guru Jeffrey Fisher reviewed Neat Video in an article on another site and had this to say about it:
Many scenes were a little noisy for my tastes, so I decided to try the demo of Neat Video. I bought it five minutes later!
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Allen, if it’s video noise you’re worried about, take a look at the package from Neat Video.
I’ve read numerous posts praising it’s abilities to clean up bad video. -
Josh, check out the 24p and 60i in same doc thread on the Sony Vegas forum as it seems to answer most of your questions.
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My guess is that these files come from a digital still camera, right?
If so, have you checked the manufacturer’s web site for a codec that may help you? -
Sorry but no.
Vegas can only import images or animation files such as AVI, Quicktime, etc. -
Even though you’ve unchecked it, odds are that “2D Shadow” is still highlighted.
Click on “Position” (above “2D Shadow”) and things should behave like normal again. -
Vol. #2, Issue #8 of Edward Troxel’s newsletters (PDF format).
“Beginner’s Corner – Using Keyframes ” is the section you want.
Grab the rest of them while you’re there as they’re a valuable (and free) resource.