[Zach Rayquaza]

Okay, so after I posted this things got VERY interesting.

I copied and pasted everything inside these eight “formally-laptop” .veg files into eight brand new .veg files on the computer with the exact same project properties and SOMEHOW that worked. The footage looks normal and even renders normal.

However, I just realized today that the the other 40something scenes I haven’t looked at in awhile, but which never saw the laptop, also have the same issue as the “formally-laptop” eight did! I’m guessing this is because I did copy those 42 scenes from one hard drive to a new one on the same CPU just a few weeks ago.

I just tested the same fix (that I did to the eight laptop files) on a
currently high contrast scene that was born on the previous hard drive
(on this same computer) and IT WORKS. Copying and pasting the .veg file
into a brand new one with the same properties does the trick, but I
REALLY REALLY do not want to do that with 40+ scene files (mainly
because transferring the markers and track motion will have to be done
manually). There HAS to be an easier solution to this.

WHY ON EARTH does copying a .veg file increase the contrast and lower the brightness of shots? It’s subtle, but absolutely noticeable and ruins the effort put into the shot. Shouldn’t the act of copying a Vegas file and the levels of each shot within be entirely independent??? Because now the laptop has been eliminated from the issue and the different monitors were not the issue.

The fact this is happening makes no sense to me.