I was just reviewing a large project prior to rendering and wondered why some of the event colors started to look washed out on my monitor. I went back and looked at the Color Corrector fX.
The first thing I found was that I had mistakenly created a bunch of unwanted keyframes because I had forgotten to turn off the sync button. (Sony please change this so the cursor always sync, but have the button instead turn on/off automatic creation of keyframes !!!)
This was not, however, the problem.
What I found instead was that the saturation sliders had all been moved down to near 0%. This was REALLY strange, because I didn't change saturation on ANY of the clips. I decided to delete all settings for one event, and re-apply the fX from scratch and see if I could create the problem.
Bingo!
As I was working on the keyframe timeline, I used the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out of the timeline, something I do almost every second on the main Vegas timeline. However, one time when I did this, the mouse was over the control area, not over the timeline. Bad move, John!
When you move the scroll wheel on the mouse while in a dialog, this moves whichever slider has focus. In the Color Corrector, the default is the Color Saturation slider.
Moral of the story: Be very careful of using the scroll wheel when in a dialog box.
This is going to be a hard habit to break, because I use the scroll wheel so often elsewhere in Vegas. I don't think there is an easy solution to suggest to Sony, because I think this is a Windows dialog box behavior, not something specifically designed by Sony.
The first thing I found was that I had mistakenly created a bunch of unwanted keyframes because I had forgotten to turn off the sync button. (Sony please change this so the cursor always sync, but have the button instead turn on/off automatic creation of keyframes !!!)
This was not, however, the problem.
What I found instead was that the saturation sliders had all been moved down to near 0%. This was REALLY strange, because I didn't change saturation on ANY of the clips. I decided to delete all settings for one event, and re-apply the fX from scratch and see if I could create the problem.
Bingo!
As I was working on the keyframe timeline, I used the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out of the timeline, something I do almost every second on the main Vegas timeline. However, one time when I did this, the mouse was over the control area, not over the timeline. Bad move, John!
When you move the scroll wheel on the mouse while in a dialog, this moves whichever slider has focus. In the Color Corrector, the default is the Color Saturation slider.
Moral of the story: Be very careful of using the scroll wheel when in a dialog box.
This is going to be a hard habit to break, because I use the scroll wheel so often elsewhere in Vegas. I don't think there is an easy solution to suggest to Sony, because I think this is a Windows dialog box behavior, not something specifically designed by Sony.