Can Vegas emulate Avid's "Color Matching?"

vitalforces wrote on 10/27/2003, 3:55 PM
Avid's web site has a MOV file which demonstrates a nifty color correction function involving an eyedropper which samples a color "swatch" and calculates (through some sort of white-balancing algorithm, I assume) the necessary shift in colors to make another clip match it. Wonder if this one-mouse-click method is somehow doable with Vegas' split screen? I think the secondary color correction plugin's eyedropper can take a "color swatch" with its mask function but don't think it can be applied in this manner. If not, I want to recommend something like this to Vegas' suggestions forum.

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BrianStanding wrote on 10/27/2003, 5:03 PM
Not in one mouse click. But you CAN do pretty good color matching using Vegas' Color Correction, Color Curves and Split Screen tools.

Check out Sony's New Features description for an overview:
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/products/Vegas4NewFeatures.pdf

Or, for more detail, look at Billy Boy's tutorial:
http://www.wideopenwest.com/~wvg/tutorial-menu.htm
BillyBoy wrote on 10/27/2003, 6:18 PM
Maybe in version 5. What's missing yet is a easy means to sample one source and have it transported to another. Would be nice to at least have a read out like in Photoshop when the RGB values change in real time in the info window as you move the cursor around. You can cheat and bring up one of Vegas's other eye droppers and at least see what the RGB values are in two different clips. With a little practice you can get pretty darn close matching.
vitalforces wrote on 10/27/2003, 9:16 PM
Excellent suggestion as usual, BillyBoy. Thanks to BStanding too.