Clips are being "brightened" automatically?? [SOLVED]

thewarden wrote on 11/12/2017, 8:33 AM

I've searched everywhere for a solution to this problem, but found nothing since it's somewhat difficult to explain so searching is also difficult! I'll try to explain it to the best of my ability as I'm not a pro by any means.

My problem is in the media fx. I have my preview window showing the results of the media fx for any clips with fx. Which it does fine. But it's showing all my clips with absolutely NO fx added to them as having the gamma or brightness raised considerably. It's also rendering this way which is much too bright. I've never had this problem with 14 so I'm assuming there's something I'm missing but I can't figure it out.

I may be crazy, but it seems to happen after I add color correction (or any fx for that matter), to a clip. Then it seems ALL clips are brightened. Which I absolutely do not want. With the split screen view button "unpressed" in the preview window, I see the video preview with fx added. BUT, it also shows all my "untouched" clips as brigher. Then if I press the split screen button to bypass, I see no fx on the clips with fx added, and my untouched clips the way they SHOULD look.

Anyone know what I'm missing??

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Musicvid wrote on 11/12/2017, 10:08 AM

Sounds like you've got multiple issues at work, however there may be a simple solution.

1. Have you got the color looking the way you want it in the Vegas preview pane?

2. Does the rendered video look wrong (contrasty) in your player?

If you answered Yes to both questions, put a Computer->Studio RGB filter on the effects button on top of the preview. Render with that in place.

thewarden wrote on 11/12/2017, 11:10 AM

Yeah no change. I've confirmed that if I start a new project, and add these same clips, that all is fine. Even if I add fx to one of the clips, the rest remain "untouched."

It seems something happened that raised the gamma or brightness to all the other clips when I added color correction to one clip in the project in question. But I don't know what, nor how to revert those clips back without starting my project over completely and that's NOT an option!

And there are no media or event fx added to the clips that should be original. But it seems there are if that makes sense.?

So it seems all my clips have been "touched" by some gamma correction inadvertently, with no visible means to "undo" this. Which is evident by toggling the split screen view. I know there's something I'm missing, but my head is bruised at this point.

thewarden wrote on 11/12/2017, 11:24 AM

Wow. Big duh. It was in the video track fx where I raised the gamma for the entire track rather than the clip(s) I wanted to. Problem solved. Jeeeez. Knew it had to be something simple.

Musicvid wrote on 11/12/2017, 12:41 PM

Effects can be added at four levels: Media, Event, Track, and Output. Each affects what is under it.