color

williamk wrote on 4/30/2005, 3:47 PM

Hello. New to Vegas and this forum. We have a Sony HDR-FX1 and Sony Vegas 5.
We have edited about 10 minutes of our film putting the events on the track. We are editing in between shooting and have some extra time and went back to the 10 minutes to do some color correction. How can you correct each events color without affecting the whole track. Even moving to a secondary track it changes the first track. Solo doesn't help.

Also how do you save a project with just the media that you have edited while deleting the unused material that you have cut from it. We want to clear up disk space to add more footage without deleting the unedited events from the media pool. If we save with media file and trim can we then delete the master from the media pool or does that delete eveything else in the media. Or do we render and once we do can we edit a rendered project.

Sorry for all the questions and thank you for your advance.
Also we will be upgrading to Vegas 6 this month (cash pending) to take advantage of our great camera.
Thanks again
Williamk

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 4/30/2005, 4:19 PM

You have three choices when applying filters like Color Corrector.

1. drop on preview window, EVERYTHING is effected.
2. drop on track, everything on track is effected.
3. Drop on events (what you split) or indvidual clips on main timeline and only the EVENT is effected.

Saving a "project" only saves a file that remembers what you done to that point. You original source file is uneffected. Do NOT delete anything until you are sure you no longer need it and only after you render a project.

Rendering a project (File, render as ) creates a new file that has all the edits, adjustments you've made. There is really no reason to render until your project is finished. If you must to save hard drive space be sure to render to a format that stands up well. Use either the MPEG or AVI DV template for example.