Color and Brightness/Darkness Problems with Vegas

jkerry wrote on 2/24/2015, 9:04 PM

We were video some footage today using the TriCaster 460. Camera was a Sony HVR-Z5U, setting were manual focus 5.6 F-stop and White Balanced in front of a green screen and using one of the sets in the live sets. In Tricaster when viewing it on the monitor screen the picture looks very good, sharp and good color balanced. Recorded in Quicktime 4.2.2 High Quality.

The problem is when I bring the footage into Sony Vegas Pro 12, the color is way off, and looks very dark.

I have uploaded a short clip to show what problem I am getting.

Not sure what the problem is with the video.

Any suggestions or assistance will be very helpful.

Jeff

Comments

NickHope wrote on 2/24/2015, 10:12 PM

Your link is broken.

jkerry wrote on 2/24/2015, 10:39 PM

Here is a good link.

Jeff

Grazie wrote on 2/24/2015, 11:20 PM

View the sample in your Scopes. What do you see? Apply the SONY Levels FX Computer RGB to Studio RGB. What are you seeing?

Grazie

PeterDuke wrote on 2/25/2015, 12:15 AM

Quicktime and 4:2:2 sounds like a recipe for problems.

Transcode to something that Vegas likes better or record with it in the first place.

john_dennis wrote on 2/25/2015, 6:31 PM

Not to pile on to what Peter said, but the TriCaster recording specs allow for MPEG-2. Seems that would be a more natural choice when editing in Vegas Pro.

Recording

"Multi-track, multi-format recording of up to 4 simultaneous channels via IsoCorder technology

Encoding format selectable from: "

"QuickTime (XDCAM HD compatible, 4:2:2 encoding, 24-bit audio),