color grading wheels/section locked?

wwjd wrote on 2/14/2020, 10:00 PM

finally dived into the new color wheels, and none of them move. am I missing a switch somewhere? I even added COLOR GRADING plugin to the track, and it tells me where to pull up the wheels, and nothing in the COLOR GRADING WHEELS area is clickable. Everything else in my Vegas works perfect.

this is on an HDR project - does that make a difference?

Looked for tutorials on this, and now checking Help... I'm not new to using a computer, and figured out most of the rest of vegas without any manual.

Ideas?

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fr0sty wrote on 2/14/2020, 10:44 PM

Do you have an event on the timeline clickable? The color grading panel only works at the event level, so you'll need to click on an event to highlight it, then do your grading. You can copy and paste your settings to other events, or export a LUT to be applied at the track or project level if you need.

Grazie wrote on 2/14/2020, 11:03 PM

Do you have an event on the timeline clickable?

@fr0sty - Good question.

wwjd wrote on 2/15/2020, 12:57 AM

Do you have an event on the timeline clickable? The color grading panel only works at the event level, so you'll need to click on an event to highlight it, then do your grading. You can copy and paste your settings to other events, or export a LUT to be applied at the track or project level if you need.

thats probably exactly it.hoped it was something simple i overlooked. will check in the morning. thanks!

so, one cant use it for setting at a TRACK level without exporting a lut? or master?

wwjd wrote on 2/15/2020, 10:02 AM

yep that was it. Not feeling the benefit from the wheels... I get all that stuff from regular grading tools. Does it do something new? Or just more designed like Resolve/Premiere etc?

Marco. wrote on 2/15/2020, 11:17 AM

There is no separate Y or R'G'B' control for Lift, Gamma, Gain in the regular grading tools, nor LUT export, no floatpoint-capable color curves, no such white balance tool. Workflow improved design, too, yes, as it combines the most basic color correction tool into one set.

Grazie wrote on 2/15/2020, 3:50 PM

Just seen this from ScrapYard Films - marvelous: