convert Digital Roc readout to vegas preset

bunyabunya wrote on 3/14/2004, 12:41 PM

Is it possible to do get Vegas to automatically make presets in color curves from a captured frame from vegas that has been color corrected in Digital Roc, and reinserted in Vegas?

The digital roc software is terrific at coming up with great color corrections, very quickly, on these bad old Kodachromes I transferred in Workprinter, made with out of date film, and loads of other problems.

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johnmeyer wrote on 3/14/2004, 12:44 PM

Boy, that would be cool if you could figure this out. I assume that each program uses a different color space, so mapping these would be the real trick.

bunyabunya wrote on 3/14/2004, 1:16 PM

Kind of new at this, but by "mapping" you mean converting the vegas scopes readout on the corrected frame, like RGB parade, into a setting that can be keyframed?

farss wrote on 3/14/2004, 2:46 PM

This could be mighty tricky I think. Not only would the color space be an issue but the way in which CCs work is most likely different. I'm certain some form of script could read the values for the CC against TC into Vegas, you'd also need a way to get the values per TC out of the other app but then you'd need to maybe map the values. Can't you just render out of the other app? Or maybe feed from Vegas into it by frame serving?

bunyabunya wrote on 3/14/2004, 3:23 PM

Digital roc is not a video editing program, it's a plug-in for Adobe Elements.

Part of the problem arises because when I transferred the films I was continually adjusting the exposure as the scenes changed, but was not set up to stop the projector, so the first bit is over- or underexposed. Going to do them all over, with Workprinter, and stop the projector each time, leave the lamp on, and adjust the exposure using 95 ire zebras, that should make each preset work for a longer time.