Correcting a variation of light intensity in a sequence

GeneralX wrote on 8/23/2020, 4:54 PM

Hi ! Have filmed an indoor interview and my subject was near a window and I now I have many light fluctuations to correct. Is there a plugin in Vegas Pro that I can use to equalise to whole sequence ? I was looking in youtube and found how they do it in an other sofware but nothing for Vegas Pro. Any help or tricks will be welcome.

Thank you !

Michel

Comments

Musicvid wrote on 8/23/2020, 5:09 PM

There is no autolevel scanning in Vegas.

Establish two points in your video -- the lightest and darkest ambience. Then use keyframes to smoothly fluctuate between the two corrections you have assigned, and reverse as needed. It will be better, and not objectionable to your viewers. Keep it subtle.

fr0sty wrote on 8/23/2020, 5:13 PM

A quicker way to do this would be... cut your video into light and dark segments (split it up so each part is its own event on the timeline). Adjust each section to look how you need, then drag the in/out points of each so it overlaps and makes a fade into the clip next to it. Now your adjustments will smoothly fade from one setting to the next, and you can easily adjust how long the fade needs to be or where it needs to be applied.

Edit: For this to work, your adjustments must be applied at the video event effect level, which luckily VEGAS' color grading panel is.

GeneralX wrote on 8/23/2020, 6:32 PM

There is no autolevel scanning in Vegas.

Establish two points in your video -- the lightest and darkest ambience. Then use keyframes to smoothly fluctuate between the two corrections you have assigned, and reverse as needed. It will be better, and not objectionable to your viewers. Keep it subtle.

thank you for your help !

GeneralX wrote on 8/23/2020, 6:33 PM

A quicker way to do this would be... cut your video into light and dark segments (split it up so each part is its own event on the timeline). Adjust each section to look how you need, then drag the in/out points of each so it overlaps and makes a fade into the clip next to it. Now your adjustments will smoothly fade from one setting to the next, and you can easily adjust how long the fade needs to be or where it needs to be applied.

Edit: For this to work, your adjustments must be applied at the video event effect level, which luckily VEGAS' color grading panel is.

cool, I get it, thank you fr0sty

fr0sty wrote on 8/23/2020, 7:36 PM

You can speed this process up more by copying the settings from the adjusted clips by hitting ctrl+C with the clip selected, then right clicking on new events that you need to apply the adjustment to, and selecting "paste event attributes".