Correcting white balance

RWatts wrote on 11/16/2007, 9:27 AM

I'm trying to edit a wedding tape shot indoors with incorrect white balance. The whole tape has a sepia cast which I haven't been able to adjust by fiddling with color balance or HSL adjust. Any advice ? (other than upgrading to Vegas full version)
Thanks

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routerguy99 wrote on 11/16/2007, 10:12 AM

Use Bluefx colorize or Bluefx color corrector for the white balance, that works really well.
Its part of movie studio 8, or there are some really good tutorials out there for color corrections.
you can google sony color correction

Chris

Eugenia wrote on 11/16/2007, 10:24 AM

The 3-way corrector with Vegas is more than enough to correct white balance. A basic guide here:
http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/08/12/color-correction-with-sony-vegas/

RWatts wrote on 11/16/2007, 10:43 AM

Sorry Folks, I thought my signature was added automatically, it shows I'm using VMS 6.0, so I think I'll up to version 8.0, thanks routerguy99.
It will be a while before I can afford Vegas, but thanks Eugenia.
Reg Watts

Eugenia wrote on 11/16/2007, 11:11 AM

VMS has that color corrector, you don't need the full version of Vegas.

Paul Mead wrote on 11/16/2007, 12:10 PM

Actually, only Platinum has wheel color corrector. That would definitely be the most powerful tool to use, but it isn't in the basic VMS toolbox.

In general, you can usually get pretty good results by using the color curves effect. It takes some time to get good at it, but if you read the help and experiment with it for awhile you probably will get reasonable results.

RWatts wrote on 11/17/2007, 5:07 AM

Paul:
You are absolutely right, so I am running VMS 8.0c on trial right now and the Corrector is easier than curves. It took a little experimentation, but works great.
Thanks,
Reg