Easy Preview Script?

musicvid10 wrote on 12/5/2012, 10:16 AM
This question is a spillover from three active discussions on the Vegas Pro Forum.

Currently, we have two options for previewing in 16-235 space (0-255 RGB is the default).

1. Use the secondary monitor, with its Preferences set to "Use color Management." In this mode, the system cRGB ICC profile is applied to the secondary monitor, emulating (not perfectly) Studio RGB levels handling, 16-235 RGB. In this mode, no changes are made to video bus levels.

2. Use the primary monitor, adding a Studio->Computer RGB filter to the output. This again emulates player levels, but with the burden that the levels are applied to the video bus, not just the Primary Preview.

Question: Is it possible with Vegas' scripting capabilities (about which I know little), to make #2 behave like #1. IOW, apply a 16-235 levels or sRGB profile to the Primary Preview, without affecting the video bus pipeline levels?

I'm thinking this may be way too much to ask, but if I don't ask the question, I'll never know. Thanks in advance.

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 12/5/2012, 8:04 PM
> "Question: Is it possible with Vegas' scripting capabilities (about which I know little), to make #2 behave like #1. IOW, apply a 16-235 levels or sRGB profile to the Primary Preview, without affecting the video bus pipeline levels?"

For the most part, the Script API just automates things that you can already do in Vegas. Since you can't apply Levels to the Preview without physically adding the Levels FX to the video bus in Vegas, you can't do it with scripting either.

You can make a script to add them and remove them from the video bus at the push of a button, but it still has to affect the video bus.

~jr
musicvid10 wrote on 12/5/2012, 8:38 PM
That's what I suspected. I suppose the same applies to adding an ICC profile -- if we can't do it already, we can't script it.

Thanks JR!