Easy way to adjust colors?

SonicClang wrote on 1/1/2005, 11:21 AM

The colors in my video are kind of washed out, probably due to the fact that I'm just using a regular camcorder. I'm trying to bring a little more life into the video and I'm comparing the video to still photos I took with my digital camera (which look very very nice and lively). I can't seem to get it right by hand, although I'm new at this, and I was wondering if there's a way to have Vegas alanlyze the colors in a still photo and use a filter to acheieve a similar color scale in the video.

If not I'll just keep adjusting by hand until I get something that looks OK.

Thanks in advance.

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BillyBoy wrote on 1/1/2005, 11:33 AM

Visit www.bb-video.net

Adjusting levels, gamma, gain, adding hue and finding/setting the back and white points by adjusting the color wheels in the color corrector filter and using color curves is what you want. Also learn how to use the scopes.

SonicClang wrote on 1/1/2005, 12:26 PM

Wow, that site is amazing. Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction. I see I have a LOT to learn!

BillyBoy wrote on 1/1/2005, 1:32 PM

There are several other sites about Vegas too others have put up.
I haven't got around to linking to them on my Flash site, but you can find links to them on my older site and some other useful links. The tutorials are more expanded on the Flash site (bb-video.net) the older site too sometimes is very slow to load.

older site for links to other Vegas related sites:

http://www.wideopenwest.com/%7Ewvg/tutorial-menu.htm

SonicClang wrote on 1/1/2005, 2:27 PM

So that's your site with all the flash? I'm impressed. It is EXACTLY what I was looking for. VERY detailed and well-thought out. My videos are going to start looking amazing! :D and they're just family videos.

farss wrote on 1/1/2005, 2:42 PM

Just bear this in mind, still cameras use way higher color sampling than video and way less compression, just look at how many megabytes one still image uses. You should be able to get them to match fairly closely on a TV although if you're encoding straight from the T/L to mpeg-2 your stills will look better than anything out of the most expensive DV25 camera.
Bob.

SonicClang wrote on 1/1/2005, 4:07 PM

Yeah, I have been keeping in that in mind. Thanks for reiterating it though. My main goal is to make the stills and video closer to one another, but obviously the stills will be much clearer all around.

I really just want to give the video some pizazz. My friend came over, who happens to be a graphics designer, and he told me all the colors look washed out. So, that's what got me started on this journey.