exposure issues during and after capture

jkb242 wrote on 9/20/2005, 6:56 PM

I am a fairly new user with Vegas and my TRV830. I have started documenting a rock band and when capturing the video from Hi-8 to Vegas via DV cable, the video is considerably darker in the capture screen versus the LCD of the camera. I have noticed this happens more with digital picture effects (slow shutter, tracers, etc).
Any ideas as to what causes this? Or a fix around?

THANKS!

Comments

jrazz wrote on 9/20/2005, 7:12 PM

One thing you could try is to adjust the brightness of your LCD screen to match with your monitor's brightness... but that is purely subjective unless you have a well calibrated monitor. Also, I didn't understand the last part of your issue with the slow shutter, tracers, etc... but if you are using the presets on your camera, you might want to maintain your original footage without the extras and add the effects while editing the video instead of while filming it. Just a suggestion.

John_Cline wrote on 9/20/2005, 7:53 PM

Assuming that you are capturing via a Firewire connection, there is nothing that Vegas is doing to your video during capture. It is merely copying the data from the tape to the hard drive in your computer. The fact that the video looks dark on your computer monitor suggests that your computer monitor isn't calibrated. Simply turn up the brightness.

However, judging video quality on a computer monitor is always going to be a problem. You really need to hook up a video monitor or television to the output of your camcorder, connect the camcorder to the computer via Firewire and select "External Monitor" in the preview window of Vegas. Also, it is important that your television or video monitor is properly calibrated using color bars. You can find out how to do that at the following link:

http://www.videouniversity.com/tvbars2.htm

John

jkb242 wrote on 9/21/2005, 6:58 PM

THANKS for the uselful tips....
I think the issue lays within using the camera's effects, i will now only use straight video and ad effects with Vegas...

Thanks again