Tom, thanks for the hint! Now I see what Grazie and rest of you were talking about. Makes all the difference in the world. This tool requires more study.

By-the-way, it's not Vegas to crash on my computer.

navydoc, the clip looks great!

Okay, I just put two copies of a 10 sec DV clip on the timeline, applied Sony Gaussian blur to one and used the AAC filter to put a similar Gaussian blur on the other. On my computer the Sony Gausian blur took 37 seconds to render a new DV file while the AAC Gaussian blur took 6 seconds to render a new DV file.

The blur settings in the two filters aren't the same and I didn't apply exactly the same amount of blur, but they were close. I applied a little more blur with the AAC filter.

The AAC filter uses my graphics card, which is an AGP card. Maybe it'd be faster with a PCIe card, as well as just getting a newer and faster card. Still it allowed me to do the same render in 1/6th of the time. That's pretty good!

Rob Mack

I forgot to mention that for my sample above, I did use two instances of the color corrector fx. The first was for color correction and the second was to shift to computer RGB.

I used the Sony corrector because I felt it would be easier to use 3 color wheels rather than 6 sliders.

I wish the whole movie was that easy to apply corrections. The colors change very often and even half the frame is different than the other half in some areas. I'm splitting the movie into many small clips and correcting each as well as I can.

Oh, a bit OT and I'm sure you already know this but for topics with many posts, I click on the date & time in the "Last post" column (on the right) and it takes me to the end of the thread so I don't have to scroll all the way through posts I've already read.



Doc

While I haven't run any rendering tests yet, this plugin works for my copy of Vegas Movie Studio Platinum (8.0d). I can't wait to give it a go with my upcoming projects.

Doc, thanks for the last post tip, I hadn't found that one yet.

This plugin more than rocks!!

Just did realtime Colour Correction & Glow FX on Standard Definition - playback realtime.... hopefully this is start of things to come.

Many thanks to Carl Ådahl!!!!

Hmm. I installed it in Vegas 4.0e...the blur works, but nothing else does.
Adjusting the sliders on any of the other functions has no effect at all. My video card is an old Radeon 8500 series, but I have DX 9.0c and the aav6cc plug in (as well as all other Vegas plugs) still works fine. Running XP Pro SP3.
Weird...any ideas?
Ken

I tried the "one click" white balance using this plugin on a home movie from the Korean War I'm working on restoring. It seems to work very well.

Here's a quick sample showing the original clip on the left and the corrected version on the right.

My fx chain is: colorlab white balance>Sony color corrector>Neat video noise reduction.

Doc
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Doc,

Why did you use the Sony Color Corrector in addition to the Colorlab plugin. Is it because the Color Correction portion of the AAC Colorlab plugin doesn't work as well?

My own results have been that it seems easier for me to use the Sony Color Corrector which seems at least as fast at color correcting as the AAC Colorlab plugin. I am not seeing a real benefit to this plugin. Perhaps I am not using it to it's fullest?

John

John,

As I mentioned in my second post, "I used the Sony corrector because I felt it would be easier to use 3 color wheels rather than 6 sliders." It seemed a bit confusing to me to know which combination of color sliders to use to correct a piece of the home movie. The sliders are similar to Photoshops "Image>adjustments>hue/saturation" controls but I have only used those controls to colorize an image.

By using the colorlab white balance adjustment first, it just seemed to me to make the rest of the color correction a bit easier using the Sony color wheels.

Doc

The way ColorLab works is bit different from what we might expect the Vegas tools would work - and rather similar at the same time from another point of view.

The ColorLab White Balance feature is like what we get when using the complementary color function of the three wheels of the Vegas Color Corrector. Finer adjustments possible in Vegas, quicker way in ColorLab.
Remember the three wheels of Vegas Color Corrector does not work based on three source media colors but on low, mid and high luminance levels of the source media. This enables you to have different white balances for shadows, mid-tones and highlights. This is not possible within the ColorLab White Balance function.

Now the 6 color sliders of ColorLab are not compareble to Vegas Color Corrector as the Vegas Color Corrector is based on adjusting three different luminance levels whereas the function of ColorLabs 6 sliders is based on 6 different source media colors.
If you are looking for a Vegas filter which does work similar to ColorLabs 6 color sliders you need to take Color Corrector . It's also based on the source media color but doesn't offer a slider for each color but a color picker instead to use any source media color desired.
But if you wanna correct more than one color with Vegas Color Corrector Secondary you need to open as much instances of it as you want to have colors corrected. With AAV ColorLab instead you only need to have it opened once to get six different colors corrected in one go.

This given lets us use both ColorLabs White Balance, 6-Color-Sliders, Vegas' Color Corrector and Color Corrector Secondary together if needed.

Marco

I have to chime in here. This is a very interesting plug that seems to work really well. We're quickly bringing this into production and it seems to be doing a great job.

Looking forward to seeing how it works during the upcoming wedding season. I see good things on the horizon!

Highly recommended so far! Let's hope a version 1.1 comes out and I think a donation is on it's way.

- Rick