Imported Clips Become Black and White

Promethium wrote on 10/9/2015, 6:48 PM
Whenever I import a clip into Sony Vegas Pro 13, it appears black and white in the preview area, and in the trimmer. The source footage is mp4, and plays/appears fine in all media players.
I've checked as many settings I could think to check, and have googled it to death, but still can't seem to find a solution.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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john_dennis wrote on 10/9/2015, 7:36 PM
Where is the media from?

Can you post a few seconds on a cloud drive and share the link here?
Promethium wrote on 10/9/2015, 8:56 PM
The media is recorded by me, using OBS. There's nothing wrong with the media, as it plays fine in every media player I have. It's only once it's imported into vegas that it appears black and white.

The media is .mp4
Promethium wrote on 10/9/2015, 11:49 PM
I have now tried multiple videos, from varying sources, and no matter what they all end up black and white in the preview, and in the render, no matter what I do.
Former user wrote on 10/10/2015, 12:00 AM
If you have GPU render turned on, try turning it off. Both in the Preview mode and in rendering mode.
Promethium wrote on 10/10/2015, 12:46 AM
I turned off "GPU acceleration of video processing". Was this the option? Or is there another elsewhere I should also switch off? (Turning off this particular option did not appear to affect it).
john_dennis wrote on 10/10/2015, 2:08 AM
Just above the Preview Window, check the state of the Overlays switch. Make sure that Red, Blue, Green, or Alpha as Grayscale is not selected.

This wouldn't affect the rendered output, however. Only the Preview and the Trimmer.
andrei-s wrote on 12/23/2016, 6:31 PM

I have the exact same issue, did you ever come to a solution?

NickHope wrote on 12/23/2016, 9:26 PM

I have the exact same issue, did you ever come to a solution?

Video recorded with OBS Studio?

Please share a sample somewhere like Google Drive, Dropbox, One Drive, mega.nz etc..

andrei-s wrote on 12/24/2016, 9:24 AM

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_84ZY2L4KypOGJrZXZyRG4ySm8

Here is a short segment I recorded with all my regular OBS Studio settings, I'll be close if you need more info, thanks!

andrei-s wrote on 12/24/2016, 10:50 AM

Kiitos, (you are Finnish right?) I'll look into it!

andrei-s wrote on 12/24/2016, 11:25 AM

Thanks so much for the help but I have solved the problem. In OBS I was using "Lossless" Rate control. Instead I changed it to CQP which is working now. However that makes me wonder why Lossless doesn't give any color.

NickHope wrote on 12/25/2016, 10:06 PM

I'm not even sure "lossless" rate control is available for x264 in the current OBS Studio 17.0.0, unless perhaps it can be done by manually entering x264 options. I just tried a "Lossless Quality" render in the "Simple" output mode and it encoded my video with the UT Video Codec, which surprised me.

I'd be interested in knowing if you can recreate the problem format in OBS Studio 17.0.0. If so, please share the settings so we can report the problem to Magix.

Peavii wrote on 5/17/2017, 11:46 AM

Check my new comment. This was slightly incorrect...

CRF 0 Is what typically causes the video to be B&W. Recording with CRF 1 (closest to lossless quality) brings colour back to your videos in Vegas Pro. Still wish CRF 0 worked though as I record in 1080p and render in 1440p for YouTube so I need the best possible quality out of OBS.

NickHope wrote on 5/17/2017, 9:56 PM

I just did a recording in OBS Studio 18.0.1 with CRF 0 and it's fine in VP13 and VP14.

General
Complete name                            : D:\Sync\Videos\OBS-recordings\2017-05-18 09-49-07.mp4
Format                                   : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : Base Media
Codec ID                                 : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
File size                                : 769 KiB
Duration                                 : 6 s 574 ms
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 959 kb/s
Writing application                      : Lavf57.66.102

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : High 4:4:4 Predictive@L5
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 3 frames
Codec ID                                 : avc1
Codec ID/Info                            : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                                 : 6 s 574 ms
Bit rate                                 : 949 kb/s
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 200 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:10
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.014
Stream size                              : 761 KiB (99%)
Writing library                          : x264 core 148 r2762 90a61ec
Encoding settings                        : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x111 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=0 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=24 / lookahead_threads=4 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc=cqp / mbtree=0 / qp=0

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : AAC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile                           : LC
Codec ID                                 : 40
Duration                                 : 6 s 528 ms
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 1 525 b/s
Maximum bit rate                         : 64.0 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel(s)_Original                      : 1 channel
Channel positions                        : Front: C
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 46.875 FPS (1024 spf)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 1.22 KiB (0%)
Title                                    : Track1
Default                                  : Yes
Alternate group                          : 1
Peavii wrote on 5/21/2017, 12:26 PM

CRF 0 Used with "CPU Usage Preset = ultrafast" I found is the combination that causes black & white video in Vegas Pro. I don't know if there are more combinations with CRF 0 that do this. Also this is why Nick Hope's video was fine as he was using the Medium CPU Usage Preset.

NickHope wrote on 5/21/2017, 10:45 PM

Now in OBS Studio 19.0.2 it's OK at SuperFast. Seems like it's just Ultrafast that causes the problem.

Angel_Q wrote on 6/18/2017, 9:28 AM

Can someone please assist me? I am having the same issue that all files either pictures or video clips are black and white. I am unsure what I selected to make this defaulted but need help reversing this, I am pretty new to this program Sony Vegas 12.0 and would love some help, thanks again!

Angel_Q wrote on 6/18/2017, 9:34 AM

Nevermind.... beginner mistake. I figured it out.... it has to do with the Overlays icon. It appears I had clicked on it and it turned all ouput black and white. If you click on it again, it will correct itself .

@Promethium try this.

Vaytch wrote on 3/29/2018, 1:40 PM

I'm having a similar issue, but only with one file, an animation that I made using synfig. I tried every codec available and it always comes up in black and white no matter what I try.

Other files are in color.