Limited vs Full range not visible Vegas Pro 23

JamesDDawson wrote on 9/9/2025, 7:31 AM

Hello everyone,
I’ve just upgraded from Vegas Pro 22 to Vegas Pro 23. In version 22, when I switched the Color Range setting from Limited (16–235) to Full (0–255), I could immediately see a clear difference in the Preview window (blacks got deeper, whites brighter, etc.).

In Vegas Pro 23, I still see the change in the timeline thumbnails, but the Preview window looks the same whether I select Limited or Full.

Is this expected behavior due to the new color-managed workflow in Vegas 23, or am I missing a setting that allows the Preview to actually show the difference like in Vegas 22?

Thanks!

Comments

andyrpsmith wrote on 9/9/2025, 10:25 AM

I see this as well, looking forward to the answer.

andyrpsmith wrote on 9/9/2025, 4:27 PM

I raised this as a possible bug in the V23 official thread.

JamesDDawson wrote on 9/9/2025, 4:31 PM

Many thanks! Hopefully this will be sorted out.

set wrote on 9/9/2025, 4:52 PM

VEGAS Pro 23 introduces the new Extended Color Format Conversion, and to disable this, go to Internal Preferences (press Shift while accessing Tools in the Menu tab), and see Internal Preferences, search the 'Enable Extended Color Format Conversion' from TRUE to FALSE.

This is created to modernizing the color space handling, to make better interpolation of the color plane for subsampled YUV source files (4:2:2 and 4:2:0) and correct coefficients for YUV>RGB conversion for color spaces that VEGAS didn't know natively before.

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 9/9/2025, 5:42 PM

I wonder how this change affects YouTube-destined projects. I stopped setting Vegas project properties to limited-range some time ago because only a full-range project's preview matched the rendered upload on YouTube. Maybe it'll match either way now. That would be a plus for folks who still keep their projects set to limited range.

andyrpsmith wrote on 9/9/2025, 6:32 PM

VEGAS Pro 23 introduces the new Extended Color Format Conversion, and to disable this, go to Internal Preferences (press Shift while accessing Tools in the Menu tab), and see Internal Preferences, search the 'Enable Extended Color Format Conversion' from TRUE to FALSE.

This is created to modernizing the color space handling, to make better interpolation of the color plane for subsampled YUV source files (4:2:2 and 4:2:0) and correct coefficients for YUV>RGB conversion for color spaces that VEGAS didn't know natively before.

Thanks for this, so if I turn this off V23 should behave like V22. I'll give it a try.

andyrpsmith wrote on 9/9/2025, 6:38 PM

Yes it now behaves as I expected, thank you.