Other than the "blooming reds" mentioned above, the video is properly white-balanced in the boxing ring area (look at the guy's pants and the area to the right). Probably mercury vapors over the ring and incandescants or sodiums over the rest of the arena.

Reducing the overall saturation might be a good first step before the secondary correction suggested above.

I have used colour Curves to remove red in a photo and it worked well.
Drag the filter (reset to none) on the picture and the then select the red channel from the RGB and play with that. I had a quick go and it seemed to work. i am also using PAL

Some members of this forums wrote this:
In the Color Curves tool, you can select only the red channel. Try that, it may give you the look you need
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You can also try the Secondary Color Corrector. It will act on just the selected colour range, it's very powerful.

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The secondary color corrector is the tool to use. I've had excellent results using the settings that I posted here:


"Don't know how to stop the problem with DV capture. To get rid of it, however, use the Secondary Color Corrector. Select something that is "blooming red." Play around with your selection until you get a broad range of red colors. Then, use the saturation control to lower the saturation of just red. I do this all the time, and it is almost a standard filter that I use on any VHS (and sometimes SVHS) tape".

If you want, you can use my settings as a starting point. I wish there were an easy way to pass along the presets here in this forum. Lacking that, here are the settings for my "VHS Red Correction" preset for the Secondary Color Corrector:

Rorate Hue: 0
Saturation: 0.816
Gamma: 1.000
Gain: 1.000
Offset: 0.0
Angle: 0.0
Magnitude: 0.00
Alpha 1.00
Show mask: unchecked
Limit Saturation: checked
Low: 61.0
High: 96.2
Smooth: 48.1
Limit Luminance: checked
Luminance Low: 62.8
Luminance High: 127.5
Luminance Smooth: 83.1

Limit Hue: checked
Limit Hue center: 100.0
Limit Hue Width: 28.6
Limit Hue Smooth: 0.0

Depends how far you want to take it :-)

I was playing around with it too!

Check this out.

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

The problem is getting the red OUT, not just cutting back on saturation. Note the before and after scopes. The fist shows its far out of range.

The nice thing about Vegas is you can do a simple fix or just keep going. Adding the saturation adjust and a gradient map too can help you out in these situations.

BB - Very informative tute you just did. Before and After AND the settings . .THIS has made life a lot more easy for me . . Seeing IS believing . . .thanks for the time you've put in,

Grazie