newblue auto contrast in V14 different than V15

bitman wrote on 7/7/2018, 3:58 AM

I was testing the latest Vegas patch with the new Nvidia HEVC Nvec encoding support on an older V14 project opened in V15, and the resulting encoding quality was NOK (washed out, details lost etc...). I first blamed NVEC encoding, but that turned out not to be the issue. The real issue was the plugin "auto contrast" from Newblue wich I used a lot in that project. Strangely enough I needed to reduce by a very significant amount the intensity setting in the plugin to get the look and detail when opened in Vegas 15 to what I had in the past in Vegas 14 timeline view and the rendered result. As far as I know I never changed nor updated the plugin sw itself. So why is Vegas 15 requiring a change in the setting of this plugin?

Anyone experiencing the same issue?

Comments

bitman wrote on 7/11/2018, 1:04 AM

Bump,

Can someone offer any explanation?

OldSmoke wrote on 7/11/2018, 11:07 AM

Make sure the project settings are exactly the same.

bitman wrote on 7/11/2018, 12:14 PM

Make sure the project settings are exactly the same.

That may be a difficult one to compare or remember what it was, when installing Vegas 15 when it came out in 2017, I uninstalled 14, and the V14 created project was dormant on my hard drive. It was untouched by 15 and now opened for the first time in Vegas 15 with the afore mentioned issue...

Is there maybe something different under the hood of V15 concerning color or contrast or related OFX treatment versus V14?

Red Prince wrote on 7/11/2018, 12:36 PM

It was untouched by 15 and now opened for the first time in Vegas 15 with the afore mentioned issue...

Sounds like your project settings are exactly the same, then.

jetdv wrote on 7/11/2018, 4:41 PM

@bitman, I would suggest you contact NewBlue support and send them the file in question as well as any comparison images you can provide.