Text media background is a noticabley lighter shade of black

Krezathal wrote on 11/22/2017, 3:06 PM

I was doing a credits sequence and I wanted the first few pieces of text to be against a black background, so I set the text media background to just be against nothing.

The problem is that, in the preview window it looks fine when the text fades in and out, but when rendered the background of the text is a noticeable shade lighter of black than the background colour. I thought it was a setting that was wrong but I tried having the text background both FULLY black and FULLY transparent but it gives the same result - when the text fades in it's a light shade of black but when it fades out and the text media box ends the black abruptly drops to a deeper colour.

I'm at a loss for what to do, because even though it's slight it's distracting and looks horrible. I've also run out of obvious options for what to do and rendering just to check if it's fixed or not is becoming tiresome.

Any advice? It's lost me a good half a day and I'm no closer to sorting it.

Thanks!

 

I'm using Vegas Pro 14

Comments

Rainer wrote on 11/22/2017, 4:46 PM

Save time since it's taken you so long already and none of the experts have commented so far: Try applying a computer levels to studio levels video output FX (click the tiny blue bar thingy on the menu line above the preview). Or put a 0.1,0.1,.0.1,1.0 (which I think equates to RGB 16, 16,16) generated really dark grey on a track below the text and extending to the end of your render. When you get a chance, search colorspace or levels on the forum for a whole heap of complicated explanations.

john_dennis wrote on 11/22/2017, 7:04 PM

This is how I do it.

NickHope wrote on 11/22/2017, 9:31 PM

Save time since it's taken you so long already and none of the experts have commented so far: Try applying a computer levels to studio levels video output FX (click the tiny blue bar thingy on the menu line above the preview). Or put a 0.1,0.1,.0.1,1.0 (which I think equates to RGB 16, 16,16) generated really dark grey on a track below the text and extending to the end of your render. When you get a chance, search colorspace or levels on the forum for a whole heap of complicated explanations.

0.063,0.063,0.063,1.0 is more accurate. Full story in this old thread. The "Fixes" part of SeMW Extensions allow you to type in "16/16/16".