Trouble with the colors

RockeyNumber1 wrote on 6/28/2008, 12:08 AM

I have laid down clips and you can see in the thumbnails the colors and they look great. But if you look in the preview box, it acts as if there is chroma key on. They grass looks dark and my cousin, who has a bright green bathing suit, seems to be wearing a black one. I have not added any video FX to the clip. What can be causing this?

And does it matter that the project I am working on has a lot of video FX in the other clips? could I somehow be overloading the software?

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Ivan Lietaert wrote on 6/28/2008, 12:14 AM

Could it be that you have added a videofx, not to the video event, but to the whole track? That seems the obvious explanation here.
So check the track fx.
Overloading the program is unlikely but not impossible, but imo would not give that result, but rather a crash.

Tim L wrote on 6/28/2008, 7:41 AM

It is also possible to add Video FX directly to a piece of media, in the media pool, so that the effect will be applied wherever that clip is used in your project.

I just tried it (with Vegas Pro 7), and what surprises me is that the thumbnail in the Media Pool doesn't have any indication that a Video FX has been applied. I'd figured if you applied an effect to an individual clip in the media pool, that the thumbnail would get a little green FX icon or something.

Anyway, select the clip in your media pool, right-click on it, and then select "Media FX", near the bottom of the popup window. This will bring up the normal Video FX window -- you should be able to see if you have already (accidentally) applied the Chromakey FX to this clip.

Also, in the media pool window, along the top, you will see the little "box with two circular nodes" FX icon (just to the left of the Play and Stop icons). You can also use this icon to apply FX to the selected clip. The icon will be lit up green if you select a clip that already has FX applied.

I can see the Media FX feature being useful -- i.e. applying an effect to an entire clip -- if you had a clip that you wanted to apply color correction or contrast/brightness adjustments to, so that you would have consistent effects everywhere you used pieces of that clip in your project. But a little icon on top of the thumbnail would be nice.

Tim L

RockeyNumber1 wrote on 6/28/2008, 10:29 AM

I have checked the track FX and there isnt an effect applied

also i have overlayed a video clip onto of it but you couldnt see it which means it just looks like chroma key but does not act like it.

i am very very confused

Tim L wrote on 6/28/2008, 12:24 PM

If you do indeed have a chomakey effect, you need to put the other clip on a track *below* the clip with the chomakey. The chromakey makes the selected color transparent, so that whatever is on the track *below it* will show through.

Don't forget to check for accidental Media FX applied to the original clip in your media pool, as I suggested above. Other than chromakey, you could have some kind of color corrector or color curves effect applied to it, affecting the green channel.

Tim L

RockeyNumber1 wrote on 6/28/2008, 3:47 PM

I meant to say that i put it below. You cant see anything when you put a clip below it.

And I checked the media FX and there was nothing.