V20- colorfast2 on track level spills over and affects empty track

Mindmatter wrote on 11/12/2022, 10:07 AM

1: normal emptiness - black, 2: second pic is colorfast affecting the empty track

Colorfast affects the "nothingness" of an event-free track with its settings. When turning up exposure for example, it creates a grey veil by bumping up the luminosity. Here's a more extreme setting:

I had the problem with colorfast spilling over before as an event FX, but one could usually get rid of it by placing it before the pan/crop in the chain.I can't remember seeing this in older V versions.

The other thing is that colorfast clashes with the LUT filter. When both are on at the same time, no matter where in the project chain, at one point the screen starts to flash yellow / green and then preview goes black until I restart Vegas.

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jetdv wrote on 11/12/2022, 1:40 PM

Do other effects do the same thing to other tracks?

Grazie wrote on 11/13/2022, 1:27 AM

@Mindmatter - Yes, initially, I could repro the issue, but only IF I place CF2 after the pan/crop in the chain. As you say:

I had the problem with colorfast spilling over before as an event FX, but one could usually get rid of it by placing it before the pan/crop in the chain.

The default when I add CF2 to the Track is that it appears prior to the Pan/Crop. Now, as I said initially, because I went ahead and applied "other" FXs, before, after P/C and now I can't repro the issue! Go figure. It's as if adding "other" FXs have/had shaken CF2 loose from this banding behavior. Now, once again, I can repro the issue!! Adding further FXs before/after P/C makes no difference to the Issue - the Issue remains an issue. This is waaaay above my pay grade and giving me a headache.

I gotta ask, what are you trying to achieve with your approach?

Mindmatter wrote on 11/13/2022, 4:23 AM

Thanks Grazie,
well basically it was the simplest way to add some exposure to a series of events by applying CF2 at track level instead of at each individual clip, as they all needed the exact same amount of correction. I saw it by chance, as the first event starts wirth a fade from pure black, and the banding just before that black gave it a jump from slight grey to black and then fade in. I first thought there vwas some sort of bad frame in the beginning of the event, it took me a while to figure out what was going on.
As there in no P/C at track level that I could but CF2 in front of, I guess I'll have to apply it at individual event level.

Mindmatter wrote on 11/13/2022, 4:24 AM

Do other effects do the same thing to other tracks?

haven't checked that yet, will do later today.