Vegas Pro 22 Edit Bld 194 Issues with noise textures

anthony-chiappette wrote on 1/20/2025, 6:26 PM

I am having an issue with noise textures that is driving me insane. I have been using a noise texture as backgrounds for the videos I am creating. I always put the noise textures in the last video track at the bottom of the timeline. I make my customizations, and the backgrounds look fine in the videos. The issue occurs when I take snapshot of the frame that contains a background. The background texture comes out darker in the snapshot. I have attached 2 screenshots showing the difference in brightness between the original texture, and the captured PNG using the screenshot function in the preview window. Why is it doing this?

For what it's worth, it doesn't always happen. I believe it happens when I change the colors of the texture. In fact, I just tested it. I put a texture on the timeline and didn't change anything. When I took a snap of it, the PNG is exactly the same as the texture. I then changed the coloring of the texture and took another snapshot. The snapshot now appears darker than the texture. Is there any way to avoid this, or is this a bug?

 

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Howard-Vigorita wrote on 1/21/2025, 9:23 AM

@anthony-chiappette In the past I've run into issues with Vegas png screen snapshots and saving them. Found I could minimize the issues by putting the preview into best-full, capture the preview with Vegas as usual, but then paste the clipboard into the Windows Paint-3D app and save it to a png clip from there. If that doesn't solve your issue, you could always do the screen-clip with the Windows function using the Shift-Win-S keys marking out the Vegas preview.

anthony-chiappette wrote on 1/21/2025, 1:48 PM

That's a great idea,  I forgot about the quality setting in preview. I'm going to try that now. The alternate screenshot solution will also work. Thank you.

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anthony-chiappette wrote on 1/21/2025, 2:01 PM

I tried increasing the preview quality to best, but that didn't help. I did try the screen capture function, but the capture was slightly fuzzy, the difference is obvious when compared.

However, I did discover that the problem doesn't come from just changing the colors in the texture, it happens when changing the color intensity. If left at full intensity it's fine, but if decreasing the color intensity for one of the colors, the captured image is darker. Strange. Thanks for the suggestions. I do wish there were more textures included with Vegas.

ASUS Prime Z590-A Motherboard with Intel Core i7 11700 8 Core / 16 Thread 2.50GHZ, 64GB Crucial DDR4 3200( 4 x 16GB), nVidia GeForce GTX1650Super 4GB DDR5, SoundBlaster X AE5 soundcard, 3 x 4TB Samsung 860 EVO SATA 3 SSD, 2 x 8TB Samsung 870 QVO SATA 3 SSD, 1 x 2TB Samsung 980 Pro NVME PICE4 SSD, 2 X WD 4 TB NVME PCIE3 SSD, 2 X Viewsonic monitors, LG Blu-Ray writer. Windows 11 (latest build), currently using Vegas Pro Edit 22 latest build.