Video clarity difference in VP 10 and Adobe PP

Siby wrote on 4/21/2012, 9:03 AM
I am working on a video interview project. I captured the video in 1080i with a sony cx700 camera with a white background and manually white balanced settings. The video direct output looks stunning in my windows media player before I do any editing. Same output when I imported into PP CS5. But when I looked thru the VP 10 preview window, the sharpness, color, brightness etc.. at least 50 less.. I think some of my VP10 settings are not correct.

Anyone experienced the same problem in the past. Any soluation for this.

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/21/2012, 11:22 AM
Is the preview on the best/full setting?
Siby wrote on 4/21/2012, 11:30 AM
preview (auto)
TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/21/2012, 1:58 PM
Auto could be changing the resolution of the preview and that could be the issue,
johnmeyer wrote on 4/21/2012, 3:37 PM
If you don't set it to "Best, Full" you won't get full fidelity (quality) video.
kcw wrote on 4/21/2012, 7:12 PM
Apply the "Studio to Computer RGB" Color Corrector to the preview window and it should be much closer to PP. Videos will always look washed out otherwise, as the preview window is set for Computer RGB, with black at 0, but Vegas converts black to 16, or Studio RGB.

Put the exact same footage in both Vegas and PP, then look at the RGB scopes for each. After you apply the Color Corrector FX, the scopes will look almost identical, at least with HDV or AVCHD footage, as I have tested both that way.

Of course, for most of what you will want to render, you will need to remove the Color Corrector FX before you render. WMV files, for example, need to be rendered with the Color Corrector FX applied, but MP4 files do not.