I read this in a past post:
"a horrible thought has entered my head. I fear many are falling into a BIG trap with Vegas. Vegas out of the box with an out of the box computer, Vegas's preview monitor, does NOT DISPLAY VIDEO CORRECTLY. To see your video correctly you must apply the Levels FX with the Studio RGB to Computer RGB preset to the preview monitor. You must ensure you turn it off for rendering. If you do this, render and Upload to YoutTube what you see on the average PC will match what you saw in the Vegas monitor with the correction applied. If your preview monitor is not correctly setup in the first place you'll think YT is screwing with your levels. If you want to check this it's pretty easy. Set the preview monitors background to black and then white. Your video's black and white should match those backgrounds."
This only appears to be for when you click the external monitor button and not the Video Preview player itself, am I correct? If I look at a raw clip from my camera with windows media player, and compare it to looking at that same raw clip dropped onto the vegas timeline, the video in Vegas looks like it's missing contrast compared with the one seen in WMP. Why is that? Shouldn't they look the same?
"a horrible thought has entered my head. I fear many are falling into a BIG trap with Vegas. Vegas out of the box with an out of the box computer, Vegas's preview monitor, does NOT DISPLAY VIDEO CORRECTLY. To see your video correctly you must apply the Levels FX with the Studio RGB to Computer RGB preset to the preview monitor. You must ensure you turn it off for rendering. If you do this, render and Upload to YoutTube what you see on the average PC will match what you saw in the Vegas monitor with the correction applied. If your preview monitor is not correctly setup in the first place you'll think YT is screwing with your levels. If you want to check this it's pretty easy. Set the preview monitors background to black and then white. Your video's black and white should match those backgrounds."
This only appears to be for when you click the external monitor button and not the Video Preview player itself, am I correct? If I look at a raw clip from my camera with windows media player, and compare it to looking at that same raw clip dropped onto the vegas timeline, the video in Vegas looks like it's missing contrast compared with the one seen in WMP. Why is that? Shouldn't they look the same?