TABLE OF CONTENTS Vegas 5 has many color correction tools capable of repairing even the most difficult footage with greatly improved result. A color correction toolset, a secondary color correction toolset, waveform monitor (WFM), vectorscope, parade scope, histogram view, and optimized hue saturation luminosity (HSL), color curves, broadcast filter, and more make Vegas one of the more powerful color correction capable NLEs available today. (See Figures 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4.)
Tools that can be used for color correction include:
Black Restore
Brightness and Contrast
Broadcast Colors
HSL plug-in
Color Curves plug-in
Color Balance
Color Corrector
Color Corrector Secondary
Gradient Mapping
Pixelan Chromawarp (third party)
The new color correction tools found in Vegas 5 provide the ability to set apart colors or a range of colors and to command isolated colors in order to suit emotional, artistic, accurate, or whimsical expressions.
Also, tools are available to maintain color shift from event to event in Vegas, which assists in matching shots from two different cameras or from DV to other video sources. Finally, Vegas provides tools that can limit or force colors to remain legal or become broadcast legal in Vegas.
These scopes and monitors are all tools to help identify color values and luminance values and to assist in color matching. Just having them doesn t correct color; they are for reference. Although we ll briefly discuss how to use them, this chapter is...
