Best way to "crush blacks" in vegas or with Magic Bullet editors

[JCVR]

Color correction is fun and all, but what is the best proceedure to crush blacks using the tools in vegas and/or magic bullet?

 

[David Jimerson]

Try the "Offset" slider in the Color Corrector or Secondary Color Corrector.

Or, use the color curves and flatten out the lower left corner a little.

 

[DBoz699]

Can you also use from Studio RGB to Computer RGB? It darkens the blacks to like super black..but I'm not sure if thats the best way to do it.

is it?

 

[David Jimerson]

That's just a color-correction preset. It darkens the blacks with the Offset slider.

 

[pmark23]

Colour Curves!

 

[LostInSound]

I've been using Brightness/Contrast to crush em', is there any reason not to do it this way?

 

[David Jimerson]

If you're satisfied with the results, then it's fine. But if you use color curves, you can crush the blacks without increasing the highlights.

Of course, you can also do that by moving your contrast center, but I like the visual representation the curves give.