Sony Vegas 11, Magic Bullet Looks, AF100, Render to DVD

[Robert Eldon]

I'm having problems rendering AF100 footage to DVD out of Sony Vegas 11. When viewing the footage from the DVD on a television or LCD TV, the footage is darker than viewing it in Vegas.

I've scoured the web and found the articles by Glenn Chan and others and it seems to have something to do with Studio RGB levels vs Computer RGB levels. I've calibrated my external preview monitor, but to no avail. I've tried setting the Preferences, Preview Device, Adjust levels from studio RGB to computer RGB, and that does affect the external monitor, but still no effect to the rendered DVD.

I've also noticed when using Magic Bullet Looks, that the studio RGB to computer RGB has no effect on the MB Looks image?

I've removed all Video Effects from the clips and rendered using DVD Architect 24p NTSC Widescreen video stream. The Shadow/Dark areas seem to be crushed.

Does the render process alter the 'levels' of the video?

Has anyone else run into this and discovered a solution? I'd really like to dial in the workflow and settings for editing AF100 footage with Sony Vegas and rendering to DVD. I'd also like to prepare the footage for broadcast levels.

 

[Robert Eldon]

After a lot of testing, I've discovered something that seems to work, the only thing is, I don't know why or how.

What I've done is, just before rendering, to set a 'Sony Levels' fx on the Video Bus Track (from the View menu) and set it to Computer RGB to Studio RGB. The image in Vegas looks washed out, but after rendering using DVD Architect 24p NTSC Widescreen video stream, the DVD looks correct when playing on a TV and LCD TV.

Don't know why? If anyone can shed some on light on this, I would greatly appreciate it? And if this is the wrong workflow, let me know what the best workflow is?

Many thanks!