What in the world

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jibadajaba

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I have Vegas 6 and it has worked great for me. Now all of a sudden all my renderings are very dark and I can barely see the picture. My old renderings that were once good are now also very dark. I have after effects too and it renders fine so it's not my player. I'm perplexed. I've uninstalled and reinstalled vegas to no avail. I don't get it. Any ideas?
 
you know I might have the same problem... but although I haven't been able to play around with it I think it might be Windows Player... I have no idea what it might be though as I have hardly even touched Vegas lately
 
That's the same thing with me. I haven't used it in a few weeks and now all of a sudden it's buggy. I also noticed that a short rendering I am doing with after effects creates a video with 130MB. The same rendering in vegas is only 17MB. I don't get it.
 
Nothing that happens in Vegas will affect anything you've already rendered, so if those clips have changed, it's not Vegas -- it's something else. Could be your media player, or your color settings (graphics card driver).
 
Are you outputting from Vegas and AE with the DV codec? The problem you describe sounds like it. The files look fine in both Vegas and AE's respective project windows, but get screwed up when played in Windows Media Player. And do you have an Nvidia chipset based video card? And, have you recently updated the drivers for your video card, sometime around the time the problem began to occur?

When playing back the DV codec, depending on both your video card settings and your display settings (both in you video card options AND the windows media player settings as well [yeah, I know, major pain in the ass]), Windows media player plays the footage darker and more saturated than what was in your Vegas project window.

This is something that has been a constant hassle and at one point the object of abject panic for me.



There are two ways to fix it, neither of which end up in the long run being satisfactory (more on why when they are explained)

Method 1:

1. In Windows Media Player, go to Tools>Options>Performance and click on Advanced.

2. Click the High Quality Mode in the Video Acceleration section, which will uncheck Use Overlays.

This will play back your video based solely on CPU performance with no video card assistance, disabling any hardware acceleration. Problem with this is hampers your CPU and no longer diaplays the correct pixel aspect ratio of your video.


Method 2:

1. In Windows media player, enable Show Enhancements, and go to the section where you have your video controls

2. Increase the Brightness to 6 and the Contrast to 2

This will give you a closer look to Vegas, but still leaves a degree of oversaturation, and Windows Media Player does not save these settings, so each time you open a DV video, you have to tweak them.



It's a pain, and as such, when I save anything from Vegas for viewing purposes only, I either go Quicktime or DivX. Neither of those have that issue, though Quicktime, depending on the codec you choose (most notably Sorenson and Sorenson 3) will very slightly darken the video.

So it's not a rendering problem, it's a playback problem and issue with your video card, overlay settings, and drivers. Try simply exporting as DivX, and see if the problem is still there. Odds are, it wont be.
 
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