Widescreen/Color Correction Question

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I'm using Vegas 6 and working in a 24p timeline, I shot footage with the Anamorphic Adapter with letterbox.

My question is when I color correct the footage, the effect also affects the black bars.

Meaning, say I add brightness to the footage, the black bars also becomes brighter. This is apparent when viewing the project after rendering on a T.V or Computer.

The widescreen project plays fine, the bars are light due to the added brightness effect, Every part of the T.V/computer is black accept the bars, it looks weird.

Maybe I can post a snapshot if some don't understand.

Is there anyway to avoid this. Can I just add the effect to the image and not have it affect the bars?

Since the bars are part of the picture because I shot in letterbox, I guest I'm stuck?
 
Over the weekend, I'm going to try it and see what happens, the reason I shot Anamorphic plus letterbox was so I can get that 2.35.1 aspect ratio, I've read many post where I could of just shot Anamorphic alone then crop to 2.35.1 in vegas, but that seemed like a headache.

So now that I'm stuck, if I crop out the bars out, will I still have the 2.35.1 aspect ratio?

Also: David, check this response you gave back in this old thread http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=80715&highlight=2.35.1

Let's say I decide not to crop out the Black Bars and leave them, will the method you explained in that thread work the same for my project? I really wanna keep the bars, but I wanna get rid of the Grey...
 
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Me, I'm lazy, with time on my hands and lots of hard drive space.

I'd completely finish editing, render out everything to an AVI, then pull that AVI in as the sole media and crop it then. Once.

Um...well...I'd crop it to 16:9 then put an overlay with the 2.35:1 correct-color-bars crop on the track above.

Beats the heck outa cropping a zillion and three separate events.
 
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