Hi, this is a screenshot below from a shoot I just did. I am making video clips for a website. Can someone tell me what tool and settings to use in Vegas to make this image look good on a computer monitor, seems to be dull and unexciting...? The clips will never be viewed on a TV. Funny thing is, it actually looks good on my Television.. All help is appreciated..
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First question, will a viewer be used like PowerDV or WinDV? If so, normal 16-235 levels can be used and the player will level shift it. If you will be viewing in direct RGB then 16-235 would look better as as 0-255, but 0-255 will be crushed in black and have over hot whites on a TV.
Here is a simple 0-255 level conversion (not recommended, let the player do it)
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it's going to be video clips on a website, so only looked at on a computer. This is what I came up with, is it good? I figure the white shirt should look white:
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You can also do the white balance with 16-235 levels.
Something like this.
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I had to do a lot to get the above image: color corrector, color curves, and sharpen filters... does the one above look ok? Then again, what is "ok" as everyone has different brightness/contrast settings on his/her monitor... it looks nice on mine anyways...
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You need to observe what you are doing on the TV monitor and with a computer dvd viewer. And with it all calibrated.
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I am confused... my original picture was very dark and yellow looking, I used some of the filters to make it look brighter and his shirt white instead of yellow... did I do something wrong? Why do I need to see it on a TV if it's going to only be looked at on computer monitors?
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Originally Posted by sdsumike619
You will be making a nonstandard DVD if you optimize for raw RGB 0-255. If it's just going to a website, do what looks good to you on the webview.Recommends: Kiva.org - Loans that change lives.
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hmm I said several times that these clips are going on a website and will be viewed obviously by the vast majority of people on a computer monitor, there will be no DVD made at all, strictly web viewing in quicktime and wmv formats..
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Then go for it, whatever is pretty to you.
But if the client wants a DVD you would do it differently.
This one is 0-255 with color balance to white shirt and a gamma adjust.
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oh yeah, i'm totally aware of that, i know that the color levels are different for the two mediums, it looks good to me, the one that I showed you with it brighter and using the white shirt as a gauge for the rest of the shot..
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