Render Settings Part 2 Color Correction(Day 4)

    This section is going to go over all of the color corrections that I put in my videos.  To start off I have an overview picture of the entire Vegas window. fig 1

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    You see where I have Brightness and Contrast highlighted, in that same window there is a Video FX tab which you want to select first so you can actually be able to see the brightness and contrast.  So after you have that selected your going to want to select brightness and contrast n drag Brighter (fig 2) on to your video part not the audio or it won't do anything.  After that it should bring up another window to adjust some settings. Your going to want to adjust everything exactly like I have it. fig 3

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    Next your going to find the Color Corrector and Color Corrector(secondary) in the same window as the Brightness, and then drag Studio RGB to Computer RGB (fig 4) onto your video file once again not the audio part.  For everything I am going over in this section you will using the video part and not the audio.  After that is done for both parts of the color corrector primary and secondary its time to move on to the next part.  Since no changes are needed when doing this kind of color correction.

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    This next part can get very difficult to understand because it deals with the Color Curves part that is right under the Color Corrector(secondary).  Find it, click it, and then drag what says Reset to None onto your video.  This should bring up another window. (fig 5) Now make sure your color curve looks remotely close to what I have. Its a little tricky because of the movement of the curve once you grab it and drag, But make sure it looks close to this. So select RGB in the box and there are two small blue buttons in the bottom left and top right corners. Your going to click and drag the grey boxes that are coming from those two squares and drag them to where about where I have them. (fig. 6)

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    The next part after all this is done is to find Sharpen in the same section that had all the other effects. (fig. 7) Once that is found then drag Reset to None yet again on to your video, and make the settings close to what I have. (fig. 8)

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    Keep in my mind that the Color Corrector and Color Corrector(Secondary) should only be used if you are not using the Color Curves.  If your using the Color Curves and add the Color Corrector(both types) then the video has so much color it that it gets a tad distorted.  So you can fiddle around with them seperately to see which one gets you the best quality.  Now all of the Color Correction should be finished as well as setting up some settings, which were covered in the previous section.  The next section will involve a few more editing things as well as all of my key settings for rendering.  So be sure you do not miss the next section, because the settings I go over are very important to how your videos turn out after being rendered.