Text colour user selected but changed by program

[Davidk]

One of the most annoying and enduring features of VS - its been present in every version I have used from 11+ to X5 - is its ability to change a user selected text colour when entering titles, and be damned to the choice made by the user.

It happens when having entered the text of a title, one is trying to get a good readable contrast between the colour of the text and the background images it is displaying on. Selecting the text, a size and colour choice is exhibited in the edit panel. Selecting the colour 'square,' there are 3 choices presented - 32 simple ones on a palette or the choice of a much wider range using either Corel or windows colour pickers. Using either one of these latter pickers, selecting a colour and clicking OK inevitably gets a message panel that the colour has its been changed to something else. That sort of result is unsatisfactory, especially as it becomes a never ending circle. User friendly it is not. Corel may as well not offer the option for colour pickers at all as have the program do that.

This result has infected and frustrated every one of the hobby movie group I work with using VS as the editor. And it seems so unnecessary. Screen colours are only pixels, and if a user makes a bad choice they can always change it. Having the software make those high handed changes for reasons unknown really really pisses us off.

Why does the program do this???

What options are available to to turn this sort of behaviour OFF??

Thanks,

Davidk

[BrianCee]

David - it has been that way in many versions of VideoStudio for a very long time now but it is very easy to stop it.

Open the 'Preferences' dialogue window (press ~ F6) - across the top of the window click on the 'Edit' tab

right at the top - click to UNCHECK the "Apply Color Filter" check box - click OK at the bottom of the Preferences window and your problems should vanish - for ever - applies to all versions of VS.

[Davidk]

Trumpets sounding!!

Handstands!!

Gold medal score . . .

Muchas gracias.

Recommend that this become the default setting in future releases unless Corel can reasonably explain why a colour filter is needed in the first place.

Davidk

[BrianCee]

I was told it is there because older TV's could not display certain colours correctly and it only allows selection of TV system compatible colours.

but in these days of LED, LCD , plasma etc which seem to have no problem with any colour I would agree it does not seem necessary now - still as you now know it is easy to turn off - permanently.

[Davidk]

Interesting. Thanks for that.

Interesting - because my background before I retired is/was in communications/electronics/computer engineering. The assertion about not being able to correctly display certain colours on some TV's sounds like cr**. The major TV standards eg NTSC and PAL went to great lengths to specify the correct display of colours. The only major problem with NTSC in that regard was with the receiver maintaining colour sync with the broadcast signal, a function of the component tolerances of the day, and PAL/SECAM fixed both that, and produced a more competitive resolution result. Additionally, brands went to great efforts to design and market TV's that were - to summarise the ads - the greatest thing in viewer presentation since moses played fullback. That's been the situation since the early 1970's. The thing that led to digital TV's in the 2000's wasn't colour display but image resolution - analog just could not compare with digital using the available broadcast spectrum. And the rapidly improving resolution of computer-attached monitors (VGA, super VGA, XGA etc) drove that end result, particularly once CRT tube devices lost enough of their cost advantage.

None of that is rocket science and it should be obvious has been available data for a lonnggggg time.

Ta.