Markings/brightening on finished film

[Lochie654]

Hi,

I'm using Videostudio Pro X6 to edit a few clips taken in a fairly dark auditorium with good central lighting which falls off quite a bit towards the sides of the stage.

When I import the clips into VSP and load each one into the timeline, then open it in the edit screen above, the clips seem to have been brightened somehow and show a marked deterioration in quality which is really obvious when the clips are saved as mp4 files. There's an ugly unevenness in the dark areas at the side.

There are two screenshots below, the left one shows the left side of an original unedited clip viewed in Gom player: the clip on the right shows the same section after being edited in VSP (no adjustments at all made, saved as a 720p mp4 file - 1080p is the same). A strip of the black VSP interface is included at the left to show how grey the clip has been rendered (and the weird markings on it): it's almost black in the original clip.

When I play the original 1080p MOV clips in GOM player and Windows media player, they look fine. Is VSP applying some kind of automatic brightening on import as the clip is predominantly dark? If so, is there a fix for it? Thanks.

[lata]

Hi

You do not give any details of the video files properties other than they are Mov, so why are you converting that to MP4, and what settings are you using?

From Share – towards the top is the option Same as Project Settings, you should then be able to select Same as First Clip.
If that option is available does that improve quality.

Oh
First go to F6 Preferences – edit tab and set Resampling Quality to Best

[Lochie654]

The files are 1920x1980 MOV files from a Nikon DSLR. Neither VSP nor Windows Live Movie Maker liked these files being loaded directly and although they allowed some editing, I couldn't get a good result on either program. LMM edited the clips very well for a couple of minutes, then the picture froze while the sound carried on choppily.

Eventually I got a copy of FormatFactory freeware which did a pretty good job of converting them to high quality WMV files which seem to edit fine now, without the weird patterns/brightening effect.