Color Curves

The color curves in VEGAS Pro give you a powerful tool for fine-tune adjustments to your video’s brightness, contrast, and color. The VEGAS Pro Color Grading panel features four curves, one for brightness, and one for each of the three primary colors, red, green, and blue.

Access the Color Curves

  1. Click the Color Grading button to open the Color Grading panel.

  2. Click the Color Curves tab to make that the active section.

In the default configuration, all four color curves use a single graph, but only the Brightness curve appears to begin with.

Adjust shadows and highlights

  • To adjust your video’s shadows, drag the control on the left end of the Brightness curve.

  • To adjust the highlights, drag the control on the right end.

  • Use the yellow curve handles that appear on each control point to change the shape of the curve without moving the point. Each of the other curves works the same way.

Add additional control points

You can also add additional control points to any curve for even greater control. To add a new control point, double-click the curve line at the location you want the new point.

NOTE

Notice that control points that are not endpoints have two handles you can use to change the shape of the curve.

When you move one of the handles, the point’s other handle also reacts to the movement.

If you want to move one handle without changing the shape of the curve on the other side of the control point, right-click the control point and choose Lock Tangents from the context menu.

With Lock Tangents disabled, you can change one handle without also changing the other.

Activate the other curves

Click the Select Curves button and select the checkbox for the curve you want. All of the curves you activate will appear on this same graph.

View all four curves

Since working on multiple curves over one graph can be a bit confusing, you can also view all four curves simultaneously.

  • Drag the left border of the Color Curves section to the left.

  • After you expand the panel far enough, the four color curves appear side by side each on its own graph, as seen in the image below.