My VV3 mpegs are purple

RichMacDonald wrote on 11/22/2001, 11:19 PM
When rendering to mpeg or mpeg2 using the Ligos GoMotion renderer in VV3, much of the white space (direct sunlight) and all the skin tones are bright purple. Everything else is lightly shaded purple.

I haven't seen this in the Forum, so I suppose I have a setup problem. Rendering to avi and using TMPGenc works fine.

Could be a mea culpa. A few days ago, in anticipation of VV3 but before it was released, I downloaded a crack for the Ligos renderer in VV2 to check it out. (Yes, illegal, but I bought VV2 and VV3, and it was the weekend so I could not phone in the registration, and the Ligos registration failed when I tried to do it legally, and I was desperately out of storage due to the avi/mpeg duplication with TMPGenc. Nuff said.) Anyway, the crack unlocked the Ligos renderer but also caused purple mpegs in VV2. If I rendered an avi directly after rendering a purple mpeg, the avi was also purple. I had to exit and reload VV2 to render the avi correctly. Anyway, I unloaded everything and manually wiped out everything "Ligos" in my registry, but I must have missed it because Ligos never asked to be registered again after I reinstalled. So perhaps I have a registry hangover. Otherwise, not a clue.

Comments

Cheesehole wrote on 11/23/2001, 12:35 AM
question: why are you using the Ligos mpeg encoder when the Main Concept one that comes with VV3 is supposed to be much better?
Jamz wrote on 11/23/2001, 2:37 AM
You have to try the Main Concept encoder. I used to think Ligos was the best but you gotta see the quality of Main Concept to believe it!!!
RichMacDonald wrote on 11/23/2001, 2:45 AM
Because I'm a dummy. I just saw the "mpeg" format in the render drop down and never looked any further.

Fixed the problem. MainConcept doesn't have the problem. Thanks for the dummy help.

Wow. MainConcept mpeg is even more complicated than TMPGenc. So where can we get instructions on all these settings? Nothing in the vegas help and nothing on google. Oh well, time to tinker.
Randini wrote on 2/6/2013, 1:36 PM
All my mpg are purple and it shows MainConcept. How do you tell exactly that what my setting is? I know when I go to render settings I see the MainConcept logo. This purple is driving me crazy!! Please help.