Violet2010

I have refined the mask, with 100% " feathering" and am now running another version of the clip inside the mask, but moved just enough to avoid the letters, and it works so well I cannot really notice it myself now. Many thanks for all your help Violet

Ohhhhhhhhhhh !!!!! Light bulb moment! I can only wonder why no other source told em this, when it now seems to obvious! I now have the filter downloaded into my video editing programme, but as yet cannot persuade it to only clean up the logo in the bottom right hand corner, despite telling the filter screen that's where it is!!!!! So far it insists in making the whole screen black. Ho Hum! I'm sure there's a way, I just haven't found it yet Thanks for your continuing patience and help Violet

Another way would be to insert a mask and run the same video inside the mask but move it an inch up or down. Assuming there was a suitable area of background within an inch or so of the video, you could make the mask very small - about a quarter inch larger than the text all around and just run the same video both inside and outside the mask, except offset the one inside just enough to hide the text I have tried the above method, and this is the best option so far.... I need to show it to some unsuspecting volunteers and see if they notice it Many Thanks Violet

This download looks like a great idea, BUT unfortunately it is a .vdf file, and no matter how hard I try, I cannot get my PC to open it. Microsoft directs me to a whole range of websites offering to clean up my registry, ( which is not a bad idea in itself) but does not solve the actual problem. I can report this having tried for the last several hours!!! Thanks for the idea Tom Violet

I will give them full credit as the source at the end of the sequence, and indeed yous suggestion is one alternative I have been considering. If I cannot find a neat solution that is what I will do thanks Violet

Thanks LinSome ideas for me to try , not sure which will work yet, and maybe more than one option , as I have split the original film into three video clips, so different solutions may work for different kinds of background Violet

Screen capture 01.doc Screen capture attached - hope this helps! Violet

Unfortunately that would not work, as I need to include the video clips in an AV sequence of many other images. thanks anyway Violet

I need to hide three letters of text, superimposed on video clips by the organisation who have given me permission to use them. The letters are near the bottom right- hand corner. I cannot avoid them showing, and have tried a variety of masks using textured PNG files, to no avail. The blob on the screen looks worse than the 3 letters do. The background of the video footage obviously changes, but the text is always in a greyish white. Anyone got any suggestions? thanks Violet

Yup that's the answer! When I resave them with an allocated sRGB colourspace, the colours all come back to life in PTE too Many thanks once again for all your help and interest Violet

I think I have found the answer.... on chekcing the metadata. The images were all taken by my daughter, and the ones losing colour saturation are saying Colour space uncalibrated. I do not know how she has managed to do this. She is an experienced photographer, I will talk to her tomorrow. Many thanks for your help. I will attenpt to re edit and allocate a colour space, and see what happens. Violet

All images are, to the best of my knowledge, in sRGB , they are resized in Photoshop to the same size. 1400 px x 1050 px to be used in PTE. I have made a mini sequence, using a mixture of images. The first Harvest mouse is vibrant, the second is not, although they both look exactly the same when vieweed via Bridge in Photoshop CS5. Like wise the kingfishers, the first is vibrant, the second has lost his vir=brancy. The red squirrel and the golden sedge frog both just look sad, although the JPegs are brightly coloured. and will attach the fully vibrant JPEG images as well. just give me a few minutes to learn how to do this, I'm new here... not new to photography or producing AVs, just new here... In fact, if someone can advise me how to post up the AV and the JPEGS, that will same me some time trying to find out... many thanks for taking the time to help me here

It's well nigh impossible to post a desaturated example , as it only desturates when embedded in a PTE sequence. The colour is not a problem when saved in JPEG, TIFF, Save for web and devices, at any file size, only when imported into PTE. On the same monitor, the saturation is there in the pic when viewed in Photoshop, but dissipates when imported into a PTE sequence. The colour is not restored when a sequence is created, in either .pte or as an MPEG file, and viewed on my PC monitor or my daughter's MAC I've tried both of those options too. Violet

All images are using the same colour space sRGB. The problem is occurring within a series of images taken by the same camera and edited with the same software, some are losing saturation, others are not. thanks for taking the time to reply Violet

I have noticed a siginificant loss of colour saturation in some images when I import them into PTE 7.0 This is occurring not just with my own images, but also some, but not all, taken by my daughter, using a different camera and different editing software. It is most apparent on wildlife photos. For example, a red squirrel has lost most of his red colouring; in another instance some photos taken in a sequence , of the same bird, have been largely desaturated whilst others remain the same. has anyone else noticed this? and most importantly, how do I resolve it? thanks Violet