Whenever I try to adjust the color of a scene it gets distorted/squiggly lines.

Question

Using elements 12; This is my first time editing by the way. Whenever I try to adjust the color of a scene the footage gets distorted/squiggly lines. This is prior to me rendering the footage -- I don't know if that has anything to do with it.

Answer 1

mrdemiraj81
Thanks for the reply.
General
Are you saying that scenes with and without color correction had those quiggly look?
Are you aware of the More button at the bottom right of the Lighting Panel expanded? When you click on that, you should have opportunities
to adjust your settings. Right now you are looking at the More view. Note the Less bottom at the bottom right of the Lighting Panel expanded. You would click on Less to get back to the original view which does not have the adjustments sliders included.
More Specifics
Definitely start with the look at unrendered (orange line over content) versus rendered (green line over content).
Once that is ruled out then we can explore alternative explanation for what you are observing.
If unrendered/rendered is not the answer, could you post a screenshot of one of scenes with the "distorted/squiggly lines"
But, if you cannot, written Q&A will have to do.
1. Can you get the properties of this 4 min promo video - video compression, audio compression, frame rate, interlaced or progressive, file extension, pixel aspect ratio. If you do not have this information, it can be obtained from the MediaInfo (Tree View) program.
http://mediainfo-mac.en.softonic.com/mac
Just be careful for unwanted carry alongs during the download and install of MediaInfo. In the MediaInfo (Tree View), please look for what are listed for Scan Type and Scan Order.
2. Also, please tell us what you see listed in the opened project under
Edit Menu/Project Settings/General and the readings for Editing Mode, Timebase, Frame Size, and Pixel Aspect Ratio (even if the fields look grayed out).
Let us start here. If there is anything that you need clarification on, please do not hesitate to ask. I will rewrite if necessary.
Thanks.
ATR