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Something that's been talked about lately in another forum I attend is that the preview window in Sony Vegas has about 10% less contrast compared to... well just about any other NLE out there including CS5. Here's an image that was posted on a blog showing a capture from the Vegas preview window (left) versus one in another NLE (right). Supposedly most, if not all, NLEs will look like the one on the right. Someone from Sony said that basically their's was better than everyone else's and was set to accomodate more professional standard monitors. Can this possibly be true? I find it hard to believe that virtually every other NLE out there has its preview window's color space/contrast scheme set-up incorrectly. First, it would require that everybody who has Vegas go out and buy a pro monitor set to match Sony's preview window, and obviously few people buying the product have the money to do that. Secondly, an argument was made that any video produced in Vegas would look different in every other video program you use, and we all switch between programs for various things, so it would seem to me that it's best if all NLEs have preview windows that are set the same.
So I guess I'd like to know if Sony is correct about their preview window being set correctly while everyone else's is wrong, and if there's any kind of standard for preview windows in NLEs? I don't monitor on an external monitor anymore since I went HD, but I'd like to one day, and now I don't know what to buy or even what to look for.

But the thing I'm thinking of most is all the people who use one of Sony's cheaper editors than Pro. I doubt very much that someone using something like Vegas Studio knows anything about calibrating montors and is probably just using their computer monitor anyway. They get things looking the way they want in the program's preview window and then after rendering/exporting their finished movie find that it looks too dark now in something like Windows Media Player or on their TV if they made a DVD. It makes no sense. Nobody buying a $75 program is going to be using a pro monitor.
And why would anybody want an NLE that's going to force them to readjust the monitor every time they switch applications?

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