Re: Archiving with Sony Vegas
 

It's likely nothing to do with it being 8 bit video. You need to check your levels on the recorded video. You can check the levels using the Vegas' video scopes if you have the professional version.

Re: Archiving with Sony Vegas
 

So, what you are saying is that even if the video looks 'washed out' after rendering YUV to Lagarith, it still has the colors but I just need to correct the color back to same values using the Video Scope?