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Video issues in Avid
I am getting fragmentation my in video after capture in Avid Media Composer. Looks fine on the camera viewer, but becomes distorted after putting it in Avid. I have attached a still frame from the video. Does anyone know what can cause this?? I get this with all video I put in Avid Media Composer. Seems to happen more on panning shots or shots with movement. I am also getting pixilation on sharp edges of images in video.
Thanks for any help!
Denise
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Is that a QT snapshot, or one from the Avid interface? Doesn’t look like the Avid interface. The Avid Preview and Program monitors aren’t designed to show you full quality playback. They are meant as reference only. But, you can increase the quality by clicking on the colored oval/square box on the lower left of the timeline. Full yellow is full draft quality. Half yellow/half green is half quality. And full green is full quality. But, some breakup might occur. but ONLY in those windows. To actually see what your footage looks like, you need to view it on an external monitor. You’ll need the Avid hardware (Nitris, Mojo) to do this (Or MXO2 mini if you are on Avid MC5).
Shane
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Shane,
Thanks for your response! I’m working in Avid Media Composer and have
Nitris. The image I attached is from a frame in the video I copied after it was exported and put through Sorenson. What I see when the video is viewed on a TV monitor is quick distorted lines, mostly in moving subjects or pans. The lines in the image is what I found when I froze it in one frame. I do have the bubble in all green when I capture and edit. I don’t see any distortion in the view finder of the camera (PD 170)when I play it back, just in playback in Avid, on the exported video and on DVD. ??Denise
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AH…well, you got me there.
SOrry.
Shane
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Yeah. this is a tough one! Haven’t found anyone yet that knows what the problem is! Thanks anyway Shane.
Denise -
Info please…
How are you acquiring the footage? Camera? Stock clips? Tape based camera or file based? HD or SD? NTSC or PAL? Frame rate? Many many things can cause these issues.
Since you saying it is giving you more noise on horizontal movement shots it sounds like you editing footage that is originally 720×480 in a 30i project. And a 30i project is 720×486… This will assuredly give you this problem you describe. If this is the case, when importing your footage, make sure to click your “options” tab. Then select “Crop/Pad for DV scan line difference.” That’s where I’d start.
-J
– Justin Gray
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Hello Justin,
I will check the settings you mentioned and see if that fixes my problem.
I am acquiring the footage with a Sony PD 170, SD, NTSC. I’m not sure the frame rate. I capturing straight from the camera into the computer via firewire.
Denise
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Hi Denise,
I was reading through this thread and wondered if you figured out the solution? This seems to happen to me and I’m trying to deal with it! Grateful for any pointers you can let me have!
Best wishes
Simon Keating -
Hi Simon,
This is Lynn, Denise’s business partner, I was right there when we found the problem and I wish I could just tell you exactly what to do but I can tell you the key that put us on the right path. One respondent said “Just make sure you’re NOT deinterlacing.” We got down the manual looked up the term and then went through all the steps checking every setting, then testing video. It’s solved now but boy what a Diva Avid can be!
Good Luck!
Lynn -
hi Lynn,
could i ask you how to resolve the problem? i use avid media composer 7 and i have the same problem when the subject is in movement in my video…this only happens when i import (throught the ama files, avchd plug-in) the videos in avid.Thanks.
Marco.
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