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Alternative to squeeze?
So I shot some footage in squeeze mode and captured the footage. The footage looked very pixelated so I read the manual and saw that shooting in squeeze mode will result in a “poorer image quality.” Is there an alternative on the camera to shoot in 16×9 without using squeeze, perhaps a different camera setting?
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You could use the “letterbox” mode which is found in the same menu setting area as the “squeeze” mode. It simply inserts black “letter boxes” at the top and bottom of your picture. giving you a 16:9 look in a 4:3 canvas.
If you are planning to shoot “true” 16:9, then you need to be in squeeze and bring that content into a NLE that supports 16:9.
Keep in mind, the DVX is NOT the best for acquiring 16:9 content.
Tim Scarpino
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I’m using Sony Vegas 7, which captures in 16×9 but I’m wondering would I get a better picture quality if I used a different program?
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I guess I’d ask what do YOU mean by “better quality”?
The DVX100 is a great little camera for doing some things. In the end though, it does only have 1/3″ chips and records in the DV compression scheme of 5 to 1. You can certainly get a better camera with 2/3″ chips, better glass, greater signal processing and output to an uncompressed format, but are you willing to pay for it?
I’m not familiar with Sony Vegas, but I suspect you may have a variety of schemes to capture your media. You need to determine what those “ingestion” schemes are relative to what you’re looking for.
Make sense?
Tim Scarpino
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