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🎬 Issue with Canon C100 – Burned-in Overlays (ATH) on .MTS Files
Hey everyone! I’m working on a project shot with a Canon C100, and I’ve run into a problem: the .MTS rushes I received have camera overlays (ATH) like timecode, ISO, audio meters, etc. burned into the footage.
Here’s the context:
- The files were recorded internally (AVCHD format, .MTS)
- The overlays show up in VLC, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci, so they’re definitely baked into the image
- I can’t turn them off or disable them
❓ Has anyone experienced this before? Could it be due to Display Info being turned ON during internal recording?
🙏 Any advice on how to prevent this in future shoots, or tips to hide or work around the overlays in post without cropping too much would be hugely appreciated.
Thanks in advance ✌️
replied 12 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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Oh, yes, this is definitely in the recording. They should have turned off this information on the camera. I’m sorry, but I don’t think there is a way to fix this in post.
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Hey Raynell,
Out of interest, are you sure that you have got the original rushes that came straight out of the camera?
I looked up the manual, and wanted to reverse engineer your issue, by finding the menu item that allows me to burn information on to the media. The only thing of value, although I did not search that hard for it, was a menu to add overlay information to the SDI feed out to monitor.
Some years back I used After Effects Generative Fill to remove numbers out of a documentary – sometimes it worked, and sometimes it did not. But might work on some of your shots.
Hope this helps?
Atb
Mads
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