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Project deadline: really need some help… THANKS!
I have a Sony PD-150 (my HVX200 is on the way) and I shot some footage today with the following settings…. 60i, DVCAM mode (instead of just DV), Progressive (instead of interlace) and a shutter spead of 100.
When I capture into FCP (5.04) using Firewire NTSC basic/DV NTSC 48khz the footage is REALLY grainy. I have made sure that all the playback settings are good (ie: not in half playback quality etc.). Is there any other capture setting I should be using for DVCAM?
Thanks!!!!
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The PD-150 will not shoot progressive-scan video at 60i. It only shoots it at half 29.97 (somewhere around 15). So if your shutter speed was at 100 (which should normally be at 60) and your actual video frame rate was around 15 frames (doubled to playback at 29.97), you are losing a few stops of sensitivity. Was auto-gain on? If so, it would have compensated by adding gain and making it grainy in the process.
The DVCAM mode setting has nothing to do with it, however.
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Also, are you watching this on a NTSc monitor or your canvas?
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I am looking at it in FCP on my 17″ G4 laptop…
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I am looking at it in FCP on my 17″ G4 laptop…
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Sorry… you are correct it was at 29.97 but the gain was not turned on. Anything else? What about the capture setting to use in FCP?
Thank you so much for your help!!!
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Please do me a favor, and hook up your PD150 through firewire, refresh your a/v devices, connect the svideo or composite out to a tv (any tv will do for now) and tell me what it looks like then.
Jeremy
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will do in the morning…. thanks!
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The only difference between DV and DVCAM is that the PD150 runs the tape faster for DVCAM, thus recording he SAME data over a larger tape-surface, reducing the chance for tape dropout. There is NO diffirence in the data being recorded, and this can not be the cause for (or absence of) grain.
When you digitise a tape that was shot on a PD150 through firewire, it either works or it does not (you can’t introduce distortion or grain in this step of the process). When you capture NTSC like this, the SAME data that was on the tape gets tranferred to the machine. It does not get transcoded or re-compressed. So this can also not add any grain to your picture.
If your picture is grainy, that is what was recorded in the camera. Sorry. To get rid of it, re-shoot. Sorry.
Why is it post-production people always apologise so much? Because we are so often asked to fix errors made earlier in the production, and quite often it is just not possible.
Regards
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Yes you r correct. Why PP people are always suffers for the Errors by the Production side.
Just re shoot it, Thats the only option
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