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8 bit uncompressed looks soft on Direct TV
Does anyone know why 8 Bit should look soft on a direct TV signal? We are outputting 10bit now but there was an Epi that went out 8 bit. Why should 8 look so bad? Also, The channel we are broadcasting on isn’t very rich in color. I’m affaird to boast my SAT or contrast. Thoughts? ANyone????
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What did you deliver on and it’s a shame what broadcast encoding can do to a nice image.
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I outputted directly to Beta SP. They ingest the BETA into their server and its broadcasted. The interesting thing is their commercials look allot better in the program then our show. I am shooting on HD online HD the output to 10bit for the SD signal they want.
Is that the color red you want to use?
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Well, you can certainly deliver a higher quality master than BetaSP. Digibeta will be a lot cleaner and will retain your 10bit depth. When mastering to BetaSP you are going to analog and all of it’s quirks. 8 bit uncompressed is no longer 8 bit uncompressed. What BetaSP deck do you have?
Jeremy
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Beta should look fine. You can hook any Beta deck up the trasmitter and get a good clean image (not a good as Digital though). My guess is that the stations system has compressed the image into MPEG so it will not take up much space on the server. I imagine some of the other footage may look better than yours because it was delivier in a medium (digtal) that was close to the MPEG 2 format. This is just a guess. You could aks what video codec is being used at the station when the Beta tapes are digitized. I doubt they use uncompressed on a server.
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[arc nevada] ” I doubt they use uncompressed on a server. “
Most definitely not.
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I have a beta 1400. The Network we are on doesn’t take Digibeta. They would take DVCAM but thats smaller file size the Beta.
Is that the color red you want to use?
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Then it appears that’s the best it’s going to get. Will they take a digital file?
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[arc nevada] “My guess is that the stations system has compressed the image into MPEG so it will not take up much space on the server. I imagine some of the other footage may look better than yours because it was delivier in a medium (digtal) that was close to the MPEG 2 format. This is just a guess.”
No guess involved… Before video is sent to a satellite it is highly compressed, and analog video suffers much more than the digital formats. DigiBeta looks many times better after satellite transmission.
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THe other issue is…. THat some of the other shows on this same network. Have a little sharper or deeper color look then we do. Our Show goes through a color corrector and should have a deeper saturated look.
Is that the color red you want to use?
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DVCAM. but thats not better then BETA.
Is that the color red you want to use?
Producer for HIGHER GROUND OUTDOORS.
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