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24p – Pixelation and Noise on Capture?
I have been given some tapes, with no indication of their specs. But the camera I use as a deck (JVC HD110u) says they’re DV-24p. So I’m going with that. (The Producer who gave them to me just wants this delivered on Monday and is gone for the weekend, so no luck in finding out these specs…)
When I play the footage back on the camera, it looks great. When I hook a camera up to the TV, it looks fine. But when I capture the footage in Final Cut Pro — it is pixelated and there’s visible noise. I’ve tried every camera setting, every FCP setting. I’ve tried capturing through my Kona card and I’ve tried capturing through firewire.
I don’t know what the pulldown situation of the 24p footage is, but I’ve tried captured with advanced pulldown, without, and just as regular dv ntsc and they all look exactly the same.
The footage looks fine in the Log and Capture window. But as soon as I click capture it goes to crap.
I checked out the JVC HD110 manual and there is a note then when playing tapes recorded on another camera, there may be noise. But if this is the case, I imagine I’d see it when I hook the camera up to the TV as well and I don’t.
The only situation in which I don’t have pixelation, is when I set the camera to 24p, set the Kona to 23.98, and set fcp to 23.98 and it actually does get rid of the pixelation. But it doesn’t get rid of the noise and for some reason, recording off the Kona the video looks worse in general (kind of gray and a little fuzzy – this is when capturing uncompressed) than through the firewire (with which the picture looks good, there’s just the noise and pixelation…). Going through the firewire with the camera with similar settings – setting the camera to 24p and setting fcp to 24 or 23.98 – it still comes out pixelated.
For clarification, the pixelation is just around the edges of people or objects.
Doing an internet search I found two other questions about this problem (one on here, one on 2 pop) but neither were answered or followed up on.
Thanks in advance!
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Surely you aren’t judging the quality of this footage by the capture window…or the Viewer or Canvas? Because a computer monitor is the last place to judge the quality of your footage.
External monitor.
Shane
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