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avc intra workflow
i shot a test for the pannasonic hpx 300. the footage that was shot in dvcpro hd 720 24pn looks great, but the footage shot on avc-intra 100 1080 24pn looks horrible. it looks great in the camera but when i pull it up in the log and transfer its really grainy and my dvx 100 in sd looks better! i dont understand where all the quality is going? any ideas ? i was connecting the camera through the usb port. into my mac book pro. any suggestions? im also new to creative cow.
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Please tell me you aren’t judging this quality on your computer monitor…much less in the FCP Canvas or Viewer.
#2 Blurry Playback
Shane’s Stock Answer #2: Blurry playback
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL BROADCAST MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
The Canvas shows you what happens after the codec you are working with has been applied. The Viewer shows you the material in its native format. Once you drop the footage from the Viewer into the timeline, it inherits the attributes of the sequence. If it is a DV sequence, the footage will render out as DV.
1. Disable overlays on the Canvas.
2. Make sure you’ve rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline).
Video playback requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or broadcast monitor routed thru your camera or deck.
Shane
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I understand that I shouldn’t trust the computer moniter. But it’s a mac book pro and it should be and HD moniter. The image looks amazing on my moniter when I shoot on dvcprohd . But when I shoot the same footage on a avc intra codec it looks horrible.. And I’ve edited a commercial for butterfinger for a contest they just had. it was shot in 1080 p and I thought maybe it’s just my moniter. But it’s not because when I export the project it has no quality even after watching it on tv. The avc intra footage is transcoded to prores. Which everyone is talking about how great it looks. How come it doesn’t look good on my computer? And the thing is when I open the log and tranfer window , when the footage is dvcprohd the preview shows the footage and it looks awsome even before I transcod it or drop it in the timeline. When the footage is avc intra 100 the preview is really grainy and looks horrible compared the the other one…
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