canon xlh1 awful recording – how can I fix it?

[Brian Louis]

A HDR-HC5 is a Sony camcorder, the footage from the canon looks like the cam wasn’t setup correctly, It appears the white balance is not correct and focus may be off

There are links to adobeTV on this tutorial page for correcting color, I would do that first before anything.
https://premierepro.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Tutorials

[Todd Terry]

Yep… obviously the Canon was set up incredibly badly. I wouldn’t blame the camera… the H1 is a fantastic camera, but you have to know how to use it and tweak its 23 different adjustible parameteters to paint it correctly (and the factory defaults are very poor).

This is all a moot point though, since you need to know how to do those things before you shoot… and that has already happened so it is what it is and you’ll have to deal with it.

From what I see, the color/saturation/contrast could be dealt with pretty easily with most any flavor of color correction. I’d guess you could get a relatively good match to the other footage fairly easily just with basic color correction. The soft focus though, unfortunately you are stuck with that.

T2

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[Brian Louis]

[Todd Terry] “The soft focus though, unfortunately you are stuck with that.”
One reason I was recommending color correction first is sometimes just having the proper color tends to make the video appear crisper, if further attention is necessary sometime a tad of sharpening can help but has to be done very carefully as not to over do it.