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Captured footage in Avid Xpress HD is one stop darker
I’ve searched the internet for a solution to this problem, but I can’t find one. When I capture my footage it loses a full stop of light. Yes, I know I can push the brightness in post, but it creates milky blacks and clipped highlights. I am also 99% certain it is not the monitor – I’m a professional photographer using Monaco. Plus, when I played the footage directly from my gl1 to two different tv’s the footage looks great. I have exported my xpress timeline to dvd and played it on these same tv’s and the footage is now a full stop darker just like when I view the captured footage on my computer monitor. Besides monitor issues, what else could be causing it? I have read something about IRE levels (beyond my knowledge) is there some way these need to be changed? Thanks for your time.
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Listen, if IRE is beyond your knowledge, then you are going to have to make it your knowledge. We do not live in an AGC world. Go to Tektronix or Videotek’s website and look for educational material on signal levels and scopes. This kind of documentation exists. You need to know this stuff to be able to understand problems like this.
I can only speculate that your footage is coming in through the Mojo from analog. You probably need to turn on “NTSC has setup” in the General settings. But if you are dealing with DV, this needs to be off. And to understand why and what this means, you need to learn all about IRE.
Another thing – how do you know your monitor is set right? Presets usually are wrong. And how do you know your output is right? or dor that matter, your input? I would at least set input to preset first if you don’t know how to adjust it.
When you export to DVD, there are more complications with levels. There is no setup on a DVD and it may well look darker if your source was analog.
I know I am not specifically answering your questions but I don’t know enough details. But I can’t emphasize enough that you need to learn about video levels. It can be troubling at times for even those who understand it.
Dennis
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Also see the post below about Adobe Encore. Follow that workflow to get to your DVD app. The pixelation you described is likely caused by the quicktime reference because of mixed resolutions in your sequence.
Dennis
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