captured image innacurate?

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[melissa] “there is no way I can effect the video or audio input levels when I’m capturing digitally”

CONFIRMED!

[Shane Ross]

Where is he viewing this footage? On the computer monitor, or a professional calibrated NTSC monitor connected to your system?

Try this…connect the deck (while it is connected to your computer) to a NTSC monitor or TV then play the tape. Then play the exact same captured footage and see if it looks different.

It won’t.

[Alexander Serpico]

Sounds like he or his camera man screwed up… as long as the director knows where to place the blame 🙂
But of course you can easily correct the color temp anyway later…

[Melissa]

so far the blame is on me..ugh.
is there any way that the color temp could have been affected other than with a filter?
(probably not, huh?)

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[melissa] “so far the blame is on me..ugh.
is there any way that the color temp could have been affected other than with a filter?
(probably not, huh?) “

Nope, and any filter would have to be applied AFTER the import.

Only people with an ignorance of digital production could assume color could be affected by a direct FireWire transfer.
Its simply a “file of numbers” that gets transfered from the magnetic DV Tape to the magnetic Hard Disk… nothing gets changed at all.

There IS only one condition where you SHOULD feel bad about yourself…
if you choose to ACCEPT any blame whatsoever concerning this issue.

If there continues to be any “fingers pointed” toward you in this regard, I would excuse myself and extricate myself from this project entirely.

[Melissa]

thanks for all your help…