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Capturing HDV in Vegas Pro 8a
I’ve noticed quite a difference in the imagery when capturing HDV. During the capture the image looks totally clean and sharp as HDV should be. After capturing the clip, placing it on the timeline and playing it back, there is a noticeable drop in image quality. I’m not talking about the preview in the production monitor, which would be poorer being an SD monitor, I’m talking about the windows within Vegas…ie capture window vs preview window after the capture.
Is there a reason this is happening that I’m not aware of?Thank you
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Are your project properties set correctly?
Is your preview window set to Best/Full? -
Yes, all project settings are for HDV and the preview is set at best-full. The footage was shot in dim surroundings so I was surprised to see the footage in the capture window look so clean. Upon playback in the preview window you can clearly see grain in the darker areas which wasn’t apparent in the capture window. I didn’t know if the capturing process compressed the footage further or did some kind of conversion resulting in changing the quality of the image.
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Capturing is a straight-forward transfer of the information on the tape into the computer. Therefore nothing gets changed during this process.
My suspicion is that, since it’s so small, the preview window wasn’t showing you how grainy the fotage really was.
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