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DV cam to post work and edit – best settings?
Hi,
I recently purchased a DV cam (sony hdrfx7) and I’ve been trying to find the best settings to capture/interpret (premiere/AE) my videos at(standard def for now).
Basically my videos have this slightly pixelated look like at jpeg exported at lower-medium quality in Photoshop, which i’m guessing wouldnt be noticed if they were exported to DVD (right?). But if been used to doing post work in AE on really clean footage( most times stock) and its distracting not having the quality i’m used to.
I’ve never had to capture and interpret my own footage so i’m clueless.
Sorry for being such a Newbie.
Thanks
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1 Reply
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Welcome Kurt,
If you’re capturing DV through Premiere via FireWire, you should be using a DV codec.
However, it appears that your cam is HDV. So, you may need to upgrade Premiere to add HD support. I use PP 1.5, I’m unsure of HD support in newer versions. Check the documentation or Adobe’s site.I don’t think you would get acceptable results capturing HD footage to DV (if that’s even possible), as the frame size is different. If the video is interlaced, and scaled down during capture, it would look like crap.
Create a new project in Premiere and select a HD (or DV) preset that is appropriate for your region – NTSC or PAL. Than, choose a Standard or Widescreen format. The Frame Size in the project should match that of your footage.
If stills look bad in Photoshop than they’ll probably look bad on screen. However DV and HD are compressed and will always contain compression artifacts. But, correctly captured HD footage should look pretty darn good.
Deinterlacing or ‘filmifying’ in AE can help to improve the look of footage. But, let’s get the capture portion of your workflow nailed down first. 🙂
Vince
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