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DV Capture: Soft Edges
Hi everyone, long time reader, first time posting.
I’m having this peculiar issue with capturing footage from a DV Deck in FCP. I was working with some video processes in an analog system that was being recorded with a Sony GD/HV700 deck *SD Capture*. When I play the tape back on the deck into a monitor via component or S-video, the footage looks great, the edges are sharp and the colors are accurate.
The problem occurs once I try to capture the footage into FCP via firewire. The footage gets softer edges and the color is different *although I understand that this is fixable, the edges are the issue*. Although I know the tape tape has no codec, the footage upon capture looks like someone was transcoding prores 422 to dv-ntsc.
I tried the normal DV-NTSC capture preset with Firewire NTSC device preset, tried some custom settings, tried 3 different firewire cables, tried 3 different generations of apple computers with different hard drive speeds, and nothing seems to change.
So my question is this: How do I capture the footage as I see it on the component output? It is literally night and day. Thanks ahead of time!
FCP v7.0.3, Laptop: OSX 10.6.5, 2.33 core duo, 2gb, 256mb ati radeon, 5400rpm hard drive Mac Pro: OSX 10.6.4, 2.8 ghz quad xeon, 3gb ram, 1024mb ati radeon HD 5770, 7200 rpm hard drive
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How are you monitoring Jason? Capturing DV via firewire is completely digital, capturing nothing but 1s and 0s, so I suspect that what you’re seeing is from viewing in the FCP canvas rather than on a real video monitor.
Set your canvas viewing size to exactly 100% for starters, but also know that the canvas does not represent a completely true representation of video like a TV or broadcast monitor.
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David,
Thanks for the reply, I figured out my problem, I was sending progressive footage out into the analog system through an old hardware colorizer, not remembering that the footage would be converted to an interlaced format, so what I was viewing on the deck was interlaced, which looks different when viewed 100% on a progressive display. Same thing was happening with my flicker footage *flickering between odd and even fields*, the progressive display was making it turn to mush.Silly mistake on my part, thanks anyways!
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