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DVCPro50 HELP
I’ve seen a lot of similar posts to this, but none of them seem to answer my question…
I’m shooting on P2 with a Panasonic camera, model number AG-HPX500, with a format of DVCPro50 30i. I import the files directly off the camera and onto the computer via firewire. I am using CS3.
When I import the files into Premiere, they look great. My project settings are P2 DVCPRO50 NTSC. They are .mxf files, and the sound is imported along with them.
However, when I try to open them in After Effects, they look terrible. You can see scanlines and the footage is grainy. Even if I go into premiere and render out the footage as an avi, it still looks like hell in AE. I just use the standard DV preset because i don’t see an applicable setting. I see DVCPRO HD, but the frame size is far too large… I’ve tried using a custom setting with DVCPRO HD and just adjusting the frame size, but no dice. Is there a project setting in AE that will work with this format???? I’m stumped… please help!!
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I tried the interpret footage option… it was already set to lower field first. Definetly no gain switch or low light… the footage looks fantastic in premiere, so it’s gotta be something to do with the settings in After Effects. I’ve seen a few sites say that you can transcode the .mxf files to quicktime to work around it, but im not sure if that feasable.
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Woaaah… changed the fields to “off” and it fixed it. Never mind. Thanks!!!
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Graininess was a bad choice of words on my part… it was less grainy and more just noisy… which was a by-product of the fielding and the movement on the screen. Once the fielding was fixed, the image came into better clarity. No grain.
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