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film quality is awful
I went to the inauguration on the 20th and brought my panasonic pv-gs320 camcorder with me to film it. I just got around to editing today, but when i uploaded the video, it came out with awful quality. I switched the preview screen to best (auto) which made it better, but still sub standard.
Is this a setting, or could the cold do this to the recording (it was around 17 degrees + windchill)?
I’m also editing on another computer than usual
(this ones older, the other one had a hardrive failure). Could this do something?oh, almost forgot, the image looks kind of like its full of horizontal lines. im not sure if thats the right description, but its the best i can do.
something else that i just noticed, is that when i capture, the capture screen shows a picture with good quality, its only when i put it into the actual vegas project that it deteriorates.
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Tom, if you hook the camcorder up to your TV, does it play back OK?
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That camera shoots miniDV. If you captured via firewire the AVI file on your PC is an exact duplicate of the data on the tape, byte-for-byte. I doubt you have lost any quality.
Mike has a good idea. Preview it on a TV right from the camera to be sure but you said that the capture looked Ok so I assume the TV will too.
The horizontal lines are interlacing. This is because TV’s are interlaced while computer screens are not. This is nothing to worry about and won’t show up on a TV.
If you plan to watch this footage on a PC then you will want to do your final render to progressive mode so that the footage gets deinterlaced. Also the Vegas secondary monitor preview has an option to deinterlace so that the full screen preview doesn’t have these lines. If you final output is to DVD then don’t worry about deinterlacing.
~jr
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yeah, sorry about that. I test rendered part of it, and it came out fine.
I dont know why i never noticed this in any of my other projects.
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