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  HD Extreme & Z1U – captured footage is soft

  Posted by James_2008 on November 13, 2007 at 5:29 am

  OK, I’ve had this card for almost a year now and I have tried a million things and nothing has worked.

  System Specs:
  Windows XP 64bit
  HD Extreme
  Decklink V6.6
  Z1U attached through component cables to the HD Extreme

  The entire reason for this setup was to capture a live video production directly to hard drive in an uncompressed format.

  However, I always record a tape in HDV just in case something happens. Now, after capturing, I will load the BM .avi file into Vegas and if I load the exact same footage off the HDV tape and compare the two, the HDV tape is much sharper than the BM footage!

  I just looked through the archives here and I have seen many posts about soft or fuzzy footage when capturing using the component IN on the BM card. So, what gives?

  Is there a firware update or some kind of special setting I should use when capturing via compenent cables to get the same sharpness and resolution that is being output?

  I also tried taking my HDV tape, loading it into the camera and attaching my component cables to my TV. The image is sharp as a tack. I then plug the cables back into the BM card and capture the exact same video feed and the resulting file is soft. So I know it isn’t the camera or the footage.

  Any help is greatly appreciated because at this point I feel like I wasted $1000.

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