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HDV quality loss with outdoor shot
Hey there, thanks you for reading this post. I just shot some outdoor footage in HDV. May footage came out anything like HDV. The ND filter was set to 4 which must have caused the massive loss in quality. Any how i been up for hours trying to find away to fix or at this point even hide this. The project is for a music video. So i do have “artistic” libertys with the look. Any advice or guidance would be most appreciated.
Thanks.
Macus
Marcus Leite
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I don’t think it was the ND filter so much as the f stop. There’s a diffraction error that can occur at maximum iris closure that actaully reduces quality from a pinhole effect. That’s why movies are shot f/5.6 and have a shallow depth of field. That’s where the style came from!
Did it make everything look fuzzy? You make it sound like only parts of it look bad. You can try sharpen, antialias with a resizer instant hd, enhance color contrast, or just go all out for fill effects and shadows. If they want crispy clean, its a reshoot.
p.s. if you want, you could try dragging footage into my AE project and see if you like the color enhancement.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/954145
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I have looked at instant HD and i don’t see how i can take my 1440×1080 footage and remove all the grain and fuzz with it since its already supposed to be HD. If such a thing is possible or any other method i would be most thankful. The location was such a mountain to obtain; a reshoot is out of the question.
Also i was just looking at my footage and decided to take some test footage and add it into the sequence and it appears to be just as bad. but i remember that footage looking crystal clear. I checked my time line setting in Final Cut pro and the quality for preview was at 100%. I am having a really hard time trouble shooting this.
Any insight would be most appreciated.
Marcus
Marcus Leite
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to remove grain go to effect- noise and grain-remove grain,
fiddle with the settings until they are satifactory, and instant hd can tweak sharpens, antialias enhancements that AE can’t do alone, even thought its only a resizer. Fuzzy’s opposite is sharpen. If anyone else has any ideas how to fix fuzzy footage. Although I have found a weird way using reelsmart motion blur at -2(negative 2). It re-creates in an intelligent way that looks like crosshatching.
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