Highest Quality Output

[Chris Poisson]

We need to know how your show was shot and in what format you edited in.

Have a wonderful day.

[Arnie Schlissel]

You know, this could really be anything, starting with how the video was shot and ending with how it’s finished and layed off to tape. It’s most likely a combination of small things that add up.

Was the video shot properly? Did the production crew use a waveform and vectorscope on set to check the video signal? A properly calibrated production monitor? Did they at least use a light meter?

Were you monitoring on a properly calibrated production monitor while you were editing? If so, you should have caught the quality problems early.

What format was the video shot in? What format was it cut in, and how was it captured into FCP?

How was it finished? Did the online editor do any color correction? How did it get to Beta?

Arnie
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[Ernie Santella]

And it’s tough to compare your show to the previous/post shows you saw. What was the network? Were they in HD (Downconverted to cable or sat)? Those shows may have been posted in HD, compared to your full analog BetaSP workflow.

[Ed Dooley]

It needs to go to Beta-SP, but you’re talking about it going to a GV HD700? Which is it going to? I hope it’s not the HD700 then to Beta.
Ed

[Tommy Martiniere] “I am editing my television show for the first time and I noticed when it aired tonight that the quality was less than the show before and after mine. I am using FC Studio, Mac Pro Quad Core with 8 gig of ram. The show has to be put on Beta SP and I have tried some different conversions to get the best quality but I am not getting what I want. I have looked through the threads, but have not found exactly what I am looking for. Should I be using a AJA card or something to output it to my Sony GV HD700 Deck? Thanks in advance. I am in desperate need of making this show TOP NOTCH.”

[Tommy Martiniere]

Sorry. The show is shot in HD with Canon XH A1’s mostly. It is all captured and edited in HD. I can’t use light meters because it is a hunting and fishing show and is hard to do that in the field. We do white balance the cameras very often. All of the shows are required to use the BetaSP tapes. I capture it on a miniDV and then have another production house put it on Beta for me. I hope this helps.
Thanks
Tommy

[Tommy Martiniere]

To start… I captured and edited in HD. We use Canon XH A1’s mostly. I am using FC Studio 2. I have been exporting it mostly to a .mov file and getting another company to put it on BetaSP. As far as the waveform and vectorscope and light meter. No. It is a hunting and fishing show, so everything is in the field and we usually have no production crew. It is usually just the cameraman and the Hunter/Fisherman. I am monitoring on a calibrated monitor and if I output it to a DVD the quality is great, so I have narrowed it down to something when I am converting it and taking it to the BetaSP. It was captured into FC by a Sony GV-HD700. I color corrected everything. I know it’s not the footage, it all looks great when I play it on the monitor or DVD. I am just converting it somehow wrong to get the quality.
Thanks for the help.
Tommy

[Tommy Martiniere]

The network is Pursuit. Which is a hunting and fishing network. The network is run by Crawford Communications out of Atlanta, which requires us to use BetaSP for our tapes. Thanks
Tommy

[Matthew Rogers]

I’m respond here to what you posted in a later post.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1042837#1042837
Did that make an sense?

[Tommy Martiniere] “I have been outputing to my Sony GV HD700 to mini dv and then letting another company go from MiniDV to BetaSP.”

You’re taking a big hit in quality when you go to Mini DV before Beta SP. Outputting direct to Beta SP or even HDV then to Beta SP would help keep quality.

-Matt

Matthew Rogers
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