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loading beta – brighness levels (possible duplicate post)
When i load beta tape (non-controllable device), it looks fine whilie digitizing, however when i play it back in FCP 4.5, itlooks all washed out. I’m able to fix by using gamma effect but don’t think this should be happening on digitizing. what am i doing wrong? thanks
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Double check your video waveform on ingest. Sounds like you may be bringing the video in hot and therefore are seeing it washed out. Hopefully you have color bars at the head of the tape to adjust to.
Good Luck
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Will check levels on digitizing again, but this has been happening lots of times… again, if it looks good on the monitor when i digitize, i would think it would look good on that same monitor when i play back the digitized footage….but will be more diligent on levels when digitizing… perhaps just load it in a tad lower level and that may compensate for the problem…. thanks for the info…mike
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Do you have black levels set correctly? How are you capturing the Beta video?
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I’m capturing beta from a ampex CVR-70 betacamSP deck sending the composite out signal to my JVC mini-dv deck then firewire from the JVC to my G4. I will redigitize and be more diligent on setting my levels to see if problem is an actual problem. I guess what perplexes me is even if my levels were not set properly, why should i see any difference between viewing during digitize versus playback… just thought maybe someone else had seen this before………but as i usually find in the end, the solution is go back to basics, “read the instructions” and practice proper editing techniques…. again, it’s not a debilitating problem and i’ll probably solve it by following my previous advice…..later..mike
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