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Quality Issue when Importing DV-Pal Progrssive
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Here it is
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You have the pixel aspect ratio correction turned on. This will show you the image in the correct aspect ratio but it makes it look rough.
PAL footage uses non-square pixels. When viewed on a TV each pixel is wider than it is tall. If you view those pixels on a computer monitor, which uses square pixels, you image will look slightly squashed width ways. This is ok becasue the pixels haven’t actually changed, just how they are being displayed. The pixel aspect ratio correction feature in AE and Photoshop stretches the image back out to simulate how it will look on a TV, but it does a rough job of it.
I would never work with it switched on, just toggle it on to check things then switch it off again. To switch it off click the icon that has the square with the double ended arrow above (to the right of the drop down that says ‘1 view’).
This will show you the raw pixels.
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Thanx for the advice. I did that also, but it just got a bit better. Still looked much worse than in the Canvas in FCP. Why FCP and QT shows the image in such higher quality than AE? I am really surprised about that.
Sascha
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HI Dave,
thanx for all the advice. Guess that is how AE shows it then, just surprised about that FCP shows it so much better.
For the Green Screen lighting: We had amazing lights on the set. The GS is something I came up with the last second – so we had just 10min to build it and the lights there were lousy. The result with Keylight is pretty decent though. I will show you the final clip
For the capturing – Yes I use most of the tape and log and capturing each clip seperatly is something I used to do.
I figured out that I work much faster, loading the whole tape (also better for the DV Deck – not always play and stop) and then I create Sub-Clips. At the end I trim the footage with the Media Manager to the Actual footage I need – for me goes a lot faster than the other way – and I tried both.Greetz,
Sascha
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