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Quality Loss HDV-SD
I work for a television show. We currently shoot video on Sony HVR-V1U HDV cameras, however we are still broadcasting in Standard Definition. I do understand, obviously that there will be quality loss, but the footage almost seems blurred when we view it after it has been captured in.
Could this be how we are capturing it in? Is there a better setting to use?
We capture from the Sony HVRM15AU HDV VTR deck to FCP 6.0.4 and use the input setting at DV NTSC 48kHz Anamorphic.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing such a big downgrade in quality?
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We have the Sony M15U HDV deck as well, we use the Kona 3 do to the downconversion from HD to SD and it looks perfectly clean here. But we capture at 8bit uncompressed SD instead of DV.
We’ve never tried to the downconvert in the machine, but it should work pretty good.
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We capture and edit in HDV then use the Kona3 to down convert to D-Beta on the fly. Saves us a lot of time rendering and we find it gives us better results. Our situation may be different as we frame our shots 4:3 in a 16:9 space so we just have to edge crop on our outputs.
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We also use the same Sony HDV cameras…
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Thanks for the info. I will definitely look into this.
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One more tip. Kelly…
Try capturing in DV50 or ProRes422 for much much better quality images. If you have the drive space, Use ProRes422. The quality is outstanding compared to DV (which is almost the equivalent of VHS in my book).
When you try these codecs, you’ll see that your video is so much cleaner than regular DV.
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Interesting. Will try that myself…
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