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Quality loss when capturing?
Is it just me or do I get a quality loss when i capture footage with my XHA1 using Vegas? When i look at the footage, it just looks better on the lcd on my camerea!
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> Is it just me or do I get a quality loss when i capture footage with my XHA1 using Vegas?
It’s you… or rather your LCDs…
Vegas does not “capture” in the “analog” sense of the word. The Canon XH-A1 is HDV and as such, what we call “capture” is really a “file transfer” of the exact bits that are on the tape to the hard drive bit-for-bit totally lossless in the digital domain.
> When i look at the footage, it just looks better on the lcd on my camerea!
Is the LCD on your camera calibrated? Have you run color bars through it and adjusted it properly? Is the LCD on your PC properly calibrated and profiled? Have you used a hardware calibrator such as a Spyder3Pro or Huey to do this? If the answer to any of these questions is no… then that’s your answer. If your LCD’s are not calibrated then chances are they will not match.
~jr
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Capturing with firewire is digital data transfer which has no loss of quality. The quality is better if you capture directly from the camera live, via component without using a tape. As soon as you use tape or firewire the signal is now HDV, highly compressed with 4.2.0 color space. Hope this helps, Danny Hays
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