Red skews give me pixels/aliasing

[Jay Gladwell]

How–in what format–will this final project be delivered?

[Stefano Sonntag]

It’s for a website and will be converted down to 592*333 @ 800kbits.

Nobody will see these errors, of course. But on top of that I’m archiving all the vids to 1280*720p25 in 10Mbits (h264).

To be honest, it’s not really much of a problem to me, as no one will ever notice. It just started to bug me, because I couldn’t quite figure out what’s the problem behind it. Maybe it’s the camera itself and EVERY single one has the same problem?!?!?

Cheers, Stefan Sonnabend.

[Michael Palmer]

What is the true color of the smock this person has on?
I’m guessing it should be black.

Was there Tungsten lighting used?

What white balance was used in the PP?

Good Luck
Michael Palmer

[Jay Gladwell]

I doubt the smock was black. It shows as maroon on my monitor. Haven’t seen black as maroon with the far red issue.

[Jordan Dwyer]

I see you say that it was recorded in progressive mode, but are you editing in progressive mode or in interlased mode?

My Website: https://www.newagetv.co.za
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrNewAgeTv

3D Animation: Light Wave 3D
My Camera: Sony EX1
Web Design: Flash CS4
Editing: Liquid Edition

[Stefano Sonntag]

Hey guys,

here’s my PP-settings:

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Matrix: on
Select: hisat
Level: +25
Phase 0
R-G (and all the others, too) 0

Color Correction: off

White: off

Detail: on
(everthiny in “detail” is set to 0)

skintone: on
Level: 0
Area Indictation: off
sat: 0
phase: 130
width: 40

knee: disabled (???)

Gamma:
Level: 0
Select: CINE1

Black: 0

Black Gamma: -2

Low Key Sat: 0
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I have to admit, I’m not too much into that settings stuff 🙁 When we got the camera I looked up some settings Philip Bloom suggested and defined them while checking out some other profiles I found on dvinfo.net until I found my settings suitable.

I shot the footage with 3300K, if I remember correctly. The lights we used were a couple of those Mettle Quarzlight 1000W with a softbox, which was similar to this one here: https://bilder.csn-24.biz/bild.php?ja=102870

The project I’m working in is a progressive one, of course.

—— HAHA ——

While I was writing this reply, I figured it was just Adobe Premiere, which shows the aliasing. I feel a bit embarassed now, I didn’t think about that earlier 🙁

I’m gonna render some of that footage uncompressed in 1080p to find out if these issues are just visible inside of Premiere or afterwards in an external player as well.

Cheers, and thanks for the help!

[Stefano Sonntag]

Well,

I rendered it in both uncompressed .MOV and (close to) uncompressed (>30 MBits) .M2V to see if the problem remains. And it does, unfortunately.

I even imported some HDV footage (1440x1080i) shot with a crappy mini dv cam and got the same result: There are no jags on the skews in the raw footage when I watch it with both Quicktime and VLC, but as soon as I imported the file to Premiere there is this ugly aliasing.

At first I had the Premiere project preset for XDCAM but that doesn’t really matter much, I guess. Because I tried it without any preset as well, and it gave me the same result.

Currently I’m running Premiere 4.1, but I’m gonna update it to 4.2 now, to see if that problem remains. Oh, I’m on Mac OSX 10.5.8.

EDIT: Same problem with 4.2

[Bob Mark]

I don’t have an answer for you, but I’m seeing aliasing on fine lines especially in high contrast areas with an EX1. Maybe lowering detail will improve things.

Bob