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What is the best capture setting for Sony HDV 1080i? please help!
Hi there,
I have a project that I have been working on for some time, it was shot with a Sony HDR-HC1 in HDV mode. (PAL)
I have been using the easy setting for HDV 1080i50. The images look ok but on close inspection there are some bad interlacing problems. Looking at the QuicktimeMovie files captured by FCP the interlacing is quite bad on moving objects and is especially noticeable if you pause it. This gets alot worse when compressed to Mpeg-2 and put onto DVD.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Liam
PS. I am also having a batch capture problem. most of the tapes have worked fine but a couple of the tapes continually give a message reading “unable to locate timecode”.
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>The images look ok but on close inspection there are some bad interlacing problems
Liam “on close inspection” where? Do you have a means to check the captured footage on an interlaced broadcast display? If not then you really can’t properly assess interlacing issues or indeed any qualitative issues on these clips. If you captured as HDV using firewire then what you see is what you shot … if there really is an issue with it then it is with the source rather than the capture (Sorry). You note that it gets worse when compressed for and viewed on a DVD … what steps are you currently employing to create these DVD’s? Might be something that is easily resolved with a small change in workflow.
>What is the best capture setting for Sony HDV 1080i?
Well the flavor of the moment is ProRes … and why not, its a superb codec. But realize that in the first instance transcoding your HDV to that codec won’t make the raw source clips better quality, it’ll just make the file sizes bigger. Also bear in mind that you’ll possibly need a beefier storage system to deal with the higher bandwidth requirements of working with the much higher data rate of those clips.
Basically, I think if you offer up a bit more info on your system specs, workflow, and delivery requirements then you might get some pretty spot on advice.
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Hi Liam, when you get the error “unable to locate timecode” locate the timecode manually on your deck and try batch capture again. If that doesn’t work turn off your handles when capturing. Hope this helps!
Oli
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