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working with HV10’s footage
Hi, all.
After a short adventure at work, I thought I’d convey an apparent problem/workaround for working with Quicktime movies created with the Canon HV10 HDV camera. A caveat: I haven’t done any of this on a Windows box yet, and my experiments perhaps weren’t as thorough as I would usually like them to be, but you’ll see that they are telling. I’ll try to make this concise.
-shot footage with Canon HV10 (not by me)
-footage was imported with (not by me, probably using FCP)
[incidentally I get the same results on my machine using IMovieHD ‘highest quality’ export]
-QTs brought into AE 6.5 have incorrect aspect ratio (1.33:1) — trivial fix in AE interpolation settings to square pixel
-here’s where the fun starts. Inspecting one of these movies in Quicktime shows a very sharp image. Double-clicking on imported movie in AE project window shows same — not surprisingly; this is quicktime. Movie is interpreted as 1920×1080 (1080i, right? Uh — not really … ).
-now drop this onto comp icon to make a comp. Open comp. Inspect image. Yucky badness. Edges look horrible, as if some sort of errant field removal has been done (or worse), but fields are in default state. Nothing can be done in AE to alleviate this.
[incidentally, similar, possibly better, but still not superior results in AE7]
-Open movie in Quicktime. Do a command-j to reveal video track properties. “Visual Settings”: 1888×1062 pixels.
-Using Quicktime Pro, Export as file sequence (targas, in my case).
-import into AE (adjust fps interpolation if necessary). Image comes in as 1888×1062, and looks perfect.So, until something better comes along, my workflow will have to include exporting HV10 QTs as file sequences and treating those seqs as the visual source material.
I haven’t found a lot of information about this stuff. But I hope this saves some HV10 some head-scratching, at least.
-cg
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[crgreen] “But I hope this saves some HV10 some head-scratching, at least.”
UH … I hope this saves some HV10 OWNERS some head-scratching, that is …
-cg
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