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XP VS Mac footage
I recently got myself a fancy new iMac. I’m using Premiere Pro CS3 on both OSX and on Windows XP using Bootcamp.
I’m finding that the raw video captured from my camera looks a lot better on the Windows side than it does the Mac side. The MOV files straight from the camera have a lot of visual noise whereas the AVI files captured in Windows are pretty clear.
I was going to upload one of each for comparison, but apparently I’m being moderated.
Any thoughts? Do I need a better Quicktime codec on the Mac side? Should I not capture to MOV files?
Thank you.
Ramon
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3 Replies
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You dont say what kind of camera you have but footage captured via firewire is simply data transfer with no changes made during capture. I would update your video card drivers on the MAC side as it is likely just a display issue.
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Your screen brightess may be much higher on the Mac revealing noise you didn’t see on the windows side.
Vince Becquiot
Director | EditorKaptis Studios
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If you are able to bring in all the footage (mac captured and pc captured) and put them into a Premiere Pro edit timeline I’m sure they will look the same. MOV files watched through Quicktime can look crappy. Its a QT setting that watched DV video with Draft settings by default. PC players like Windows Media Player don’t have this setting, so the videos from the PC on a PC would look fantastic in comparison. But when you use the clips to edit in PPro they should both look the same.
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