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Are you using the video presets in Photoshop? If you don’t watch it you can change the pixel aspect ratios when importing and exporting.
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Thats dynamic as in very active, not as a drive type, the reason for a Fat32 partition is because if you have a NTSF paging partition, its possible for the system to try to index it even if indexing is turned off, where the system can’t index a fat32partition, indexing slows responce times.
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Usually what I do when I intergrate a video system is on the System drive create two partitions, one NTFS for the system, one 4gig fat32 for paging, set min/max to what windows allows, and ignore it from then on,
one thing is I don’t want a paging file on dynamic video file/scratch/preview disks. -
[MrParlay] “D: 1 IDE 80gb drive dedicated page file (I have 2gb of RAM and want to set page file to min/max 4gb) “
I use 2gig of memory and what I do for a Page File is to make a 4gig FAT32 partition on the system drive, never had a problem, then you don’t have waste a drive. -
Pair of SATA drives raided for video source files, a ATA133 Primary Master IDE for a system drive and a ATA133 Secondary Master IDE for Misc files, Conformed audio, Scratch Disks and Preview files.
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Have you tried contacting Canopus tech support and working with them on your problem? They sometimes have more info on newer computer system configuration/combinations than is available on forums.
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[Elliot Smith] “Could it be my firewire card?”
No, firewire card is strictly a high speed serial port and does not affect the data per’se.
[Elliot Smith] “I’m beginning to wonder if it was the camera itself, it was a sony trv-130 (far from high end). “
Actually that series of D8 is a fairly decent camcorder, beats a hi8/8mm, one thing it has is a large imaging chip which lends to low light sensitivity(less noise if set properly) better than some newer model consumer DV camcorders, it has drawbacks though as it has limited manual controls, but it does have a manual exposure and it can be used to tone down highlight problems like you are seeing, its better to slightly underexpose than overexpose, underexposed video can be lightened with minimum loss of detail, overexposure looses detail thats not recoverable, also if possible avoid direct reflection of shiny objects like foreheads, bald heads, it pays to scope out the area and note lighting and possible problems in advance, also play with the cam in various situations to get a feel of what you may need to do it eliminate problems while live shooting, also an item like a Polarizing filter can help a bunch in situations like that, one for a 37mm filter should be very reasonable.
With your current problem you could try to futz with the adjustments like brightness/contrast, blurs etc. available in AP65 to see if you can clean it up a bit. -
[Elliot Smith] “I’m trying to improve quality since I saw “digitation” in the highlights of the bride’s forehead at the last wedding I shot on which I used DV to capture. “
DV capture is basically transfering DV thats on tape to a computer file with no loss or change, if you captured DV to uncompressedQT you would have uncompressed DV with higher resolution artifacts as any artifacts you are seeing are already on tape.
Without knowing what causing your pixelation, its hard to recommend any cure, are you viewing the artifacts you are seeing on a computer monitor or a external video monitor? are they in areas of high motion or overexposure?
are you doing any magnifaction to see them?