[Danny Winn]

Bill, I mean no disrespect and I do mean that, but do you even know what Magic Lantern does? It doesnt sound like you do because you mention that the AGC is always on which it is NOT with the Magic Lantern because this Firmware disables the AGC.

ML also added audio meters and turns the 5D Av jack into a headphone jack in addition to many non audio related features. Did you know any of this? Again, no disrespect but it just sounds like you answered this thread without knowing what was being asked.

A JuiceLinked unit in conjunction with ML drops the Audio input noise seemingly to 0.

Magic Lantern is a free 3rd party Firmware for the 5D not a Canon written product.

We all know that there are several ways of getting “Lucas” quality sound out there, but the question here is, does anyone out there have a lot of experince with both the options mentioned above and how do they perform?

[Danny Winn]

AVI files are uncompressed and WMV files are compressed, that’s why there is such a difference in file size.

CS3 should be capturing in AVI, so your real problem is to find out why your CS3 is not capturing the avi.

Remember any compressed file type will not be as high of quality as uncompressed.

[Danny Winn]

Thank you everybody for the response, I was able to get a decent key (although no perfect) with some of your suggestions. In the end though crappy footage creates more crappy footage.

I didn’t shoot it, I just got stuck with it;)

Thanks all!

[Danny Winn]

I would use an Mpeg2 before the H264. Your file size will be smaller with the H264 but unless you crank up all the other settings you will have the quality loss that you explained.

Try an Mpeg2, you can type in those pixel dimentons if they are not already in a preset, and remember 30 FPS is actually 29.97 on export.

I never shoot with those dimentions but if it is a widescreen frame size then you will of course have to click the widescreen option.

I also always capture and export as “progressive” you might try one version of that as well.

How long is this video? plus if it’s going onto a dvd you might as well just export it as standard definition settings.

If it’s really short in length then I would export as an AVI with no real quality loss.

[Danny Winn]

Darn thats my weak spot, I’ve never had to convert any files like that. Can you get ahold of the original tapes and just capture them on premire pro?

Maybe somebody can recommend a good converter or maybe just search online.

Sorry I can’t help on that one.

[Danny Winn]

Yeah definitly convert the file to MPEG2, then set your quality to “Draft”, it will still look very clear since it is HD footage.

I have a very suped up computer but even mine does not play HD AVI files well. Try not to make any HD file too long either if possible I usually capture in 5 minute incriments.

Let me know how it goes;)

[Danny Winn]

One thing you can try is to make sure that your quality playback setting is set to “Draft Quality” instead of “Highest Quality”, your system should be able to run HD footage as long as that footage is compressed like an MPEG2.

I’m sure you already know this but I will say it anyway, never try running uncompressed HD footage like an AVI for example, it’s nearly impossible to run.

Try Draft Quality and see if that makes any difference.

Let us know.

[Danny Winn]

Hey Harvy, need a little more info,

What type of file format is this file? and did you capture it yourself with Premiere Pro or was the file given to you by said woman?

Also, does this file play properly in any other media player like Windows Media Player?

Let me know and we’ll go from there;)

[Danny Winn]

I would NOT export HD footage uncompressed as any AVI, the file will be too large and probably not play well at all.

What I would do is select MPEG2 and the preset “HDTV 1080-30fps” (I use 30 for my frame rate but you’ll have to select whatever frame rate you use”.

MPEG2’s look awesome, don’t be afraid of losing quality.

Here’s an example of these export settings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0jIMjdqS2c

[Danny Winn]

What you should have done is only capture the video, You can select to capture just video and not audio, but since you didn’t do that your only option is to mute your speakers and play the real audio seperatly.