David J
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You may find it easier to see the detail if you zoom in to the area concerned. Drawing a marquee with the zoom tool is one way of doing this.
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Canopus ProCoder is available from Canopus. Maybe you should look at MPEG2 from Premiere for DVDs before investing in more software.
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In my experience, it is hard to beat the quality you get from Mastering Quality encoding in Canopus ProCoder for tricky footage that generates artifacts in other encoders.
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What you see is a rather extreme example of the visual effect of interlacing on a still image.
The two fields of an interlaced image are half a frame interval apart, so every other line is part of the alternate field. If there is horizontal movement, you get a ‘combing’ visual effect as your image shows.
You have two choices to ‘fix’ this.
1. Select the ‘deinterlace’ option in the still image export settings within Premiere.
or 2. Use an image editor like PhotoShop and apply the deinterlace effect there instead.
Deinterlacing takes one of the two field images and duplicates the lines to fill the gaps left by removing the other interlaced field. Depending on your image software, you may have options to average, duplicate, take odd/even field.
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I tried this a long time ago as a test and as far as I recall it worked OK. Never used it since, though.
The Help file explains the required fields for importing a batch list. I seem to remember that I exported a simple clip example and opened that in Excel to help understand the process.
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Timecode is displayed in the clip window as a clip is played.
If you want to superimpose timecode on a clip, then the best way is to use DVdate from https://dve.teletex.ru/en/dvrecdate.shtml. Try before buy shows how it works.
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Your description certainly suggests that there is a flag set somewhere in the data transfer that indicates mono rather than stereo sound. Where that is happening is anyone’s guess from the information available, but the PC-100 is certainly a suspect. Well worth trying an alternate player if you can – if only to eliminate the PC-100 from the suspects list.
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Further to Blast 1’s comment. Just in case…
There is a big difference between audio only on one track of a stereo pair and mono. Sony domestic cameras are very variable on whether both stereo tracks are filled using a mono mic. Safest to use a splitter between mono mic and camera to put the mono input onto both stereo tracks.
If you have a single-side recording in Premiere, use Fill Left/Fill Right to generate twin track from the one side.
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Have you tried capture using Scenalyzer Live (www.scenalyzer.com)? This will remove any doubt about Premiere being the culprit. You will also be able to monitor the sound ‘live’ during replay and/or capture using the VU meters to see if the stereo signal is affected.
Try before buy with watermark will allow you to test the audio issue.
You might then want to use Scenalyzer for all your capturing like so many others do.
Don’t bother with version 2. The latest v4 beta is excellent.
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As far as I am aware, there is no facility in the PC100 to go to mono sound. I therefore suspect either an issue with the replay hardware (ie the camera) or the FireWire cable or the IEE1394 port/diver.
As a starter, if this happened to me, I would try another player and another cable to see if that made any difference.