[Doug Anderson]

Thanks for your input, Dave. I can believe that my problem is simply that DV isn’t cut out for the kinds of images I’m shooting. I’ll try to stick to bedouins from now on…

FYI, before I received your response I had tried posting this troubleshooting query in a new thread, so if you want to add anything to the conversation that’s going on there, feel free!

Thanks much.

Doug

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[Doug Anderson]

Thank you so much for responding, guys.

Those original screenshots were taken from a QT file exported from Final Cut.

I just added a couple of screenshots to my picasa album, taken from the original .mov file in my Capture Scratch folder, as shown when opened in QuickTime. I did make sure that the “high quality” box was checked in Show Movie Properties > Visual Settings.

By the way, why is is that Quicktime displays that file as 853×480 instead of 720×480? Is that part of my problem?

The video actually looks great on my broadcast monitor, played directly from the tape. (I actually don’t believe I am set up to play from my computer files to the monitor–but maybe I should do that.) There is no trace of halo at high-contrast boundaries, and those multi-pixel-wide vertical stripes are nonexistent. I tried fiddling with the knobs on my broadcast monitor to get some blurry edges, but to no avail.

For comparison, I’ve added a couple “bootleg-style” screenshots, taken with a digital camera off my broadcast monitor. Obviously the color is horrible, but at least you see there’s no trace of those vertical lines that are so apparent along the folds in the red shroud. There’s also none of the pixelly blur around the edge of his face/fingers in the “arm extended” shot.

I had originally tried posting this troubleshooting question in another thread, where Dave LaRonde’s take was just that my images were too high-contrast, high-saturation, and with too high-frequency colors to look good on DV video. I can believe that. I can also believe Noah’s suggestion that you don’t know how it “really” looks until it’s on a CRT monitor, but if I’m going to export a DVD to be played on someone’s LCD computer display, it would be great to have that look good as well.

Doug

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https://www.pizzicatopictures.com/

[Doug Anderson]

I’d like to pick up this thread where it left off, because I am experiencing a pixelation problem that matches Jamie M’s description.

I was shooting a play on the DVX100B in 24P mode, and for capture and export to QT settings I tried to follow Noah K’s instructions as outlined in his DVD on the subject.

I’d appreciate if you could take a look at these four screenshots and tell me if there is anything to be done. You may want to view them in slideshow mode for better resolution. In the last shot with the red shroud, the effect is particularly evident. Is it just that this camera doesn’t deal well with high-contrast situations, or is there a setting I need to change?

Thanks in advance for any help!