Eric Clinch
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I’ve been researching more into the ‘should OIS be on or off on a tripod’ question.
Most of the comments around the net relate to still camera shooting where the need for stabilisation is different to video. The need with stills is to freeze any camera movement at the instance the shutter ‘fires’. With video, shots are continuously being taken and our need is to keep the subject continuously steady in the frame. Both my current Canon and previous Panasonic tape camera recommended switching OIS off when using a tripod. But my own tests have given no image difference between On and Off. Most of my tripod work is closeups but I’ve just carefully studied a recent video I made of local scenes using a tripod for many of the shots. Looking at the image edge on my TV for signs of movement I detect none other then when my tripod was clearly being buffeted by wind. Had I had OIS off I expect the movement caused by wind may have been worse. So I’m keeping mine on.
This doesn’t help the OP. I wonder whether the jumps are caused by tripod movement resulting from vibration. Mention is made of wooden floors and bass frequencies. Possibly there may have been jumps whether OIS was on or off. Only comparison tests under similar circumstances will show which was better – OIS on or off.
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I’ve a Canon HFG10 and I never turn stabilisation off and I haven’t experienced any problems. On a windy day on full telephoto my medium weight tripod is far from steady and the image can be seen to be juddering with the wind. OIS helps reduce that.
The only problem I’ve had with OIS is the sometimes darkening of corners when hand holding in breezy conditions as the OIS tries to keep the image steady.
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Called overscan. Some TVs, like my Panasonic, have an option to switch it off. But then I get unwanted extra image around the edge especially a dotted line in the top left with some SD broadcasts and DVDs.
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Personally I’d use 50p.
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Bill, how many seconds do you hope to squeeze into your 10 mb file?
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Actually the Legria is probably the PAL version of this camera so will be shooting PAL framerates? Canon usually label Vixia as the NTSC version. I’ve an older Legria HFG10.
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Ok thanks Grazie. I got confused by the post.
I wonder if converting is the best choice anyway. If the need is to create a disk that PAL DVD users can play then why bother. Us in PAL land can play NTSC discs on our DVD players. It’s been that way since as long as I can remember. But in the US my understanding is that until recently NTSC players couldn’t play PAL.
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You say you want to make a NTSC DVD and then indicate you are converting your NTSC into PAL then dropping that into DVDA where presumably you are converting back to NTSC? That’s two framerate conversions and two pixel size conversions. If this is correct then I’m not surprised it’s a mess.
Suggest you give details of your source material and exactly what you are trying to achieve as I’m sure someone can help you with a more preferable workflow.
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Dave Turnidge gave you the answer above. But actually when you are in Envelope Tool mode and you right click on the track anywhere on the timeline the option (in MS, and presumably the same in Pro) is Insert/Remove Envelope. So you are not deleting but removing. Also the “selecting” doesn’t actually produce a visible selected or highlighted area. Somewhat confusing.
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If the videos were taken on a phone are they perhaps vertical?