Eric Naylor
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Okay, I don’t have the YC Waveform, but I have some updates:
I opened the captured screen and just played the footage and it looks brighter through that screen. Then I pressed record and captured the footage. Unfortunately, I can’t see the footage when I’m recording it. But after it was recorded and dragged into the timeline it looked noticeably darker. Particularily along the sides of the frame. In the capture preview image and girls head is visible, in the recorded image it is covered by darkness. So I am positive that there is a loss of light after it has been captured. However, I exported the footage to my desktop and it looked fine again. Alittle dark still, but I’ve relaized the footage is a little dark. So what could this be?
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I should have pointed this out too:
There are 2 sections of the captured footage that appear fine. The first is at the beginning of the tape and lasts until the camera is moved to another shot. The second occurs about 30 minutes into the tape and is sandwhiched between two darker cuts of the same shot. . .This is the piece of evidence that leads me to believe its the footage and we did something wrong with the camera inbetween shots. Is it possible the tape has some kind of copy protection or if I had an inferior computer this could cause this….And again the image didn’t look like this when previewing through the same Adobe premiere capture screen.
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Okay. You’ve been helpful and I appreciate the input. One last question and I’ll send you the YC waveforms later on tonight. Well two questions:
On the day of the shoot I used Premiere to preview the footage and it didn’t look no where near as dark as it did after I captured it. Can that happen?
And for my future shoots, can you recommend a broadcast monitor to get an accurate preview image? I think I’ll save up some extra money and just hire a cinematographer =(.
I’m also pretty sure my television has been adjusted for brightness. I remember when I first bought it, the levels were way too high and it was set under vivid or extreme or some other superlative and I set it to my more comfortable normal or regular.
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Here’s a link to two images:
https://www.hv20.com/showthread.php?t=14898
The first one is the dark image taken after capture.
The second one is the image adjusted after levels, but it depicts the HDtv image fairly accuarately. Sorry to be a pain in the ass, but I just want to get to the bottom of this. I fear it may be the footage. As I said, I’m still learning this program, but I’ve used 2.0 plenty of times and without much of an issue.
Could the image change that drastically between monitors?
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I’m at work right now, but I will send you a screen shot of the YC waveform. The footage looks the same when the premiere file is played through windows media player. However, I downloaded HDV-split and captured through there and the footage looks a little brighter when played through windows media player but dark again when imported into premiere.(still didn’t look how it looked on the cameras LCD, my HDtv, or how it did through premiere’s capture screen on the day of the shoot). I don’t have any preview hardware. I’m going to try another computer, but it’s weird, it seems to get dark after the capture. Could not having the proper codecs, plugins, wrong video card driver, etc. contribute to this? I have not downloaded any codecs or plug ins, but I did install the 24p preset in premiere.
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Through firewrie. I hit file, then capture, then record. I’ve never used HD before so it is possible that I may be doing something wrong. Although, I captured footage from a minidv the other day and even that came up dark, but no where near as dark as this footage. And I’ve imported that minidv footage before while I was using Premiere Pro 2.0. This is the first time I’m using CS3 and the first time I’m using any editing software since reformatting my computer.