[Joe Cinquina]

Tim / Jenny – When I play it from my camera straight to a HDTV it is incredible. The footage looks great. If it is true what you are saying Tim about it just looking grainy in the PP3 monitor window then I am OK with that. I just want to be able to retain the best possible quality when I go out DVD. I am trying to understand how I should encode/convert (settings) to do that.

Jenny – The Cineform product is significantly better. It produces an AVI instead of a mpeg and it seems like it is easier and more quicker in response to edit. But as time runs out on my demo (13 days left), I am reminded of the $400 proce tag. I have also taken some frame outputs to comapre between the two and the Cineform is much better the the HDV mpeg.

Thanks Again.

Joe

[Joe Cinquina]

Thank you for clearing that up for me.

What is the difference between Frame- mode vs. Progressive?

Regards,

Joe

[Joe Cinquina]

I have not done a formal comparison, but I have concerns. I have both a GL2 and a XH-A1. I love my GL2 and it has ben a great perfomer, but I am moving in to the HDV world. The XH-A1 is awesom at HDV, but I shot some 4×3 SD footage for the first time yesterday and it didn’t not look as sharp as the GL2. It might be me, but it looked pretty soft and the color was a lot different then what I was seeing in the viewfinder. This is after I whitebalanced.

Any other input would be great.

Best Regards,

Joe

[Joe Cinquina]

Perry – Thank you for your reply. I have verified that the camera settings are fine. I pretty much shoot in manual mode in control everything. I have a new Hi-Def projector and I hooked up my camera straight to it using a Componet cable. The quality is jaw-droping. To this end I am extremely pleased.

It is when i capture the footage into PP3 and get stuck with a crummy mpeg file. What a disappointment. I have downloaded a trial version of AspectHD which I get an intermediate AVI file. That is much better then the mpeg.

I guess my question has been refined after a couple days of expeirmenting;

When I capture HDV 60i or 24F and I get a far less quality mpeg or a slightly better AspectHD AVI to edit, when I output to DVD, what will I end up with? Will it be as good as I am seeing in the edit, or is the quality retain somehow?

A couple of side questions;

Do you know if AspectHD is fully compatiable with Vista? After capture I can not play from the timeline. It just advances to the end of the captured video stream. I can scrub, but not play.

Also, I have a HP f2105 monitor, 21″ wide screen native 1600 X 1050, is there any way to set that to hi-def?

Thank you for your time. I really want to get my head around this so I can be on my way editing in HDV. It doesn’t make sense that you can have such a great camera quality and never realize it.

Thanks.

Best Regards,

Joe

However, if the quality is good, then, you may need to calibrate your monitor. Also, do you set your preview in Premiere to Highest quality and not draft? (I am sure you know preview is just preview).

BTW, you will also be disappointed, if you are as picky as some of us and you should, the quality of the edited HD footage via premiere, if remains in .m2t or other mpeg2 formats, will be very disappointing! Unless you buy the AspectHD or similiar 3rd party product! (i.e. #1 complaint from customers)

Hope this help.
Perry

[Joe Cinquina]

Thank you for your reply. I have a 3 ghz P Dual core computer running Vista with a Direct x 10 8600 Nvidia Garphics card. I am capture via firewire from my Canon XH-A1 video camera set in HDV mode. I am using the Canon 24F HDV project setting in PP3. I have also shot footage in 60i HDV and used the HDV1080i30 project setting for capture. In the capture interface I use the the DV/HDV NTSC Canon Alt1 or ALt2 settings.

I do not see any preview when capturing. When capturing is done, I get a pretty ragged looking mpeg.

Thanks.

[Joe Cinquina]

Thanks for your reponse. I was thinking of something that would complete in about 3 to 4 seconds and would be about 1 to 5 pixel thick to represent each thread strand. You are right about the different speeds or else it will just look like a wipe. I just do not know how to get this one done. Any help would be awesome.

Regards,

Joe Cinquina

[Joe Cinquina]

Sorry Mike. I figured it out. I needed to go one more directory deep. US-EN! Do you know if anyone has a list of AE plugs that work and the ones that don’t within in PP2?

Thanks again.

[Joe Cinquina]

Am I not putting it in the right directory? It does not show up as a video effect in the tab…

[Joe Cinquina]

The best way to learn a piece of Software is to experiment yourself. There is no better way. You become more efficent and less time then relying on tutorials. Now that I have said that, there is a problem for those who own tools like particle illusion, but are on tight schedules and are looking for cool effects for their clients project’s and don’t have the time to invest to learn it top / bottom. This is exactally my situation now. Between, pre-production, production, editing and so on, sometimes a tutorial is a life saver. My current situation is that I need to be able to form a figure out of debre that is swirling around from the wind. The current tutorial for this effect referneced in this thread just wont do, but the video attached to the project is perfect. Any chance and see a tutorial that reflects the video?

Thanks.

Joe Cinquina

[Joe Cinquina]

I am not sure I follow. Since this will be very transparent and hard to really make out due to the fact it will be obsecured by the grain and distraction of everything else blowing around, it might work. I am really looking for advice on what plugin to use and how to execute it.

Thanks again.

Regards,

Joe Cinquina