[Jose Wejebe]

Ok, Have gotten some better results with the “Jaggie” but at a cost. Still shooting DVCPRO 50 480/60i with HVX 200 on P2 cards. Still importing to FCP via firewire.

In Scene 1 I have set the Detail to a -5 and the jaggies get better but still not gone. At -7 the jaggies go almost completely away but you introduce an unacceptable “soft” look to the whole image as well as what looks like noise when moving the camera. Even at -5 there is some softness and noise when moving camera. Maybe a lower setting -4 or -3 may work for you RICH.

Also in Scene File 1 have tried to set the Vertical Detail FREQ to THICK as Jan suggested, but you cannot change that setting with the camera set to DVCPRO 50 480/60i. The setting here seems to stays at THIN.

Have played with the detail coring some and that seems to just change direction of the Jags but maybe there is something there.

The only other solution for the time being is to shoot in DVCPRO HD and downconver to SD but that seems like a waste of disk space when there are projects that don’t require that.

Have run out of time to keep messing with this, need to get back to production but a little hesitant to use this cam in these setting until some of this is ironed out. Too much money spent on location and manpower to have an unreliable image. I know we are feeling some growing pains with this and hopefully all this will be resolved.

All the best,
Jose Wejjebe

SF Enterprises Inc.

[Jose Wejebe]

We have been having the same ‘jagged” interlace artifact in most of our DVCPRO 50 60i footage using the HVX 200 with P2 card. The lines are especially severe on thin hard edges like fishing rods or telephone wires, edges of boats, ropes, docks ect. The problem is quite extreme in some cases especially when panning or tilting the camera .

On thing that seems to help but does NOT solve the problem is to set the detail level to -4 in scene file 1. All the other settings in that scene file are left at default. Another go around that we have used that does seem to fix the problem is to bring your footage in uncompressed via the component out of the camera. Unfourtunately you have to use cature now in FCP and you get no timecode, which renders most projects useless imn multi cam shoots.

I hope it is only a setting issue and not a codec issue,. We have had several programs that are way below the quality that we have in dvcam not in image color quality. but rather the degree of the diagonal lines moving through the picture on shots with motion completely ruin the shot.

Does anyone have any advice with regards to this??

SF Enterprises Inc.

[Jose Wejebe]

We have been having the same ‘jagged” interlace artifact in most of our DVCPRO 50 60i footage using the HVX 200 with P2 card. The lines are especially severe on thin hard edges like fishing rods or telephone wires, edges of boats, ropes, docks ect. The problem is quite extreme in some cases especially when panning or tilting the camera .

On thing that seems to help but does NOT solve the problem is to set the detail level to -4 in scene file 1. All the other settings in that scene file are left at default. Another go around that we have used that does seem to fix the problem is to bring your footage in uncompressed via the component out of the camera. Unfourtunately you have to use cature now in FCP and you get no timecode, which renders most projects useless imn multi cam shoots.

I hope it is only a setting issue and not a codec issue,. We have had several programs that are way below the quality that we have in dvcam not in image color quality. but rather the degree of the diagonal lines moving through the picture on shots with motion completely ruin the shot.

Does anyone have any advice with regards to this??

SF Enterprises Inc.