Mike Neders
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Hi, sorry to jump in but my question is I am using Photoshop a great deal and going blind while doing it (just kidding but seriously had change my glasses to a stronger type). I need a big monitor but the very large ones are very expensive.
Can I use the larger HDTV monitors so everything is a lot larger to work with? I realize would have to be the 1080 P or even greater if possible, but should or could I go to a TV so it is very large on a screen to better accommodate my vision?
Thanks very much for any response.
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Looking forward to hearing your response. My daughter is experiencing the same thing right now with a recent project for school. Up until this point, all the projects she has been doing for school which are usually anywhere from 5 to 8 minutes in length save after complete and adding music at about 150 to 350 mb’s depending, and would play in quick time no problem and be able to share with all at school. This last one saved at about 64 mb’s which seemed rather small and when trying to play she is getting the music file but not the video. The movie is there in final cut and plays great but its going into the saving process that causes the issue. A setting must be at fault but not sure which one. I will post up two files she has finished with the recent one and the info on both and hopefully someone can see what the issue is.
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Craig, thank you so much for your patience and time helping us out. Cannot tell you how much we appreciate it. Lesson learned with the Gain setting and I know it won’t happen again :). Will check those other sites out.
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Craig, thank you and everyone else who commented and tried to help with this issue. I have the clip browser installed on my pc and I pulled a clip in for viewing after finding the file folder on my hard drive into the program. I had the gentleman who rented the camera on the other phone line as he did the same thing using his MAC and pulled a very clean HD clip he had of something else so we could compare all the settings of each others clip. Not sure why but on the right side of screen in clip browser for PC I seem to have more tabs then the MAC browser or just labeled differently but one of them he did not see was a tab called Acquisition which shows more things about the clip other then what the general tab shows. I am reading them to him and I get to the gain setting and say its 18dB and he says there is your problem. The gain should have been set much lower on the camera and this is what is probably giving the video its graininess. I am guessing this is the case. Told my daughter and she started crying because she had a person who was suppose to know these things and make sure the settings were correct. She must have gotten 6 hours of sleep that whole weekend preparing for this shot and to have this happen really brought her down. The guy on the phone stated viewing the clip off the camera on the VLC player (the person who was helping me also stated not the best video player to judge quality) would not be a true version or look of what it actually looks like until you get it into final cut and see it that way.
We did find a site called neat video which sells a product you can install in several film editing programs like final cut which can remove the graininess and have examples on the site. Do you recommend or think this might help?
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Stop the presses! Need to correct some info I have been giving on the video and how it is being played. When she was filming they took the camera and connected it directly to her MAC laptop and played some of the clips they shot directly on a media player on her MAC, VLC Media player. She said the clips, full screen with the player connected to the camera, were beautiful and looked like HD. Dragging the files to her laptop, and then again playing on the VLC video player, major change in the quality. So VLC was reading the files differently off the camera folders versus now reading them off folders on her MAC. She has not viewed them in Final Cut as of yet. My guess is software or video driver issues on her MAC? Could this be the issue? Project is due soon so I am hoping anyone can help. Thanks.
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Craig, thanks very much for the help and responses. On the quality issue, I agree with the differences between monitors and how it looks but it seems so dramatic in the differences. I guess the best way I can describe it is like the first time you went from basic cable to HD on your TV and thought wow, never thought it could be this good. The link to the person giving some direction on using the camera is very good and I only wish we would have had the time to study it. Also knowing what was planed should have done some posts like I have seen on site with people asking for Guidance before they start. My thought is it would have to be the settings on final cut if their is no change in quality from going pc to mac. Her MAC has a great monitor and she is using the better processor i7 intel with a lot of memory. Only issue is the MAC computers at school are also showing this degradation in quality with final cut. Its like setting that iso way to high and then getting the noise all over the shot. Hopefully it is settings issues and we can correct it because we both think it should look better and as you confirmed the settings on the camera were ok as seen by the mp4 properties. Will keep you posted and respond right away if we figure it out.
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Just to update, she has used video cam’s very similar to this in the past with excellent results so do not thing the taping of the scenes or how to use the camera is a problem. They have shot short films before with excellent results so we are not thinking first time users here. When reviewing these most recent files on the camera during shooting, the quality was fantastic. She said she hooked her Mac laptop up to the camera at one point and not sure how but was able to watch one of the files on final cut and she said the quality was great. I don’t think she would be so concerned about the graininess of the videos if this were not the case and they just do not look great or as good as when first previewed. We do have the BPAV folders intact with all the files in each individual folder of each clip as was stated in an earlier post. I think the issue is now not so much the program clip browser which she already has to get the folders to final cut but the thinking is some drivers from sony or software that works in conjunction with final cut to get the files looking good is missing. Also, many have warned when you go PC to Mac and back it creates issue on occasion. The issue is the time frame she had and the way we got the files by copying them to my pc and then to her MAC instead of having the time and transferring to her Mac right from the get go. On the info I posted in reference to the specs of the files, do they look correct? If so, it has to be something simple in the transfer to final cut we are missing.
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Craig, for some reason my response to your questions is showing on a post back in the thread. Hopefully these responses can shed some light. Thanks
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ok just spoke to her and this is the info she gave me:
The files are showing as MPEG HD
Bit rate is 35 MBPS
Frame Rate is 59.94I
Aspect ratio 16×9
Frame size 1920 x 1080
Codec is Apple XDcamEX 1080 I 60
Using final cut Pro version 7She is stating that the files all have a grainy look instead of the high quality you would expect of a 1080 file. She is using the XDCAM transfer
She also stated SIS=sony drive -off site devices which I am not sure if that last bit of info is correct. -
Craig, cannot thank you enough for the help and guidance with your response. Yes under the gun and with this shoot, she had close to 25 people involved, several making sure everything was going to be there and the camera was not. The school had given them all out. So the day before the shoot, a Friday, I am looking all over the place where I can rent one and then go get it. Took two days to film and then I had to get camera to bring back to rental place for Monday morning.
When playing them in Final Cut, they look somewhat grainy and not the quality you would expect from a 1080 file. Same thing when I try to play them on my PC using VLC media player which is not the best one out there but plays mostly everything. Not a high quality look.
I will forward this post to her to get the answers you need and post asap. Thank you.