Perry Cheng
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It is printed on your original CD case.
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Perry -
When you say quality is bad, where are you viewing it and what is the final media people will be viewing it? I hope you have tested it there. Second, some fonts and colors does not look good in various media as well. You have to be careful on choosing them. I know there were experts who put these info on the web for us, but I could not put my hand on them right now.
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I don’t think so. The capture file is pretty much ready as soon as the tape ends, at least for me. I can play it immediately. I don’t think capturing with Premier vs others make a difference. I could be wrong. I wish someone can verify.
Thanks Mike.
Perry
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try: https://www.neatvideo.com/
very good quality and but, long process time if you don’t have super powerful machine.
Perry
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Mike,
Some people raise this question about CS3 capture artifacts. I thought HDV capture is the same as DV oen and it is just a “tranfer process”, so it it really does not matter what software you use, the end results is the same. Am I off on this?Perry
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As far as capturing, I don’t think CS3 does anything specific other than file transfer like with DV, I could be wrong. But, if you want, download this freeware, HDVSplit and it will capture with scene detection and previews and the final product is .m2t which can be played in VLC Media player (free). In fact, Prem CS3 captured footage also can be played in VLC media player and you can determine if it has the grain or not. (I doubt CS3 causes anything there). As far as best DVD output, it is not the captured clips you have to worry about, it is the re-encoded method/softwares. In general, Premiere is not the best as it uses MainConcept which has not have an update for a while. (I read here and there it is not the best looking encoder. But for most non-professional job, it is ok, I guess.)
P.S.: to view encoded video, if the final product requires best of the best looking, then, encode back to .m2t or H.264 and view it with an external viewer like LimHD200i (sweet!! I heard.) I ordered mine, but haven’t got it yet, hopefully next week.
Best wish,
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Joe,
It is good to know the manual control gets you what you wanted w/ your External HDTV. MPEG is more compressed, but the quality should still be super. I suspcion may be the 24P? But that usually has to do with smoothness of the play and not the jaggness of the image. Was your image clear but just jagged edges? Could it be an interlaced problem? (Try not to use the Canon 24p preset but a HD preset and import your captured footage, what do you get?) “Do you set your preview in Premiere to Highest quality and not draft?”
As far as Vista, CS3 does not support Vista. Some people were able to use it, but other have strange problems. I suspect that may be true with AspectHD as well? (I am not sure, others might chim in).Perry
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HDV capture in CS3 is very primitive. I use HDV Split to do the capturing. The quality of the video, however, has nothing to do with the capturing, it is how you had your camera set and what you view the video with. Do you have a HD TV w/ HDMI that you can see to verify if the quality is what you expect? If the quality is still like what you described, then, something might be wrong with the presets in your A1. 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.
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I installed Elecard Player, no help. I think Bridge is using its own codec? I already had CoreAVC codec installed, and it plays H.264 files with WM Player, KMPLayer or such just fine. I also have VLC which plays .m2t fine. But previewing in Bridge, I was only able to get stutter previews of MP4 files and only screen shot preview of .m2t files (Strangely, I am able to scrub the mini-timeline in preview to see the rest of the .m2t, just not able to play it; mp4 videos play stutter in preview, but at least it play, just no screen shots of what the video look like in preview windows.) I hope this is not too confusing.
P.s.: Before installing CoreAVC or any other codec, Bridge behaves exactly the same.
Perry
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No matter what I tried, I can’t get .m2t to play. What codec does Bridge use? Can users tell what codec for it to use?
Perry