[Rich Enos]

Thanks for the input everyone. We own two HVX’s and I did a compare just to make sure that one was having a specific problem. Unfortunatley the jaggies were present and exactly that same on both cameras and now with your input I am convinced that this is an issue for everyone. I have adjusted the detail and that helps some, but I think it only slightly masks the problem.

The only way that I have been able to get ride of the problem is by dubbing the footage – compositely to a DVCpro50 deck. The jaggies are gone but so is much of the image quality.

At this point the only other way around it seems to be shoot HD and downcovert which presents huge storage problems at a station(PBS) shooting multiple long format programs at the same time. We are just not ready for that yet.

I am at NAB now and will do my best to discuss this with any and everyone who will listen that has experience with these cameras.

I will post any answers that I get.

Rich Enos
Chief Photographer
KVIE TV

[Rich Enos]

Thanks for the info. That is the exact problem we are having. We have found that if we capture out of the camera video out (firewire or composite yuk) the problem mostly goes away. When we do any sort of file tranfer (which is what we are efforting to do – go tapeless) the Jaggies are unacceptably bad.

I’m not sure where to go from here. Is it a interlace/Progressive problem? Is it a 3:2 pulldown problem? A settings in FCP ingest problem?

Obviously the camera when playing the files out takes care of it. Help Jan.

[Rich Enos]

I was shooting with scene file 5 cine V – which I now see is set up with Thick V detail. I guess I should stick to Scene file 1. If we want a similar look. I realize they won’t match exactly. We just want it to be similar looking video frame rates.

We are going to be migrating to P2 (HVX200’s & SPX800’s) but currently we shoot tape with AJ-D900’s.