Tom Blizzard
November 6th, 2008, 12:09 AM
First time I've noticed this video picture quality problem. I've never had it using my Canon GL2 cams or my smaller Canon point and shoot when I use the video mode.
A friend of mine used his Sony cam to video and now that I have included his shots with mine in a project, the problem shows on his scenes but not mine.
His cam, standard definition, is about two years old and the video is stored on a hard drive in the camera. I had no problem loading his video to my computer using the software that came with his cam and Premiere seemed to accept it OK. It looks great when the timeline was rendered.
However, and this is hard to explain and I probably don't know the correct technical terminology, but I'll try.
When the project was burned to a DVD and shown on my TV , all his shots with pans seem to leave flickering extra edgesof any object around the object.. It was like double or triple edges of any person and/or object as the pan was made. The edges seemed to move slightly or vibrate as the pan was made. When the pan stops, the extra edges go away and the video returns to good quality.
I went to Chuck's book and read his suggestions pertaining to all the the "Field Options" but without the trial and error of burning many, many DVDs using, each option separately for each trial DVD, I don't know if that's my solution or not.
Your help would be very much appreciated.:)
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EDIT:
I watched the DVD again on several different players here.
I know ATR will have a lot of good questions so maybe these answers will help a bit.
1st : The "motion blur" is a result of the camera pan not the movement of the person(s) in the video.
2nd: The blur is all around the object and/or persons in the video, but only during the pan. At first I thought it might come under the category of a "motion trail" but it is not a trail behind the person or object in that the blur or extra edges are all around the object when panning.
3rd: I thought, at first, that it might be an interlace vs. progressive issue, but now I'm not sure.
A friend of mine used his Sony cam to video and now that I have included his shots with mine in a project, the problem shows on his scenes but not mine.
His cam, standard definition, is about two years old and the video is stored on a hard drive in the camera. I had no problem loading his video to my computer using the software that came with his cam and Premiere seemed to accept it OK. It looks great when the timeline was rendered.
However, and this is hard to explain and I probably don't know the correct technical terminology, but I'll try.
When the project was burned to a DVD and shown on my TV , all his shots with pans seem to leave flickering extra edgesof any object around the object.. It was like double or triple edges of any person and/or object as the pan was made. The edges seemed to move slightly or vibrate as the pan was made. When the pan stops, the extra edges go away and the video returns to good quality.
I went to Chuck's book and read his suggestions pertaining to all the the "Field Options" but without the trial and error of burning many, many DVDs using, each option separately for each trial DVD, I don't know if that's my solution or not.
Your help would be very much appreciated.:)
_________________________________________________
EDIT:
I watched the DVD again on several different players here.
I know ATR will have a lot of good questions so maybe these answers will help a bit.
1st : The "motion blur" is a result of the camera pan not the movement of the person(s) in the video.
2nd: The blur is all around the object and/or persons in the video, but only during the pan. At first I thought it might come under the category of a "motion trail" but it is not a trail behind the person or object in that the blur or extra edges are all around the object when panning.
3rd: I thought, at first, that it might be an interlace vs. progressive issue, but now I'm not sure.