FX1 HDV to DV test

[chalbers]

Hello !

I found some footage of the FX1 online and did a test with it.

Normally if you convert DV 60i footage to DV 24p you loose sharpness because you blend interlace lines.

So I thought, HDV gives a much higher res, but the problem is, it's ONLY in 60i ! And I WANT 24p.

If you convert that to 24p with blending interlace lines, you loose sharpness in HDV, but it's probably not noticable if converted to DV.

So I did a test with the FX1 footage and first converted it down to DV 60i . Then I also converted it to DV 24p using interlace blend. The result is that both DV clips look exactly the same sharpwise quality !! The resulting 24p footage is EXCELLENT !!

Just take a look. It's DV anamorphic widescreen footage
http://home.comcast.net/~chalbers/flowers_60i.mov
http://home.comcast.net/~chalbers/flowers_24p.mov

Makes the FX1 more interesting to me then the XL2. Specially much cheaper ! True 16:9 and 24p !

The only bad part is. I do need CPU time to downconvert all HDV footage to DV first.

Frank

[Hyperbolic]

Great footage! Thanks so much for doing the comparison; I'm really impressed with the result (with my naked eye, anyway).

Can you tell us which software and which settings in that software were used?

[chalbers]

Can you tell us which software and which settings in that software were used?



That was done in Vegas 4.0

Looks interesting huh ? :-)

Frank

[Hayden_Rivers]

Anyone want to take a stab at "fully processing" the footage? Down convert, DVFilm Maker to 24p, Magic Bullet Effects, Color Finesse color correction, black bars, etc., etc. Considering that I haven't even been able to play any of this Hi-Def footage on my box, I'd love to see some footage really tweaked and downconverted to DVD resolution (since that's probably a decent format to master to for distribution). I'd do it myself, but I can't even open the damn .m2t files in Virtual Dub or any other program that I have.

[chi_red]

try VLC media player for .m2t files.
free at
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[Hayden_Rivers]

I meant I haven't been able to play it at full speed without skips or stuttering. But thanks for the VLC link. I"ve been using VLC for quite a while now and it always seems to work when my other 2 media players (WMP and ViPlay) can't seem to play the file.

[deronbauman]

For those that run a mac, mpeg streamclip does a really good job of transforming the m2t clips into a variety of formats and resolutions you can play back with quicktime. I've even transformed a couple of the new movies with dvfilm at 24p. It's pretty impressive what you can do with these files.

http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html

[redbaron_ict]

A quick fix is to change the extension from .mt2 to .mpg and it will play in Media player. It views it just like a MPEG2 file.