Great Lakes Dragaway (100B squeeze mode - 16:9)

Rubix³

Rubix³

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Hey all - here's some footage from a drag strip (Union Grove WI) I was at Friday night. Unfortunately, I wasn't allowed to get too close but I was still able to get a few angles.

The footage hasn't been CC'd yet and it's a bit dark (I over-compensated the zebra a bit), but after viewing it a few times I kinda like it that way. Gotta love the squeeze mode!!!!

WMV

The shutter was at 60 for the first 30 seconds, then 48 for the rest of the vid. I was thrilled to see how well the 48 shutter speed handled the cars. I haven't received my DVX book yet, so I haven't played much with the scene file settings, but my settings were as such:

Detail Level: 0
V Detail Level: 0
Detail Coring: 0
Chroma level: +5
Chroma Phase: 0
Color Temp: -1
Master Ped: -5
A. Iris Level: 0
Gamma: B. Press
Knee: Auto
Matrix: Normal
Skin tone detail: off
V Detail freq: Thin
Progressive: 24P (Advanced)

inspired from this gentleman's wonderful footage.


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The footage is kind of ho-hum...but you don't have a lot of control over how to cover it...I understand. Doesn't sound like we have a lot of amateur drag fans here? I love old cars.
 
Actually for a guy who's never been to something like that it was pretty interesting for me. Especially to see who's racing what kind of cars. I haven't gotten through all of your footage but it looks like the higher vantage point worked better...not too bad for not being able to get down on the field. I know you haven't relly edited too much but it would be cool to see a rapid fire start off edit, where you play back one start after another...

[edit] Just finished it. Maybe you did work on the edit...don't know, but I thoroughly enjoyed that, just because I've never seen anything like it. After a while I didn't mind the vantage point, maybe because you moved higher? Make sure to post the CC'd version....
 
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this is the first time I have seen the DVX squeeze mode. On my computer it looks really good. If it looks like that on a TV it does really good.
 
Acutally I'm working on a video that's for 16x9 right now and the squeeze mode seems to do pretty well. It does seem to soften a bit when it's viewed in the 16x9 ratio, but not too bad. Some of the extreme close-up's needed a slight sharpen filter in after effects...I'm anxious to view it on the plasma screen that it will be finally displayed on...
 
Mike McNeese said:
The footage is kind of ho-hum...but you don't have a lot of control over how to cover it...I understand. Doesn't sound like we have a lot of amateur drag fans here? I love old cars.
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You're right, it's kinda the same thing over and over again. I was feeling that while I was filming it. I wish I could've gotten closer.

The squeeze looks great on a TV - and my TV is a piece of crap. I have an AIW card that spits the result in perfect aspect ratio via composite (not even S-vid) and it looked just as it should on TV. Not sure about plasma. I'm really impressed with the squeeze mode too.

I'll post a CC'd result today.
 
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I was excited to see an example of the squeeze mode myself, as I heard bad things about it. Mostly that you're losing resolution. Is it that you lose resolutoin, or is it you don't get to use all the avalible resolution effectively? I didn't word that very well. It doesn't look bad to me at all! Oh well, I'm not a car guy, but those look like some seriously tuff cars, Outsiders tuff I mean.
 
To my knowledge, what's happening is you're taking a video with .9 pixel aspect ratio and stretching it to 1.2 (with 1 being a square pixel). So, that means you are going to lose resolution...I think of it as taking any photo into photoshop and scale it up just a little - what happens? It may be close to the original, but it will definitely be a little fuzzier, a little more “pixilated” etc.


I will post some stills from my last shoot soon for everyone to check out the quality/loss of quality. Didn't know it was of such interest because I thought there were lots of people already using it here... I'll put it in another thread because it seems like this one's unintentionally being hi-jacked... :)
 
hatsoff2halford said:
Do you have to add those black bars in squeeze mode?
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Squeeze mode adds them itself.

The only difference between squeeze on camera and shooting 4:3 & adding 16:9 in post is the ability to adjust the frame in post. This is the advantage. I shot squeeze because I knew I wasn't going to be adjusting the perspective in post.
 
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