60i in CS4

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Scottish

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I made a thread the other day, and it's leading me to believe that i'm having issues with my capture settings. Someone did offer advice but it didn't quite do the trick. I have a feeling I might have trouble finding help here, not sure how many of you guys shoot in 60i.

Could any one offer up some settings they use in CS4?

That last guy said something about changing the pixel aspect ratio, but I couldn't find anything about that in the setting.

Thanks,
Scott.
 
60i is the standard NTSC video rate. With the DVX, this means the basic DV NTSC codec at 29.97 with 48kHz audio.
 
My question was geared more towards the settings I need to tweak for the actual capturing process, to get the best possible picture.
 
You shouldn't have to tweak much, unless you decide to capture at a higher codec for editing (some folks have worked that way... capturing at an uncompressed less-compressed codec). Stay with the codec that is native to the footage, which is DV.

Remember that this is all 1s and 0s, and capturing your DVX footage is really just a matter of transferring data. It doesn't actually change anything unless you have told the NLE to transcode (or if you're removing pull-down from 24p footage). Working in a higher codec can be fine, though it does require more processing power and some specialized, external hardware.

QuickTime Player really is a terrible viewing method. I find that unfortunate, since QuickTime is so useful (I live in a Final Cut Pro world, which is all QT-based). And watching your video as you edit on your NLE's desktop isn't much better for several reasons (including lowered-rez for realtime playback, and innacurate proxy color space). The best way to judge what's really going on with your video is to watch on an external, and properly-calibrated video monitor as you work. That will show you what's going on with sharpness.

If it's good when it's captured, but color correction or other filters/effects have a negative impact on the footage, you may need to set your NLE to render effects at a higher codec. If it's good during the edit, and then shows up fuzzy downstream (on DVD or on the Web) it indicates a problem with the settings used to compress for DVD or Web distribution.
 
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