Rylan Zolinski
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Use default settings for shooting or tweaking the camera to get that certain "look" and then editing it even further through a program (like FCP or Vegas)?
Best method for shooting?
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Chris Light
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if you're fairly confident that you know the look you are going for, and can do it in-cam, go for it. but i prefer shooting with a neutral look (which may still involve extensive tweaking, as auto settings sometimes aren't as neutral as they seem.), then acheiving my desired look in my NLE. hope that's not too broad, but it's a simple approash that works for me.
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Rylan Zolinski
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I like editing in Vegas, but once I upload the video somewhere, the quality seems to downgrade harshly; I've been playing around with Vegas for over one year and have yet to figure it out. Any time I upload raw video though, it looks really crisp.
the quality goes down a lot when you upload to the web? or maybe dvd?
what i do with vegas and avchd is use the right intermediate codec, before editing anything... getting the raw footage into a near-lossless format right off the bat can make a difference later on, depending on what you are doing to it.
what i do with vegas and avchd is use the right intermediate codec, before editing anything... getting the raw footage into a near-lossless format right off the bat can make a difference later on, depending on what you are doing to it.
Chris Light
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OSV...great point...since you mention a "right" intermediate codec for avchd, would you happen to know the most loss-less codec for hvd when capturing HDV from my A1 in vegas?...but i guess to complicate things, i capture in HDVSplit, and i'm not sure of the codec it uses....but if i can capture within vegas, then i prefer it to "stay in vegas"....any tips?
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lovetrumpsfear
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I'm not a Vegas user, but OSV's right on... Capturing to a visually lossless codec is one of the best ways to avoid headaches later on.
I capture to Apple's Intermediate Codec, which (if you're on a PC) is similar to PhotoJPEG at about 80%. It runs about 48 gigs/hour, which seemed like a lot when I was first moving away from native HDV editing, but the upsides are great. Like PhotoJPEG, it's not compressed temporally. So no more I-, B-, and P-frames, every frame is discrete, not relying on the preceding I-frame to supply most of its data.
I'm beginning post on a doc with ~22 hours of field footage, and I bought a 1TB FW800 drive just for capture scratch, knowing I wanted an AIC workflow. It was tough to lay out the cash at the time, but it really is a big improvement over working in HDV.
Just my $0.02.
I capture to Apple's Intermediate Codec, which (if you're on a PC) is similar to PhotoJPEG at about 80%. It runs about 48 gigs/hour, which seemed like a lot when I was first moving away from native HDV editing, but the upsides are great. Like PhotoJPEG, it's not compressed temporally. So no more I-, B-, and P-frames, every frame is discrete, not relying on the preceding I-frame to supply most of its data.
I'm beginning post on a doc with ~22 hours of field footage, and I bought a 1TB FW800 drive just for capture scratch, knowing I wanted an AIC workflow. It was tough to lay out the cash at the time, but it really is a big improvement over working in HDV.
Just my $0.02.