Capturing in Adobe Premiere CS4

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Scottish

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I just got a new DVX, after having my first one stolen. And the other night I went to capture some of the footage(I film skateboarding), which I shot with basically completely factory stock settings.

Everything looked fine one the LCD when I watched it back with my friend, but when I went to capture I hit some problems. I'm capturing using a Panasonic consumer camcorder, and I'm capturing through Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, on the new iMac.

Originally, Premiere wanted to capture pre-compressed footage, which I didn't want, so I changed the compression to none, the quality to best, and the color drop-down bar to "Millions of Colors+".

The footage looks decent, I just feel that I lost a bit more quality while capturing that I expected. There's a loss of detail on the edges of objects, and the skateboarders face isnt as sharp as I'd like. It's not a fuzziness you'd get through miss-focused footage, especially since I feel the same about some footage I captured shot with my friend's VX2100.

Any suggestions as to capture settings, or different capture methods?

Thanks,
Scott
 
First off, you'll never get great monitoring out of a cheap computer monitor....if you want to monitor, you need to get a dedicated monitor that has had bars run on it.

Second, I'm using CS3, so I'm unsure if it's exactly the same...but first on program monitor instead of having it say "fit", switch over to 100%(you may need to re-size things for this). Second right click inside the monitor and go to quality...select "highest"

Also in project setting you might want to go to video rendering and make sure theres a check mark in "maximum bit depth".

I hope some of this helps.
 
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