Help me with some capture problems..

[risforroy]

So I just bought my DVX and today is the first day I've used it.

I've been using a Sony TRV950 for quite a while now, and the two cameras are polar opposites.

I'm working on the DVX though, so hopefully I'm going to be getting some great video here soon, but right now I'm having trouble with the capture of some preview footage I've shot.

It's not really important footage or anything, but it's the first thing I've shot with the camera, and I just would like to figure out how to put this in the timeline and it look good.

Right now I just did a normal capture, like I would with my TRV, and the picture looks horrible. It's interlaced to hell, and I can't seem to get it to go away. I've lost the crispness that pulled me to the DVX in the first place, and in all honesty, the capture is just terrible.

I suppose I'm doing something wrong, because the TRV footage always looked good, but I'm new to the DVX, and I just don't understand how to get this to capture right, and it look good.

I'm shooting with a 100BP, and I'm on scene file 1, and I'm using Adobe Premiere 6.5.

Can someone tell me the correct way to capture video? Is the program I'm using not going to work or am I just doing something completely wrong? I really need help down and someone to tell me what to set this capture to so I can get it right.

So, please, someone help a new user. I've searched and searched and can't find anything like this. Thanks for any help.

 

[pahooji]

If you haven't customized the scene file settings (and saved them), scene file 1 is 60i I believe, not 24p. So there's your interlacing. Also I'm not sure premiere 6.5 supported 24p timelines (though i could be wrong about this - i never used that version). As for "crispness," I'm not sure what you mean, though detail level can also be customized in the scene file settings. (Camera Menu -> Scene File)

Another thought on Premiere - if 6.5 doesn't support 24p timelines, it should still apply a pulldown to your 24p footage in capture automatically, giving you essentially 24p footage in a 29.97 avi file (it just repeats a frame every so often)

Nick

 

[Kevin Dorsey]

Premiere 6.5 did not have 24p support, but you can still shoot 24p and edit it in a 29.97 timeline. I would shoot with scene file F5 or F6, until you customize your camera, and edit your footage using the regular DV presets as NIck said above.

If you can, I would look into getting Premiere Pro 2.0, or Sony Vegas 6, either of these two will play nice with the DVX footage on the PC platform.

And remember that you are going to see more interlacing on your computer monitor than you will on a television. Judge your footage by it's final output.

Hope this helps
-Kevin