Medium Gain brings GRAINY results!

Norm Sanders

Norm Sanders

Script Wrangler
So I had heard that HIGH gain setting (+12db) would make things grainy, but I didn't know MEDIUM would ... that is, until AFTER I had completed the shots & moved on to the next location.

Bottom line, it was an accident, and didn't realize until setting up at the next location that the switch was on MEDIUM. Yep, quite frusterating.

On a different note, I was EXTREMELY careful not to pan too quickly as I was shooting in 24PA ... however, what I didn't know is that you have to be JUST as careful when panning across still pictures on your NLE. I use Vegas 5 & just delivered a video for a church, only to see that the few still pictures I used have a slight stutter to them.

Chalk that one up to learning from experience. Hopefully some of you can take note for future jobs you're working in 24P.
 
Was the stutter in the stills becaues you didn't deinterlace? or did you actually set up the camera on a tripod and have photos taped to a wall and physically pan the camera to shoot the stills? ala Ken Burns, Stacey Peralta
 
Turn on motion blur! All problems solved. Gain on the DVX is the devil. This camera has a horrible S/N ratio. It's my biggest complaint right now but it also gives a nice film grain look until you edit and mess with levels.
 
In this case I can spin it as being okay, since it was really two interviews, somewhat of a documentary, so it kind of helps to distinguish the two shots.

Thinking about it today, I wondered if using Motion Blur would do the trick, so thanks for confirming it.

As for the first question, no I wasn't panning pictures on walls. During the interview, the couple would talk about their disabled children, and I would fade in a panning picture of the kids over them while they did V.O. During the pan, after buring it to DVD & watching it in 24P is when I finally noticed it.
 
Hi John, I must not have communicated well. They were pan/crop ... it's just that I discovered when working in 24P, that if you pan too quickly it will STILL strobe, just as if you were panning with the camera.
 
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