pixelation around red edges

scharky said:
The reason people are being agressive in your eyes, although I personally didn't read any "agressive" posts in this thread is becasue this question has been asked a thousand times, on this board, on other boards etc. The issue is indeed the DV codec itself. It doesn't matter what camera it was shot on, it matters about the colors themselves. Rich colors and the DV codec do not play well together. Try this as a test. Since you are using final cut pro go back to your 720p footage (which still may have a bit of this issue) and export to both the quicktime DV codec and the quicktime animation codec, both in SD. See which one looks better.
Now the reason you may not have seen the same thing in footage shot with your DVX is becasue the color saturation may have been less, depending on the angle the footage was shot at, what was in the frame and camera settings.
This issue has been discussed at nauseum, and the advice that timur gave you is sound, especailly about the chroma blur that will get rid of that right away, something that may also have been used when exporting to H.264.
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I'd like to appologize...its just that I'm dealing with two other camera angles that are crap, my other shooters somehow messed up (out of focus, whitebalance problems, composition problems). I have to have this done by Monday, and I'm freaking out because I'm having to color correct, digitally zoom each cut to correct the compositions problems (although the screen grab I posted was not zommed). Just under a lot of stress.

Sorry to take it out on you guys, particularly Timur.
Thanks
 
Endless, No sweat. We've all been there and we wish you luck! Thanks for pointing it out though.
 
Endless_Static_Sea said:
if you go to adam-powell.com, and look at his most recent music video (Down I Go), the whole video looks clean as hell. Yet, at the very end of the video, there is this guy in a costume, under all this red light, and it is hella pixelated.

The thing is, he shot it in DVCPro HD, so I don't understand why that would still have pixelation if it was shot in HD with 4:2:2 color sampling?

check out the video @ adam-powell.com
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It happened to me too when I downconverted an HD movie to DV. In Vegas, there is a way to export directly from the HD timeline to an "HD" dvd template. I know it is not an HD DVD, but it does come out better. But when I export to say an NTSC DV output, it takes on those characteristics and looks FUGLY. So maybe on the adam powell one it had to do with his export.
 
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