Quality getting worse after capture?

[HarryChristy]

The quality looks great when i go to capture and see it playing. When i click "Capture Now" and then look at the clip in my comp is seems to get a little bit more blurry like the quality has gone down. Also, my friend who uses final cut express's dvx footage looks a lottt sharper than mine and we had the focus's aligned.

 

[MikeWilkinson]

How does it look on your preview monitor after capture? Are your capture and sequence settings correct? Are you sure? Seeing the clip get a bit more blurry sounds like it is being rendered in realtime (green bar in timeline) which means you have incorrect settings somewhere.

 

[bigbossbmb]

are you looking at the footage on a broadcast monitor?

 

[Shane Ross]

What they said...

Shane's Stock Answer #2: Blurry playback

ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL BROADCAST MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.

The Canvas shows you what happens after the codec you are working with has been applied. The Viewer shows you the material in its native format. Once you drop the footage from the Viewer into the timeline, it inherits the attributes of the sequence. If it is a DV sequence, the footage will render out as DV.

1. Disable overlays on the Canvas.

2. Make sure you've rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline).

Video playback requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or broadcast monitor routed thru your camera or deck.