Quick Sony Clip Browser 2 question

[Steve Shovlar]

OK I have Sony Clip Browser 2. I have shot the footage in 720P 50. I want to download it to the mac as SD footage.

Viewing the footage it looks very low res in clip browser. I export as a DV AVI and the file made is low res, with jaggies/steps everywhere. What am I doing wrong?

How do I increase resolution?
I have looked through every menu and there seems no way to change the resolution.


Thanks in advance.

 

[Stevet]

Steve,
I'm not sure about the export, but if viewing within the browser looks bad:

Go to Tool drop down menu > Options > Display > Resolution > select Normal

 

[Steve Shovlar]

There is no tool drop down menu.

OK found it in the preferences. i am using a mac version.

Doesn't solve the problem though. When i import a sd avi from the hd footage, its full of jaggies and steps. A mac problem?

Using the Sony transfer through FCP its perfect quality HD footage coming in.

 

[Alvise Tedesco]

doesn't help probably, but why don't you downconvert in fcp (http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/ex1_sd_output_young.html)?
Shot something to test both hvx and ex1 720/50over25 and I think I could shoot ex1 for SD w/o problem this way. Well, maybe if there are not too many high frequency details in frame.

 

[Steve Shovlar]

What I am curreently doing is using clip browser 2 to bring in the 720P50 footage into FCP, editing in HD, then out SD. I deliver a lot in HD but do have two jobs here which are SD only with no need to capture and edit in HD, So I thought I would use Cli browser to convert the footage into SD and edit SD in FCP. I heard that Clip browser gives excellent HD/SD conversion, but when I tried it all I got was horrible low res files, with jaggies/steps and almost blurred images. Certainly no the crisp results others have reported. I can't find a way to incrrease the bit rate of the AVI files or anything. There just doesn't seem a way of increasing the quality of the files that have been converted.

Or do I have to buy the Mainconcept plugin pack 2 to get this to work better? In which case I will stick with working in HD and going to SD in Compressor.