Setting for Most Details

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kbar

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Ive been shooting some practice interview sessions to find out what settings work best, and the results have not been that good.

Lighting is good, but the subject doesnt seem to be sharp in focus... even though it is in focus. It looks fine on the computer screen, but when i burn it to a dvd and run it on the television, it looks so soft- almost like its not in complete focus- but again, it is in complete focus.

What could be doing this?

thanks for any help!
 
Re: Setting for Most Details

Well, first thing to do is play the original footage back from tape, to see how it looks from tape on the TV. If it looks sharp from tape but soft from DVD, then the problem is obviously in the DVD encoding.

If it's not sharp on tape then you may want to crank up the DETAIL LVL and V DETAIL LEVEL settings, and turn down the DETAIL CORING, until you get the footage as sharp as you want it.

I'm suspecting that the DVD encoding is where it's happening.
 
Re: Setting for Most Details

Ok, ive just checked the video straight from the deck----

It LOOKS GREAT!!

So it is the dvd encoding. I'll have to check that out now-


But I really want to say THANKS!!! to this community. All the things ive learned from you all has kept me from soooooo much frustration!

So again, THANKS!!!

DVXuser RULES!!
 
Re: Setting for Most Details

Could be in encoding settings from authoring program. Several things to check are mb per sec, GOP (set at 15), sometimes that causes problems with the image clarity.
 
Re: Setting for Most Details

Alright, I looked at the compression settings and this is what I used:

Im using Premiere pro 1.5-

There was no pre or post on - and thats were the noise reduction setting was. So the noise reduction setting was off.

High Quality 5

mb per sec was at a maximum of 9, a target rate of 7, and minimum of 1.5

GOP was m : 3
n : 15


This did better, but it still wasnt as detailed as the actual footage when I look at it on my computer before I burned it to dvd.-

The question is, Can I get that original uncompressed quality to the dvd???

Any suggestions?

Thanks
 
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