Taking the GH1 into a forest.

[Svart]

I have to say though that not all footage of "woods" or "grass" I've seen exhibits the mud issues. I took a stroll through some woods when it snowed here a couple weeks ago and when I reviewed the footage I didn't really see the mud at all.

Now I have seen strange things when I used different pulldown removers. some were more prone to macroblocking areas of my video. Supposedly they were doing the same things but obviously they weren't. Upon checking there was some kind of motion compensation that I could enable/disable in one of the programs and this would make the blocking worse or better.

Could some of this mud issue really be because of how the video is interpreted by the program in use?

I noticed that VLCplayer looked different than Windows Media Player, etc, when I would play a raw AVCHD file. One or the other would have blocky areas and strange artifacts, although I can't remember which one.

 

[Isaac_Brody]

 

[tflak]

I have to say though that not all footage of "woods" or "grass" I've seen exhibits the mud issues. I took a stroll through some woods when it snowed here a couple weeks ago and when I reviewed the footage I didn't really see the mud at all.

No leaves on the trees and solid white areas from the snow = not much detail. Put leaves on the trees with a slight breeze to get all those leaves moving and it would probably be a different story, even at 720p.

As has been mentioned before, the trick is to have as much area as possible out of focus to avoid the mud.