What's wrong with my video?

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risforroy

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So I've been using my DVX for a few weeks now, and I'm just not getting the hang of things. My colors aren't vibrant, they're dull and flat, and I've got more image noise than I could ever imagine. What is wrong with me?

Why can't I set the scene settings right and get the effect I desire? I just want nice, rich colours, way less image noise than what I have now, and a crisp picture. My diagonals come out all jagged, and not smooth, and curved lines come out stepped. I just don't know what settings I'm doing wrong.

Here's a clip. It's just a throwaway clip, nothing special, but everything is so dull and flat, and that's not what I want.
http://media.putfile.com/hostingpy-stuff

Unless I forgot to save something, this is exactley what my settings were. I may have forgot to save the Chroma Phase setting before I turned the camera off, but it wasn't above +2 or +3, I'm pretty sure.

Detail Level = +2
Chroma Level = +4
Color Temp = +5
Master Ped = -1
Gamma = norm
Knee = auto
Matrix = norm
Skin Tone DTL = on
V Detail Freq = Thin
Progressive = off

The iris was up and down. At the beginning I had it at about 9.6.. then lower in front of the house, at 3.4 or lower, and then back at the end, it was about 8.0.

Someone help me please.
 
That doesn't look so bad, color-wise.

Unless you want the picture to be really blue, tone down the color temp. White balance to current conditions.

Try Cinelike-D for gamma, and the Cinelike matrix.

Skin tone detail does nothing for this shot.

Why progressive off? In any case, V Detail Freq means nothing in interlaced mode.
 
Also, for a shot like that try using a polarizer, it will help enrich your colours also. Especially on a sunny day like this.

I would try and keep the iris a little more open by turning the ND filter on. Try turning your chroma level and colour temp back to 0 and as DJ said manually set your white balance. You could up your maser pedal a little also say +3 or 4
 
I did manual white balance. I guess I forgot to add that. Only thing is, I WB'd in the shade because that's where I was sitting before I filmed that.

So, maybe that is why my colours aren't as vibrant as I think they should be.

Why no progressive? I don't know. The only real reason why I didn't shoot progressive is because I wanted to see how 60i looked when compressed into H.264.

So you think that CineLike D gamma and the Cinelike matrix will tone down the noise? It just aggrivates me that there's that much grain in the picture, and I'm trying to shoot in the best conditions possible.

The grain drives me nuts. I wish it were as easy to get rid of (per se) as on my TRV950.
 
The higher the detail level, the higher the apparent noise is going to be. Detail level sharpens everything, and that includes the noise. But in general, what minimizes noise is light.

You need to WB in the conditions you're shooting. It's OK if your camera is in the shade as long as the white card is where your subject is. But if you're white balancing in the shade just because that's where you're sitting, and not where you're shooting, you're most likely not going to be happy with the results.

Cinelike D will give you the most filmic gamma response. Cinelike Matrix will give you a saturated color curve.
 
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