Steven Schuldt
January 27th, 2008, 08:59 PM
Hi All,
Got an HV20 a few weeks ago. I'm only interested in shooting 24p and use JESDeInterlacer on Mac OS X for doing inverse telecine. All works great except...
I am seeing blocky square artifacts every few seconds primarily (although not exclusively) along the right edge of the frame. These are clearly visible both upon playback in-camera and after import. At first I had assumed these were because of the tape stock I was using (high end Sony HDV tapes that were about a year old) or because I had tested right from the beginning of a new tape.
I decided to try some new consumer Sony HDV tape stock this morning, but same thing. There are three possibilities: striping is mandatory, I got a bad unit, or the HV20's 24p mode compression is so crappy that huge pixellated blocks boiling across the image is considered acceptable on a $700 HDV camera (not to me, buddy, but maybe to someone). I'm going to try striping a tape next to see if that helps at all. I simply can't use footage like this, it's too distracting and would be a nightmare to try and fix in post. Massively disappointing!
Here are a couple of still images of what I'm seeing - look to right edge of frame and see big square blocks. Then imagine little swarms of these flickering randomly every few seconds:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/laikaseefeel/Blocky1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/laikaseefeel/Blocky2.jpg
Settings are 24p with cinema gamma, auto-shutter, instant auto-focus and image stabilization enabled. Help me out here folks - have I got a bad unit or is this what everyone is dealing with and, if so, is there any way to make it stop?
Got an HV20 a few weeks ago. I'm only interested in shooting 24p and use JESDeInterlacer on Mac OS X for doing inverse telecine. All works great except...
I am seeing blocky square artifacts every few seconds primarily (although not exclusively) along the right edge of the frame. These are clearly visible both upon playback in-camera and after import. At first I had assumed these were because of the tape stock I was using (high end Sony HDV tapes that were about a year old) or because I had tested right from the beginning of a new tape.
I decided to try some new consumer Sony HDV tape stock this morning, but same thing. There are three possibilities: striping is mandatory, I got a bad unit, or the HV20's 24p mode compression is so crappy that huge pixellated blocks boiling across the image is considered acceptable on a $700 HDV camera (not to me, buddy, but maybe to someone). I'm going to try striping a tape next to see if that helps at all. I simply can't use footage like this, it's too distracting and would be a nightmare to try and fix in post. Massively disappointing!
Here are a couple of still images of what I'm seeing - look to right edge of frame and see big square blocks. Then imagine little swarms of these flickering randomly every few seconds:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/laikaseefeel/Blocky1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/laikaseefeel/Blocky2.jpg
Settings are 24p with cinema gamma, auto-shutter, instant auto-focus and image stabilization enabled. Help me out here folks - have I got a bad unit or is this what everyone is dealing with and, if so, is there any way to make it stop?