Chris Hocking
April 18th, 2006, 04:56 AM
Hi Everybody,
My brother recorded a whole lot of footage in HDV using a Sony Z1P.
It looks fantastic when viewed on a HD monitor using the component output.
It looks fantastic when viewed on a SD TV using the A/V output.
It looks very bad when you try and capture it in Standard Definition using "Final Cut Express 2" on an eMac. I have tried changing the down convert options to "SQUEEZE", "LETTER BOX" and "EDGE CROP" but they all have the same poor quality output.
(By "very bad" and "poor quality" I mean that the colours do not match what you see on the Z1P LCD/Viewfinder and there are extremely noticeable artifacts in the footage that I normally associate with "cheap quality DV footage" or low-quality videos downloaded from the Internet.)
I'm presuming either the footage actually has these "problems" when down-converted and viewed on the SD TV, except the SD TV's resolution is so poor that you cannot notice (as opposed to the eMac's screen) OR there's a problem with the down-conversion from HDV to SD.
Has anyone tried using "Final Cut Express 2" with the Z1P? Have you encountered any problems/issues?
This is the first time I've had to use FCE2 with a Z1P - normally I use FCP, but cannot for this particular project. Due to my current location, I also cannot check the footage using FCP.
Any advice you can provide me would be much appreciated.
Thank you!
Best Regards, Chris!
My brother recorded a whole lot of footage in HDV using a Sony Z1P.
It looks fantastic when viewed on a HD monitor using the component output.
It looks fantastic when viewed on a SD TV using the A/V output.
It looks very bad when you try and capture it in Standard Definition using "Final Cut Express 2" on an eMac. I have tried changing the down convert options to "SQUEEZE", "LETTER BOX" and "EDGE CROP" but they all have the same poor quality output.
(By "very bad" and "poor quality" I mean that the colours do not match what you see on the Z1P LCD/Viewfinder and there are extremely noticeable artifacts in the footage that I normally associate with "cheap quality DV footage" or low-quality videos downloaded from the Internet.)
I'm presuming either the footage actually has these "problems" when down-converted and viewed on the SD TV, except the SD TV's resolution is so poor that you cannot notice (as opposed to the eMac's screen) OR there's a problem with the down-conversion from HDV to SD.
Has anyone tried using "Final Cut Express 2" with the Z1P? Have you encountered any problems/issues?
This is the first time I've had to use FCE2 with a Z1P - normally I use FCP, but cannot for this particular project. Due to my current location, I also cannot check the footage using FCP.
Any advice you can provide me would be much appreciated.
Thank you!
Best Regards, Chris!