I'm shooting with a digital camera for the first time, a Panasonic DVX100p.
My problem regards quality loss when sending it to the computer. I use a firewire 1394, and have a decent computer. Specs:
2.5ghz
geforce4 MMX400
512 MB
I'm completely new to the whole video capture on software thing. I have Adobe Premiere 6.5, and Windows Movie Maker. I capture with Adobe. Is there a certain setting I can adjust to really up the quality? I'm not really computer smart either!
Since I'm new to the whole thing I can't distinguish whether the camera quality just isn't good, or it's how I'm capturing it, or it's my computer, possibly my camera is defective. That is why I'm nervous. I hope the camera is not defective.
Is there anything specific that I left out that you guys need to know in order to pin point my problem?
Thanks guys, I appreciate any help, and look foward to the forum!
howdy!
Check your capture settings and verify they match what you shot. Doesn't adobe have render settings and display setting which allow you to see the avi in a lower quality for the sake of speedy editing? Did you inadvertantly change your compression to something other than ms dv? What about field dominance? Did you try swaping upper and lower? You may need to read the manual for the camera to find out what you recorded it as. If the camera and computer don't match things get crappy fast. Check your frame rates too.
I'm very new to this. What is field dominance?
The quality looks mediocre. My friends camera looks just as nice, and it shouldnt even be in the same range of quality. I expected alot from this camera considering it got fairly good reviews. I know I have to be doing something wrong, or my camera is defective. It's highly unlikely that my camera is defective though. That just doesn't make sense.
I definitely had it set on ms dv.
Any ideas?
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