Grainy noisy capture of DVCPRO HD, please help


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Grainy noisy capture of DVCPRO HD, please help
by Andrew Smith on Jun 26, 2009 at 5:23:24 pm

Hi all,

Had a good look around and cant seem to find much about this, we have recently shot a music video on DVCPRO HD 1440 1080 25p, we used the AJ HD 1400 deck to bring the footage into FCP 6, the project was set to DVCPRO HD 50i with sequence and clips field dominance set to none.

We do not have an external HD video monitor but we are working on Dell HD LCD computer monitors.

My question and concern is that the captured clips seem to be quite grainy with a reasonable amount of noise, is this just because i am only able to look at the content through FCP 6 that shows me the video at a low proxy image or could there be an issue with the capture of the content from tape to mac?

Also running out uncompressed to Quick time the content still looks grainy, the picture quality is not that bad at all but shoot on HDX900 and was expecting flawless pictures.

Has any one else experience this or know if i am doing something wrong?

thank you for your help

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Re: Grainy noisy capture of DVCPRO HD, please help
by Dave LaRonde on Jun 26, 2009 at 5:37:59 pm

Well, let's start at the beginning: the shoot. You're absolutely sure the camera gain was off, right?

Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA

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Re: Grainy noisy capture of DVCPRO HD, please help
by Aaron Neitz on Jun 26, 2009 at 5:43:09 pm

Those can be AWFULLY noisy cameras. Especially in dark environments where, like David says, the Gain was turned on.

I just recently discovered NEAT VIDEO (thanks to the Cow). It's a great little plugin for helping calm noisy P2 footage. You can download a free demo and see it it'll help

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Re: Grainy noisy capture of DVCPRO HD, please help
by Andrew Smith on Jun 26, 2009 at 5:51:25 pm

Hi thank you for your help,

Yes the gain was definitely off.

Andy

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Re: Grainy noisy capture of DVCPRO HD, please help
by John Fishback on Jun 26, 2009 at 7:12:30 pm

Cheackout Neat Video http://www.neatvideo.com/news.html#Neat-Video-for-Final-Cut-Mac-2009-4-15
and Video Purifier http://www.innobits.com/purifier.html. I have both and both work well.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870
ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE Enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
24" TV-Logic Monitor
Final Cut Studio 2 (up to date)

Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN

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