http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: quality - Recent Posts en Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:41:53 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-quality-dvd-video#post-74723 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:41:56 +0000 robGRAUERT 74723@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>DVD spec requires 2 streams of data - MPEG2 for video and .AC3 for audio.</p> <p>What you want to do is export a full res Master out of your editing program. Take that full res Master into dedicated encoding software, such as Adobe Media Encoder or Apple Compressor. Use that encoding software to create your MPEG2 and .AC3 files.</p> <p>In order to create good looking DVDs, you have to understand compression, specifically Long GOP compression. There's a lot to it, but plenty written on the web. After doing some research, if you have any more specific questions, feel free to come on back</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-quality-dvd-video#post-74691 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:10:28 +0000 billhansen1934 74691@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Nowcomer to video editing - How can I produce and burn the best possible quality DVDs (not AVHCDs or BDs). I can produce and burn excellent quality short videos to DVD when burning in AVCHD format, and that plays well on my desktop computer and on the flat screen TV, but it won't play on my lower powered laptop computer, which is probably similar to what friends and family have. Videos which I burn using the DVD format will play on the laptop, but they're horrible - extremely noisy, even somewhat pixelated. Adding video denoise suppresses some noise, but destroys most details. I'm using Cybelink Power Director 10 as the editing program - very happy with it.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hoping-to-start-recording-football-matches#post-74095 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:59:48 +0000 Lee Stacey 74095@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Yeah I thought about that, we do have equipment to borrow on campus but I thought maybe buying one now would set me up for things in the future for when I have left university, </p> <p>I am not fully sure how we are creating the end product yet but I believe we have to edit the video down to 2 minutes of footage, put captions over the video, include a voice over and I also have to have a recorded interview and edit it into the overall video to make it like a real news piece. I will try and find out the software available tomorrow when I am in university. </p> <p>There are 3 cameras I have found so far, just wondered what your opinions would be on them, </p> <p><a href="http://www.ankaka.com/ultra-rugged-hd-sport-camcorder-16mp-1920x108030fps-hdmi-macro_p47004.html">http://www.ankaka.com/ultra-rugged-hd-sport-camcorder-16mp-1920x108030fps-hdmi-macro_p47004.html</a> , </p> <p><a href="http://www.ankaka.com/hd-camcorder-high-definition-digital-video-camera-silver-3-inch-flip-out-lcd-screen-hd-1280x720-resolution_p713.html">http://www.ankaka.com/hd-camcorder-high-definition-digital-video-camera-silver-3-inch-flip-out-lcd-screen-hd-1280x720-resolution_p713.html</a> </p> <p>or,  <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-SD90-1920x1080p-Ready-Camcorder/dp/B004I1KPI4/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1327014861&amp;sr=1-1">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-SD90-1920x1080p-Ready-Camcorder/dp/B004I1KPI4/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1327014861&amp;sr=1-1</a></p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Lee</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hoping-to-start-recording-football-matches#post-74093 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:14:14 +0000 vid-e-o-man 74093@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Lee Stacey, the best would be free. I would check to see if there was some equipment on campus that you could borrow, maybe from the drama or some other department (the sports department might have some equipment that they use to film games or practice). I would suggest that you find a tripod to use also, this will steady your shots and give it a more professional appearance. If your team plays during daylight hours, this would give you more light to give better quality output. This is critical especially if you are using a lower end video camera. You didn't mention how you are going to produce the end product (DVD?), type of computer/software that is available for you to use. Hope this helps, some more info would give us more to work on.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hoping-to-start-recording-football-matches#post-74091 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:35:37 +0000 Lee Stacey 74091@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hello, </p> <p>Thought that this forum seemed the place to ask my question,</p> <p>I'm a trainee Sports Journalist at University at the moment and for part of my TV Production module I've been asked to make a Newsworthy TV Package,</p> <p>I was hoping to be able to record my local team Harrogate Town FC during a game but I don't have a camera so was just wondering what the best camera would be for recording the match and able to catch the goals that are scored in good quality. </p> <p>I am willing to pay upto around £150 but may go upto £350 if pushed to my limit,</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Lee</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-best-to-convert-avi-into-quicktime-dv-or-mov#post-73666 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:51:55 +0000 kenm 73666@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>If you captured it with firewire.....Just convert it from .avi dv file (720x480) to    .mov dvcpro (720x480). Keep it interlaced and you should have no generation loss... by the way they should be able to use a .avi dv file if you captured it with firewire.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-best-to-convert-avi-into-quicktime-dv-or-mov#post-73629 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:49:56 +0000 Kenkyusha 73629@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>@Awesomesauce,</p> <p>OP is on a Windows box, so no Compressor.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-best-to-convert-avi-into-quicktime-dv-or-mov#post-73621 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:06:29 +0000 awesome sauce011 73621@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Adobe media encoder is ok but compressor will give you the best result.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-best-to-convert-avi-into-quicktime-dv-or-mov#post-73620 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:43:25 +0000 Andie 73620@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>You can use a converter avi to mov , That is a professional and wonderful converter , and it easy to work . you  can follow the steps do it yourself .</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-best-to-convert-avi-into-quicktime-dv-or-mov#post-70559 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:36:54 +0000 Charles Schultz 70559@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>If you have Adobe's Media Encoder you use the drop down menu to get Quick Time format and use the compression of none. That will do the trick but the file will be huge. I just recreated a 30 second commercial and that is the format they wanted and it turned out to be 1.2 gigs.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-best-to-convert-avi-into-quicktime-dv-or-mov#post-70556 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:01:26 +0000 ltheresa47 70556@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I only know that Premiere Elements 2 is a video editing sw. Can it really be use as a converter?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/final-cut-pro-exporting-in-terrible-quality-regardless-of-settingsformat#post-68824 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:06:05 +0000 Joey Studio 68824@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I'm having a problem which may or may not have been plaguing my small studio since day one. Every video that we edit in Final Cut Pro exports in MUCH lower quality than it was when it was imported, not only that, the file size of the newly exported video is several times the size of the original. What I end up getting is a file too large for our clients to email around. We recently had a client come into our studio with a flash drive full of 15 second avi's no larger than 900 KB, he wanted a few of them edited together with simple cross fade transitions, and even a few seconds of dead space cut out. He needed them to be the highest quality possible for a powerpoint presentation he may now be unable to give. At first I exported them as Uncompressed avi's, best quality, thousands of colors, and no sound. The resulting file was not only blurrier, but now 260.5 MB!! And that one was with zero edits! The original was 803 KB and crystal clear. So after that I decided to try a few tests. We also produce a bi-weekly hour-long local television show, which looks fine on television but now I'm wondering how much better it could and should look. I've been exporting that out as a Quicktime, Apple ProRes 442 HQ, Interlaced bottom-field-first, zero filters, both compressor native and NTSC 720 X 480. I attempted this method on the client's original 803 KB with zero edits and not only did it export a completely unusable video compared to the original, but it was now 57.1 MB. What is going on here? Is Final Cut conspiring against me?</p> <p><a href="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/87/screenshotofavis.png/" rel="nofollow">http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/87/screenshotofavis.png/</a></p> <p>This was after I created a new project, made the sequence settings into Apple ProRes lt 30p under the audio/video settings in Final Cut, and exported it as the same with 'current' dimensions (it was listed as 850X637, maybe that was the original?) Although I did have to render the original avi itself once it was placed in the timeline which you shouldn't have to do if the setting is the same as the clip. I guess there's no way to know exactly what sort of avi my original file is so I can match my sequence to it? The 'more info' (to be fair im sort of used to 'properties') leaves something to be desired..</p> <p>Thanks everyone. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hdc-tm700-artifacts#post-68005 Sun, 15 May 2011 21:02:25 +0000 Dave Haynie 68005@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The TM700 is (was... sadly replaced by the TM900) a great camera. But like any any tool, knowing it helps you get your best results. </p> <p>Any camcorder using MPEG style compression (MPEG-2, AVC, etc) will have some limitations you won't have with DV models. Simple put, when you have any interframe compression (one frame dependent on subsequent or previous frames... all MPEG algorithms use this), you will absolutely be able to move the camera fast enough to pretty much destroy your video. Unlike most of the camcorders I have used, the TM700 is at least polite enough to suggest you slow down when you do move the camera too fast. </p> <p>I have used the TM700 as a "B" camera on quite a few projects (HMC40 is the "A" camera) that went to Blu-ray, internet, and DVD. You will not see the quality of the HD video on DVD... not even close.  The TM700 is shooting at full HD resolution, DVD has only 1/6th the spatial resolution. </p> <p> But you can deliver video that is as good as anything you can put on DVD... and in fact, better than any DV camcorder used for DVD (particularly NTSC DV to NTSC DVD, since DV25 in NTSC is encoded in 4:1:1 color, DVD in 4:2:0 color, so you're actually subsampling color twice on the way from realty to DVD if you use DV in-between). </p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hdc-tm700-artifacts#post-67673 Wed, 04 May 2011 19:28:44 +0000 hoverboy 67673@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I've burned several DVDs and have had consistently sharp footage.  I'm not even using higher end editing suites at the moment, simply iMovie.  The quality is excellent and shows of the footage, camera and HD tv brilliantly.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-good-enough-killing-the-film-and-video-biz#post-66565 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:10:32 +0000 Cinebasics 66565@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I think the art of cinematography is the only thing that could have declined over the years. And this is mainly due to the fact that you don't need to be an expert in film anymore. Using fixed lenses, handling 35mm, knowing lighting and filter use, all things that new filmakers don't even think about half the time. I've seen horrible footage turned into a decent movie time and time again with post production techniques. I actually just had to do that exact thing last week. This is my "good enough" video of the week. Yes, I shot the footage but without the proper lighting, or proper cameras for that matter. Sometimes you have to work within a budget that determines the "quality" of the work. <a href="http://cinebasics.tumblr.com/post/3922857846/film-coverage-teaser-for-denver-film-societys#disqus_thread" rel="nofollow">http://cinebasics.tumblr.com/post/3922857846/film-coverage-teaser-for-denver-film-societys#disqus_thread</a></p> <p>With the ability to record solid state, built in filters, automatic everything and the ability to color correct just about any lighted footage, I could say that if anything the industry has gotten much easier. Whether that means it's not as good is up to the viewer. Rarely is a movie about the image, 80% of the great films out there were about the story and the FRAMING of the image. But whether or not it was lit right, had motion blur, artifacting etc didn't really matter in the end. The only ones who see half that stuff is us! lol</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-good-enough-killing-the-film-and-video-biz#post-66152 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:49:23 +0000 composite1 66152@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p><em>"... any level of creativity or artistic capability is subjective to the<br /> extent that "whatever it takes" just might get the job done profitably...."</em></p> <p>And that's basically what I was saying when it comes to professional work (i.e. work for profit) being done. Hopefully, producers will do the best they can with what they have. This is the same conversation photographers had when the polaroid came out and again when 8mm film became available to the public, and once more with film vs digital. The 'Wal-mart Approach' isn't necessarily a bad thing because  the 'Mart' isn't trying to pass their work off as top of the line. Their hook is that it's affordable. 'Affordable' and 'Top of the Line' are two vastly different things. </p> <p>I do believe there's a certain standard for we all have to decide when a project is 'finished'. Of course there are always things which could be done to improve the final product, but there has to be a point where 'final' means finished. You'll never get a project to be perfect. You'll always notice things that could have been done better. Yet for a professional you have to decide when it's good enough to get the point across without the quality of the work causing the viewer to be negatively distracted. Even assembly line type of videos have to fall within that standard.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-good-enough-killing-the-film-and-video-biz#post-66011 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:12:10 +0000 EarlC 66011@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Not everybody wants, needs, can afford or drives a Porche or other high performance vehicle; Mercedes or Rolls or other highbrow vehicle. Even Hondas and Toyotas (well, with the exception of the recent negative stuff) get some respect. Sometimes "good enough" really is good enough.</p> <p>As has been bandied about on this thread there is a rationale for everything from artiste to starving artist, Journeyman to apprentice and down and dirty to highly polished. It takes all of us doing all kinds of "grades" of production to make various "worlds" go round. I've worked with self-proclaimed artistic geniuses and self-proclaimed "perfectionists" who spend a LOT of time developing product of diminishing returns where I can perceive no REAL difference between day 6, hour 8 and day 12 at midnight, except for more takeout boxes and crushed cans of Red Bull or Bullet or dirty coffee cups.</p> <p>Watched a recent video biography of Bruce Lee who was credited with saying, and I'm paraphrasing: you can spend so much time thinking about something that you never accomplish anything. I think the same can be said for taking "perfection" a state of mind and journey, not a reality or destination, to the Outer Limits.</p> <p>Anything, any philosophy, any level of creativity or artistic capability is subjective to the extent that "whatever it takes" just might get the job done profitably — and THAT is important to the independent video services provider, the WalMart approach project assembly line or the one-perfect-project-every-two-years artiste.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-good-enough-killing-the-film-and-video-biz#post-66009 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:00:16 +0000 composite1 66009@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Grinner,</p> <p>I've run into both kinds of clients. Those who understand that professional looking work costs money and those who just want it cheap. I can do 'scaled' work meaning that instead of HD, I can shoot it on a good 3CCD Mini-DV rig. Or instead of doing a full broadcast ready package, I can produce an online or DVD ready project. However, they're still going to have to pay more than some crap someone else would con a fresh out of the box student would charge and it will be day/night level of quality.</p> <p>What both producers and potential clients must realize is; yeah, you can do it for next to nothing. But that's what it's going to look like. The reason an average script like 'AVATAR' could bring in audiences the way it did was because of the quality of the work. Whether you saw it in 3D or 2D, the production values were par none. Now, quality really is based upon what your final output is going to be. It's where your production is going to be shown is where the quality level will count.</p> <p>If you shot your flick with a crap camera, didn't light it, didn't take time to get good sound and just slapped it together with Movie Maker or iMovie and expect it to look 'great' and people to take your work seriously after you upload it to the 'Tube... fuggedaboutit! I've seen it so many times when clients come to me with a project they know is garbage and want me to 'clean it up'. I do my best not to front on someone else's work. Sometimes though I see stuff that I want to ask, "What made you pay for this?"</p> <p>Really I think it all comes down to what as a professional you're willing to sell to your client's. Granted, most folks who read the forums won't ever do a Hollywood budget sized production. That doesn't mean you can't put forth your best efforts with what you have available. I'm not knocking amateurs at all because every working professional was a noob once. But when you get amateurs trying to pass their work off as professional when it is obviously not is where my hackles raise.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-good-enough-killing-the-film-and-video-biz#post-66001 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:53:50 +0000 Moab Man 66001@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Coming from a video hobbyist and consumer.</p> <p>I am going to break from the pack and say that it won't kill it but has definitely wounded it. For example, people don't watch TV like they used to. Younger adults get their info on the go, they want it fast and short (personally I don't believe they have the attention span). This is why IMHO video that isn't bad, and audio that isn't bad, will make the grade now a days. I mean look at what personal run of the mill HD camcorders can put out for video quality. Add a few non-gawdy transitions and for many mission is accomplished. </p> <p>I think there will remain a role for high quality professional work between businesses, but for business to Joe Consumer OK will do and they simply want the meat &amp; potato and hold the pretty dressings.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-good-enough-killing-the-film-and-video-biz#post-65984 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:09:40 +0000 PJ McConnell 65984@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I can see the point brought up, but I don't think that is the case. If you look at the past you probably only remember the good media that came out, because it was memorable! The media and history books and even your memory forget about the crappy things you've seen because they weren't memorable and not worth bringing up again. While today you can look at any category and easily pick out some bad material to criticize. I think part of the problem is that you can observe bad media today, but it's harder to observe it from yesterday.</p> <p>Another reason why I think it may seem like the quality of media is going down is because the "baby boom" of being able to share media in the last 10 years. The fact that ANYBODY can share ANYTHING means that there is a lot more amateur media being exposed to us, while in the past only the professional material was ever deemed suitable for the television waves. </p> <p>While you can always compare today's junk to yesterday's prize shows and movies, it isn't a fair comparison. Instead choose two similar objects from the past and present and instead compare those. Say the old "Star Wars" movies to the 2009 "Star Trek" movie. You don't see any "It's good enough" there. Compare 1960s commercials to todays commercials, in fact it seems like things are improving.</p> <p>Sure TV sitcoms will always be simple and full of dumb jokes, but that doesn't mean the TV industry is dying. I for one don't believe that "it's good enough" is taking over and ruining the video production business. Not yet at least. I think it just may appear that way because of the introduction of the internet and more amateur video floating around. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-good-enough-killing-the-film-and-video-biz#post-65975 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 06:42:00 +0000 grinner 65975@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Nothing feeds good businesses like bad ones, man. I have no problem with other companies justifying my rates for me. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-good-enough-killing-the-film-and-video-biz#post-65929 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:38:10 +0000 WSanford 65929@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> That was great, thanks for posting it.</p> <p>IMHO, I don't think so. I don't see a downside to going the distance. Customers, Industry, Peer's, will always judge us on a basis of quality, not how much we can put out in a day. We actually might get named something else in that regard. I know there are people that do business that way but they never seem to go anywhere with their business.</p> <p>There will always be directors out there to set the standard for what a "B" movie is by going beyond that and showing better. There will be the same in commercials and in low budget films. Even before the days of muscle cars, quality has been a means of competition between anything from the taste of a hotdog to graphics card rendering speeds.</p> <p>I say go the distance.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-good-enough-killing-the-film-and-video-biz#post-65918 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:46:59 +0000 composite1 65918@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Here's a really good audio discussion from the 'Terrance and Phillip Show' Podcast. (no southpark relation and no fart jokes) T&amp;P discuss the topic of how the quality level offered by trained film &amp; video professionals is becoming unnecessary because of lower expectations of 'quality' in digital media these days. From film to Mpeg4 and from Vinyl LP's to MP3's and more what is determined as a quality product has changed considerably. </p> <p>As those who are working pros, Intermediates looking to go pro or Hobbyists or Novices what do you think a 'quality' looking/sounding film or video is and what level of quality would you be willing to produce or buy? Should you make your final product high quality as possible or just get it to where it's good enough? What do you think good enough is? Do you think low quality films and video are ruining the film and video business by just being good enough?</p> <p><a href="http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/editingpost/video/is_good_enough_killing_our_industry/">Is Good Enough, good enough?</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hdc-tm700-artifacts#post-65644 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:11:18 +0000 edwardt53 65644@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I recently purchased a Panasonic TM700 after reading all the positive reviews.</p> <p>My question is after recording high definition video that looks great on your computer and also looks great playing directly from you camcorder to your television. Have you beenable to burn a DVD that has that same clean crisp image? I know that blu-ray would maintainhigher quality. But have you had success burning DVDs that play on standard players withoutgetting soft rather than crisp images?</p> <p>I edited some clips in Premiere Pro CS4 on my little MAC and exported it out to a quicktime .mov file.<br />I tried burning one yesterday ... the footage looks good until it is burned to DVDwhen a obvious loss of sharpness is evident. It doesn't look terrible, but it is not near as good as the original footage.<br />Have you had to deal with this yet? And if so, do you have an answer for it yet?</p> <p>Any suggestions appreciated.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-18x-tele-conversion-lens-gl-v1846u#post-64588 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:02:50 +0000 roblewis56 64588@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>sorry it came out three times</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-18x-tele-conversion-lens-gl-v1846u#post-64587 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:01:37 +0000 roblewis56 64587@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I suggest you talk to the people at B&amp;H Photo Video for a recommend lens. I did this for my Canon HF11 and I am happy with the lens they recommended. Here is a test I did.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs_xow62sQM">RAYNOX<br /> 2.2 Telephoto Conversion Lens Test</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs_xow62sQM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs_xow62sQM</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-18x-tele-conversion-lens-gl-v1846u#post-64584 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:59:24 +0000 XTR-91 64584@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p><em>"I am wondering if the 1.8 tele-converter keeps up with the quality"</em></p> <p>Yes, it should.  You just can't shoot "less than 1.8x"</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-18x-tele-conversion-lens-gl-v1846u#post-64583 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:21:11 +0000 mermaidsista 64583@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hello, Please help a newby here needing advice. Ã? I am buying the JVC HM 100 camcorder, to shoot Australian Wildlife (tree-kangaroos and platypus etc). Ã? The camera sounds perfect for what I need - lightweight, ease of use, post production, professional, etc etc, but as it only has a 10x optical zoom, I am wondering if the 1.8 tele-converter keeps up with the quality. Ã? I need it to be broadcast quality and as I'm quite new to video I need advice from those in the know. Ã? I have tried google to get any more info on this tele-converter, but can't find a thing. Ã? Please help...</p> <p>Cheers......Sandy (mermadsista)</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hdc-tm700-artifacts#post-63655 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:32:05 +0000 XTR-91 63655@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Nice to hear.  I bought the Panasonic HDC-TM700 and not once just cringed at the quality of footage recorded.  Maybe the white balance was off at times, but I've never just looked at it and cringed.</p> <p> </p> <p>p.s. set the exposure to -3.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/video-size-compared-to-quality#post-63478 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:25:03 +0000 linefly11 63478@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>@XTR-91: Thanks for the input. Not that it really matters, but all will be filmed in 1080p, not 1080i.</p> <p> </p> <p>I guess technically it would be like Re-sampling in Photoshop. I am really new to this whole HD filming thing. haha. </p>