http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: video quality - Recent Posts en Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:21:01 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/dslr-cameras-that-has-the-best-video-quality#post-70977 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:06:19 +0000 Bill Bruner 70977@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>If you want the best moire-free video quality less than $2000, you want the (hacked or unhacked) Panasonic GH2.</p> <p> </p> <p>Good luck with your decision,</p> <p>Bill</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://hybridcamerarevolution.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://hybridcamerarevolution.blogspot.com</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/dslr-cameras-that-has-the-best-video-quality#post-70969 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 07:47:10 +0000 tunguy 70969@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>&nbsp;Should he not be looking at a Sony NEX vg10 or 20? For $2000 he gets the DSLR sensor with interchangeable lenses, better sound (especially if he ads an external mike or a beachtek with ext mike),image stabilisation etc?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/dslr-cameras-that-has-the-best-video-quality#post-70868 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:38:24 +0000 composite1 70868@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>What you should be asking is what DSLR with the basic accessories I need to shoot a music video with a $2k budget should I look at? To get a reasonable amount of the potential of a DSLR's video capacity you're going to need more than just a camera. Two good prime lenses (or a fast zoom), A mattebox w/rails (or at the least a good lens hood. A filter kit w/ a UV haze, a couple of ND's (2 &amp; 4) and maybe a polarizer, a decent tripod (no wal-mart specials) with at least a ball-head mount, extra batteries (at minimum 4 extra), camera bag (that will hold most of your accessories), Fast CF or SD Flash media cards (class 4 or better, 8GB or larger capacity. *Note; smaller cards mean you'll need more to keep up with shooting) and a secondary viewfinder if not a small camera mountable monitor. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/dslr-cameras-that-has-the-best-video-quality#post-70862 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:38:29 +0000 grinner 70862@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> surf ebay for a 5D mII</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/dslr-cameras-that-has-the-best-video-quality#post-70859 Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:56:48 +0000 adeoye 70859@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>hello,am a musician also a film editor i need a dslr camera with the best video quality specially for music video within this price rage $2000.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/what-happened-to-my-video-quality#post-70298 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:32:23 +0000 Charles Schultz 70298@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Looks like there may be a problem with the recording head; it could just be really dirty or out of adjustment. See if you have a local video store that does repairs and see what they say and how much it would cost to fix.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/what-happened-to-my-video-quality#post-70297 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:04:41 +0000 Panzram 70297@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have recently started filming local live punk shows and I have many long term plans with videography. I'm still very much new to this and I don't really know what I'm doing.</p> <p>The camera I'm using is a &lt;span style="font-size: 1.1em; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sony-CCD-TRV138-Handycam-Camcorder-Optical/dp/B0007M3PJ4/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top">Sony CCD-TRV138 Hi8 Handycam</a>. It's at least a year old, I essentially got it as a gift and I don't really know how much it was used beforehand. It's been through some wear over the course of a year (in the worst case, a drunken idiot about smashed the camcorder) but was not used frequently for much of the time, I've only been able to convert two tapes to digital so far. Unfortunately the last tape I recorded was of considerably poorer quality, it seemed fine in the playback on the camcorder, I used a hi8 tape that had just been purchased, and I took it to a local business to get it converted. The video quality is much more distorted now.</p> <p>I have a feeling I'm going to need to invest in a new camera somewhere down the line eventually, most of my peers seem to like the "old school" vibe from these hi8 tapes and say that the audio quality is much better than most digital recordings that they're used to. Most of the digital cameras I've looked at seem like they'd break into pieces if I sneezed on them as well, and if you watch the videos you'll be able to tell that that's a bit of a problem in the environment I'm recording in.</p> <p>Here are two examples of footage I'm talking about. The first video was taken about a year before the second one, and I used to the same business to get it converted. As you can tell the quality in the second video is much more distorted. Before I could record the second video I had to use a cleaning tape. What exactly is the distortion in the second video and what could be causing it? Is the problem from the camera or the conversion? Will I probably need to find a new camcorder?</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo1_ycxWol0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo1_ycxWol0</a></p> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/27851057" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/27851057</a></p> <p>(disregard the description of the second video, it's a joke if it isn't obvious, the recording took place very recently)</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/improving-video-quality-with-premiere-elements-80#post-56877 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:45:46 +0000 some_person 56877@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>&lt;p class="content"&gt;How do I improve a video's quality through Premiere Elements 8.0? By that, I mean make the entire video look sharper. On my camcorder, the video looks alright, but when I upload it into Elements, it becomes blurry. I tried adding a Sharpen video effect, and when I rendered the video, I changed the size to 640x480 (from 320x240), increased its quality, and had the MPEG-4 setting. While this did improve the quality, some parts are still noticeably blurry. Any suggestions on how to further improve the video quality? Thanks. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-video-quality#post-51980 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:32:00 +0000 Jaimie 51980@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Dane,</p> <p>All of the suggestions so far are good, but you would gain more information by describing in what way your video quality is "poor".  Are the pictures blurry or is the color unsaturated?  Do the images jump or freeze?  does it lose lip sync?  </p> <p>Is everything bad all the time or do you sometimes get good quality?</p> <p> </p> <p>A little more detail will get you a better answer.</p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>Jaimie Charlton</p> <p>Images and Motion</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-video-quality#post-51882 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:40:03 +0000 composite1 51882@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p><em>"I'd also have to go against part of what you said on the 'capabilities of the computer'."</em></p> <p>XTR,</p> <p>I thought the 'computer not spec'd out for HD' line clarified that. Pardon me for not making my line of thought clearer.</p> <p> If you are working strictly in SD DV then the scenario you mentioned would apply. Trying to use the same systems to work with HD will result in the celeron maybe capturing one or two short clips before it crashes the system and being unable to edit the footage after a reboot. The dual-core would have no problem working with HD. Having a system crash in the middle of capture and being incapable of working with any surviving footage would constitute a serious 'quality issue' in my book.</p> <p>Also, the better your computer's capabilities the better it will be able to handle footage during capture, editing and export. A system that bogs down during those processes can introduce errors into the footage and force you to use lower compression rates than you'd want to use just to get out product. If your system can't handle working with uncompressed video in DV (fugeddabout HD), you're going to have 'quality issues'. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-video-quality#post-51862 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:14:29 +0000 XTR-91 51862@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p><em>"The 'quality' of your exported video depends on the capacity of the software you're using and the capabilities of the computer you use to encode the video output"</em></p> <p>For the most part, I agree with you on the factors that affect the resulting quality. I'd also have to go against part of what you said on the 'capabilities of the computer'. Let's say we're importing (copying) the same video from the same camcorder, and using the same conversion software (i.e. AVS Video Converter) - and just to add, the same format with the same video settings. If identical conversions were made on an Intel Celeron PC (1.33 GHz) and a Dual Core (4.2 GHz), there should be no resulting difference in quality.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-video-quality#post-51838 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:17:30 +0000 composite1 51838@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Dane,</p> <p>The 'quality' of your exported video depends on the capacity of the software you're using and the capabilities of the computer you use to encode the video output (i.e. consumer level software will not have the same capacity as pro and a computer not spec'd for HD won't be able to work in that format.) As the others have mentioned factors that contribute to video quality are; video format and video compression settings. Another important factor is how you're outputting the finished video. If you're going to tape are you doing it through firewire or a dedicated video card? Also, the quality of video is directly affected by how it was shot. If it wasn't shot well there's not much you can do with it in post. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-video-quality#post-51836 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:44:05 +0000 XTR-91 51836@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The performance of your computer may hinder the quality of preview, but should not affect the resulting quality after the rendering process. Have you converted anything before editing?</p> <p>As some people don't realize, converting MPEG-2 to MPEG-1 decreases file size and compatibility, but will compromise quality. I'd even have to complement web formats such as WMV and H.264 as looking better MPEG-1.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-video-quality#post-51832 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:54:38 +0000 grinner 51832@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> or by how fast your PC is. RAM has nothing to do with image quality. </p> <p>Ensure you are capturing at full rez (720 X 480 if capturing standard Def DV) and check your cmpression settings to make sure you are not compressing it more than it already is (assuing you shot DV) You can bring it in as a clone (DV25) and not lose any quality at all.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-video-quality#post-51831 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:11:30 +0000 robGRAUERT 51831@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>um...what video format are you editing? What has your workflow been so far? What are you looking at when you say your video has poor quality - you should not be judging based on what's on your computer screen. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-video-quality#post-51821 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:44:04 +0000 Dane 51821@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have just upgraded my pc to a Intel dual core with 2GB ram. But I still seem to get poor quality. I am using Magix Movie Edit Pro 12. What pc specs do I need for good quality production? I am talking about clear picture? Help!!!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/what-is-the-best-quality-save-option-with-corel-video-studio-pro-x2#post-46186 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:33:26 +0000 SidneyMyers 46186@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I got to know a previous version of uleads video studio prior to getting pro X2.  I always saved my videos using the DV format.  I assumed this was the best quality file out of all the options.</p> <p>Now with Pro X2 there are so many other choices I got to wondering, What is the best quality choice for rendering videos so I can save the finished product on a portable Hard Drive?</p> <p>Thanks</p>