A friend of mine saved a long time for a Canon 5D. He takes fantastic stills on his weekend hikes. They remind me of the old National Geographic Magazine scenes of nature vistas, mountains and woods. He's now playing with the video feature of it and is very frustrated at the quality of what he gets from it. He sees all the 5D video on Vimeo and such and is very disappointed his does not look like anything those.
I asked him for a couple clips to play with using my NLEs and I have been trying different things to make them look better to no avail. I was also trying to find an inexpensive editing program for him to play with the clips and make DVDs with. Tryed Cyberlink, Corel, and Edius. It looks like this is in the files since they all show pretty much the same issue, some a "softer" image then others.
They are MOV files. He says they were recorded in 1080P. But I look at the files and they appear to be 1280X720 30fps (cannot tell if they are I or P)
Issue:
Scene; A wooded scene overlooking a roaring river. The tree branches and ground brush across the river (about twenty yards away) appear to be very pixelated. Anything diagonal has the jaggies, as if you are looking at the image through a very fine mesh screen. You see this even playing the raw files through Quicktime and Media Player. I even burned a couple formats to DVD through the NLEs to see how the playback was and they looked worse (both on PC monitor and TV). Not much better when saved as a file and played back.
I am not familiar with the 5D or it's settings and was hoping someone might have an idea where he can look to try to resolve this? Would any of the firmware updates help with this? He hasn't done any of them since he got the camera almost a year ago.
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