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On Oct 23, 2009, at 9:06 PM, Shane Ross wrote:
> Yeah, I am paid. But to COLOR CORRECT that footage. Very little
> latitude...can'
Shane,
It's interesting - I've CCed a few series shot on HDV, including an
ABC prime time reality-type documentary ("Hopkins").
I've found HDV to be remarkably robust. Much more latitude than DV. I
used to cringe when I'd hear an incoming project is HDV. No more. I've
become a big believer in: "It's not the format, it's the shooter."
I think what you're running up against is either a poor camera
implementation of HDV or this 15fps crap is utterly defeating the
codec. It's already long-GOP, now you're either reducing the frequency
of the GOP or introducing blurs that are particularly nasty for any
long GOP scheme to properly encode.
It doesn't trouble me so much that Discovery considers it acceptable -
since all they care about is a good story that draws eyeballs. It's
the producers and shooters who don't care enough about the quality of
their images that bothers me. While the audience may never glom onto
what exactly is wrong with the image - their peers will.
Oh well - such is the age of You Tube. One day, quality will count
again. Let's just hope it doesn't last as long as this Bear Market.
- pi
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Patrick inhofer
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