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Watch: all the smart-asses are going to chime-in that, "well,
Digibeta IS compressed..
On Oct 26, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Shane Ross wrote:
> Well, I guess I am used to color correcting digibeta captured as 1:1
> or Uncompressed, and DVCPRO HD, and HDCAM SR...so much more latitude
> with those that when I get to HDV I feel like I have one hand tied
> behind my back. ANd no, it doesn't help that the DPs shoot with the
> odd 15fps shutter and REALLY shoot blue for night scenes.
>
> And no, the camera tech is not as important as story. But when I see
> horrid breakup like that, a LOT, and networks bitched about beta hits
> which were not nearly as bad...and the networks sees these and gives
> them a pass? Well... seems odd.
>
> But true...when the story is good, who cares what it was shot on?
> DEADLIEST CATCH seems to make it work. But that always looks like
> home video. Except for the shots of the boats on the water...but that
> isn't HDV either. Only the footage from the boats. And
> SURVIVORMAN.
> (that I haven't seen)... so who's to say?
>
> I just know that of all the formats I have worked with, this is the
> worse of the HD bunch... like DV is to SD.
>
> -shane
>
> On Oct 26, 2009, at 8:00 AM, Patrick Inhofer wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > - -
> > Patrick inhofer
> > Finisher-in-
> > Fini
> > http://fini.
> >
> >
>
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