Detailed footage looks great, but gradients look bad...
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:49 pm
Hello,
I've recently been cleaning up some footage for my feature and I've noticed that any image with a lot of detail (less shadow gradients) look great using NV. I basically profile then use a seeing of 60%/100%/0% sharpening.
However once I try to use NV on footage with shadows or footage with color gradients I notice that the color changes are not smooth. There becomes a distinct line separating color changes in the gradients (as if the image now only has 256 colors as opposed to millions) and banding issues. It's hard to determine what becomes most important in this situation, cleaner footage or the distracting blocking shifts in the gradients.
My footage are. mfx files from the Panasonic HVX-200 filmed in 720 24pN unprocessed prior to NV.
Any suggestions would be great. So far I've decided to only use NV on the footage with high detail and hold off on processing the other footage.
Of course I have to admit it's a royal pain in the **s having to reboot into windows from Mac whevever I need to fix a clip
Todd
I've recently been cleaning up some footage for my feature and I've noticed that any image with a lot of detail (less shadow gradients) look great using NV. I basically profile then use a seeing of 60%/100%/0% sharpening.
However once I try to use NV on footage with shadows or footage with color gradients I notice that the color changes are not smooth. There becomes a distinct line separating color changes in the gradients (as if the image now only has 256 colors as opposed to millions) and banding issues. It's hard to determine what becomes most important in this situation, cleaner footage or the distracting blocking shifts in the gradients.
My footage are. mfx files from the Panasonic HVX-200 filmed in 720 24pN unprocessed prior to NV.
Any suggestions would be great. So far I've decided to only use NV on the footage with high detail and hold off on processing the other footage.
Of course I have to admit it's a royal pain in the **s having to reboot into windows from Mac whevever I need to fix a clip
Todd