Posted by Mike Kujbida on 11/22/06 16:44

Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:37:02 +0000) it happened Spex
> <No.spam@ta.com> wrote:
>
> >If you work with DV footage throughout your workflow you really do shaft
> >yourself. The 720x480 DV stream has really only about 520x400 (if that)
> >lines of resolution at best with a colour resolution 4:1:1 for ntsc.
> >Feed that into your DVD compressor which colour samples at 4:2:0 and it
> >make mince meat of your footage. Incidentally DV PAL to SD DVD is
> >better as the use a consistent colour sampling scheme of 4:2:0.
>
> OK, I can agree with that.


While I agree that the 4:1:1 part is brutal, especially during chroma
keying, I use a JVC 550U camcorder (3 x 1/2" CCDs with an upgraded
lens) and I usually get compliments on the visual quality on my work.
Good lighting and camera work always shows through the limitations.
BTW, I've shot 2 hr. plays at my kids school with this same camera and
the resulting DVD quality has impressed me. The old saying GIGO
(garbage in , garbage out) still holds true.

Mike

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