Posted by Spex on 11/22/06 16:55

Mike Kujbida wrote:
> 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
>
I didn't think we were discussing the competence of the person using the
equipment. Just the merits of down-conversion from HDV to DV at various
stages of the workflow.

A c**t with a CineAlta is still a c**t.

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