I have a Canon HV20 and purchased Vegas Studio 9 (9.0b, build 92 -Platinum Pro Pack) to capture and edit the footage shot with this camera. Everything appears to work fine in terms of mechanics. I can capture footage from the HV20, edit and export files based upon the Vegas projects. The problem is I have noticed the footage captured doesn't look as good as it looks when being played directly from the HV20.
I thought it was how I was exporting the file, but finally started examining the M2T files Vegas uses to capture from the HV20 and noticed the quality loss begins with these files. I've viewed the files on multiple computers, and I've even tried HDV Split to capture the HDV footage, but it just doesn't look great. The video quality of the M2T files look somewhat compressed. Almost like a slight haze over the video. It doesn't look horrible, it just does not look nearly as good as the original footage.
Is there any way to capture from my HV20 without any quality loss?
I thought it was how I was exporting the file, but finally started examining the M2T files Vegas uses to capture from the HV20 and noticed the quality loss begins with these files. I've viewed the files on multiple computers, and I've even tried HDV Split to capture the HDV footage, but it just doesn't look great. The video quality of the M2T files look somewhat compressed. Almost like a slight haze over the video. It doesn't look horrible, it just does not look nearly as good as the original footage.
Is there any way to capture from my HV20 without any quality loss?