Footage shot on DigiBeta, captured into Vegas from J30 1394 (yeah probably should have used the SD Connect but I was in a hurry).
Anyway the guy who shot this stuff for us did a great job, it does pay to pay for someone whose cameras and lenses have their own names if you get my drift.
Anyway one thing I have noticed, some of the rather extreme colors like dayglow orange and perhaps the lime greens look just a bit wrong (bear in mind most of this footage is of man made stuff, the footage of natural things e.g. skin tones and foliage, is perfect ).
White balance looks perfect and the levels are spot on. I'm guessing I could pull these errant colors back with the secondary color corrector or am I likely to do more harm than good, have I just hit the limitations of DV? Normally I'd just let this slide, I'm certain the client will not even notice much less complain but everything else looks SO good.
I guess the other option would be to have this stuff graded in it's native 4:2:2 before downconversion, would that be a better path to go down. I'm suspecting we're going to get a serious bill for that kind of work.
I'm monitoring this from a DVD I made from the DV footage, going RGB from the player to the TV, but it looked much the same same before encoding. If I can I'll have a look at it on our precision monitor going SDI from the deck into the monitor, I'm suspecting It'll look much better but that doesn't really help much.
Anyway the guy who shot this stuff for us did a great job, it does pay to pay for someone whose cameras and lenses have their own names if you get my drift.
Anyway one thing I have noticed, some of the rather extreme colors like dayglow orange and perhaps the lime greens look just a bit wrong (bear in mind most of this footage is of man made stuff, the footage of natural things e.g. skin tones and foliage, is perfect ).
White balance looks perfect and the levels are spot on. I'm guessing I could pull these errant colors back with the secondary color corrector or am I likely to do more harm than good, have I just hit the limitations of DV? Normally I'd just let this slide, I'm certain the client will not even notice much less complain but everything else looks SO good.
I guess the other option would be to have this stuff graded in it's native 4:2:2 before downconversion, would that be a better path to go down. I'm suspecting we're going to get a serious bill for that kind of work.
I'm monitoring this from a DVD I made from the DV footage, going RGB from the player to the TV, but it looked much the same same before encoding. If I can I'll have a look at it on our precision monitor going SDI from the deck into the monitor, I'm suspecting It'll look much better but that doesn't really help much.