P.I.P. - Pan/Crop Problem

garo wrote on 8/20/2004, 11:06 PM

Now I've tried using the Picture in Picture Pan/Crop using footage from my old camera: a mini-DV Panasonic and DON'T get a thick black line that jumps around on the upper border. I turned off the Image Stabalizer function as suggested but still get the black line with my CANON XM2 footage.

Any clues anyone?

//Garo

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Spot|DSE wrote on 8/20/2004, 11:11 PM

Can you post a still somewhere?
If you mean a black line that pillar boxes, this is a trait of Canon cams. Posting an image would go a long way to helping track down the issue.

garo wrote on 8/20/2004, 11:18 PM

Hi SPOT - just reading in your book (!) pg. 262 and wonder if Track Motion would be better/different? Just a sec - here comes a still: http://www.dtours.org/still.jpg

garo wrote on 8/20/2004, 11:21 PM

- so U see the black line on the top edge? It jumps and moves too!!

:-(

:-)
//Garo

garo wrote on 8/20/2004, 11:29 PM

Just tried Track Motion instead but it doesn't aliviate (sp?) the problem - still getting a black line up there ......

//Garo

garo wrote on 8/20/2004, 11:43 PM

OK, so what I did now was to use the Drop Shadow in TM to camaflauge the stupid line and it seems to do the trick ..... wonder why the XM2 does that anyway ...

//Garo

stormstereo wrote on 8/21/2004, 12:50 AM

The black line is recorded to the tape already in the camera and will of course be captured along with the video. You could use Track Motion to place the video where you like it and then use Pan/Crop to zoom in just a little bit until the line disappears.

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Best/Tommy

garo wrote on 8/21/2004, 6:31 AM

Thanks Tommy, That worked just great -

stupid Canon XM2 !!
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Spot|DSE wrote on 8/21/2004, 6:49 AM

Garo,
Tommy nailed it there. Track motion to size the image using the full resolution of the image, pan/crop to resize it to crop unwanted areas such as the lines you see. Those lines are blanking areas that Canon inserts to remove fringe.
other cameras handle it differently. Without doing p n' p, the viewer would never see these lines. But, as soonas you resize it, they obviously become visible.