Hi,
I have checked all previous posts both here and on Creative Cow regarding this filter. I have been experimenting with it for over 24 hours and I can't seem to get the hang of it. I am trying to use it to improve my VHS dubs printed from the timeline using my camera as the converter. A proc amp is usually used to desaturate color a little bit. I have been trying to do that using this filter, but it doesn't seem predictable.
For example, when you open the plug-in it has already whacked out the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance so there is no reference setting to go by. All attempts at returning the settings to what they were supposed to be(whatever that was)are virtually impossible to duplicate. When the plug-in opens, the preview window (external monitor)has already gone into SciFi mode so you can "preview" changes in the plug-in's effect. But the plug-in has so drasticaslly altered HSL that you are looing at an extreme mess. The histograms tell you where there is heavy contrast, etc and if it is out of broadcast specs, but nowhere does it tell you what to do with it. I have tried rendering the whole project in Broadcast colors with clamp, but there was no visual change....only a change in the histogram.
What ends up happening is that I am forced to render a loop region to check each minute adjustment which eats up endless hours collectively. I have tried other filters and when they open they don't seem to throw off the initial setting as much as the HSL filter. The sharpen filter was predictable in that it added noise to the dubs.
There is no way to see what VHS dubs will look like until you have prerendered and printed to tape and then played it back to see the bad results. If you are making small changes it can drive you crazy.
Working in DV is great, but customers aren't able to benefit from it. They are still getting crappy VHS dubs. It's the one issue no one seems to want to tackle, yet it affects many of us.
A tutorial would help:
Any articles I have seem describing ways that software can do what a proc amp can do are not descriptive enough. I would venture to say that if SF developed a Step by Step Tutorial on how to use VV3 to improve VHS dubs and spread it all over the internet it would increase sales of the software since no one else is doing it. They might buy the software just to be able to follow the step by step tutorial.
Am I overlooking something simple here with the HSL filter?
Thanks in advance.
John
I have checked all previous posts both here and on Creative Cow regarding this filter. I have been experimenting with it for over 24 hours and I can't seem to get the hang of it. I am trying to use it to improve my VHS dubs printed from the timeline using my camera as the converter. A proc amp is usually used to desaturate color a little bit. I have been trying to do that using this filter, but it doesn't seem predictable.
For example, when you open the plug-in it has already whacked out the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance so there is no reference setting to go by. All attempts at returning the settings to what they were supposed to be(whatever that was)are virtually impossible to duplicate. When the plug-in opens, the preview window (external monitor)has already gone into SciFi mode so you can "preview" changes in the plug-in's effect. But the plug-in has so drasticaslly altered HSL that you are looing at an extreme mess. The histograms tell you where there is heavy contrast, etc and if it is out of broadcast specs, but nowhere does it tell you what to do with it. I have tried rendering the whole project in Broadcast colors with clamp, but there was no visual change....only a change in the histogram.
What ends up happening is that I am forced to render a loop region to check each minute adjustment which eats up endless hours collectively. I have tried other filters and when they open they don't seem to throw off the initial setting as much as the HSL filter. The sharpen filter was predictable in that it added noise to the dubs.
There is no way to see what VHS dubs will look like until you have prerendered and printed to tape and then played it back to see the bad results. If you are making small changes it can drive you crazy.
Working in DV is great, but customers aren't able to benefit from it. They are still getting crappy VHS dubs. It's the one issue no one seems to want to tackle, yet it affects many of us.
A tutorial would help:
Any articles I have seem describing ways that software can do what a proc amp can do are not descriptive enough. I would venture to say that if SF developed a Step by Step Tutorial on how to use VV3 to improve VHS dubs and spread it all over the internet it would increase sales of the software since no one else is doing it. They might buy the software just to be able to follow the step by step tutorial.
Am I overlooking something simple here with the HSL filter?
Thanks in advance.
John