Hi helpers,

Here are my specs

Shot on: DVX100A in 24p mode

Editing on: Avid 5.7.2, Dual 2Ghz G5

Capturing from: DVX100A via firewire

My story:  Capturing at DV25 411 gives me a "washed out" image, lacking needed saturation and contrast. This is noticed both on the computer and my monitor.  This occurs in both a 24PNTSC or a 30iNTSC project. I'm capturing via firewire through a mojo, but get basically the same results coming in component or s-video (with a modest improvement). Also happens with higher res settings.

I searched for this issue on the boards but couldn't find an answer. Anyone know what's up? Thanks in advance for your help.

Dan

This isn't really an Avid thing. I think it may be a DV thing. 

Unless you are saying that the footage looks better captured at another res, I am going to guess there wasn't enough light on what you shot in DV. DV requires a butt-load of light to look good at any normal aperture settings. 

Thanks for the reply BLKDOG,

The problem doesn't appear to be low-light as I'm getting this throughout a wide variety of shots (interior interviews and exterior broll) with various lighting conditions (butt-load and non butt-load amounts)

Though I know it's not the best guage, the onboard monitor of the camera shows a much richer image.

Importing into FCP seems to make the problem go away.  I noticed the DVX100A wasn't on Avids list of compatable decks.  Could this be the problem

Ok. If you import to Final Cut and get a different picture, than something else is going on.

I just captured 4 hours of DV over SDI and the picture is pretty true to the original. Have you tired capturing in the Avid in a different  res?

Looking at the other options, it seems as though importing via S-Video or composite, the problem goes away. Changing the resolution (tried 1:1 MXF) doesn't have an effect.  It only happens via FW

I guess I'll do a test shooting some footage at 30i and see if something's up with the 24p communication between camera and avid.

thanks,

d

Hi,

Just updating my issue. After a bunch of tests, I'm more inclined to think that it was a shooting issue rather than an avid thing. Yes, FCP seemed to handle the footage a bit better, but from what i can tell, I had some poor settings on my 24p "scene file" on the DVX100A.  Took out too much chroma perhaps?  In any case, thanks for the help BLKDOG.