film

[geegad]

its absolutely nothing to do with modelling but here goes

ive just taken some film of my camcorder and the quality is shocking to say the least jvc hdd i would like to know if anybody knows of anything i could down load or any site that could use to help me if so please do tell!!!!!!!!!

many thanks for any help

john

[Guest]

Evening John I film adverts, conferences weddings etc so have a fair knowledge.

To try & help I first need to know what the problem is.

If it is out of focus. You more or less have had it. You may try sharpening. One of the difficulties is that adjusting one element causes another problem in another direction.

To dark then you have a chance by amplifying the picture. Your detail will be there to an extent. You may improve with contrast or brightness but only slightly.

If it is to light then you will be lucky to achieve anything as the detail will not be there.

So if you would describe the problem then may be able to help further.

Laurie

[geegad]

thanks laurie well to start with the picture is very grainy i dont know if that can be helped or if its just the camera

and then it seems to pixulate when i try to view it

to be fare i think the camera is a bit bad to be polite i brought the first version when it had just come out.....

many thanks if you can help

john

[Guest]

Really sorry to say John, I hate to be pessimistic, but I do not think you are going to solve this without professional help & maybe not then.

But first not sure how the film is stored. If on tape then clean the heads on the camera. Then fast wind the tape backwards & forwards. Play to see if this has helped. If it is disc make sure it is clean. If a hardrive not much you can do, perhaps try capturing it, if you have the capability, on your computer & see if the captured stuff is any better. Afraid to say after that I have run out of ideas.

If this has some success then you could try a free editing programme & see if it has effects you can apply to help the grainyness. I know from experience that it is very marginal unless you have expensive equipment such as a restoration suite.

Easy to find if it is the camera. Use a new tape or disc & record. If tape clean the heads first as this is the average problem with pixellated tape.

Laurie

[Guest]

A HDD camcorder from a manufacturer like JVC should give quality AT LEAST equivalent to MiniDV casseette standard if not better.

There are a few 'in camera' possibilities and some 'outside of camera' possibilities

Did you shoot in poor light, have a filter applied, (night mode, low light etc), Anti shake turned on, these will degrade an image immediately, in short, was there good enough light to enable a smooth framerate and settings as 'standard' on your camera as they should be by default?

Out of camera, did you download and view the RAW camera file or did you take it off camera with a piece of software which may have 'helpfully' automaticaly compressed it to be Facebook or youtube friendly? (i.e. ruined it)

If the light was good, settings standard and you're viewing the RAW file the quality won't be HD tv but should be plenty clear and decent enough to watch on a 38" tv clearly.

Like stills cameras, people get hung up on the MP count and quality, HD etc, rather than the very important part of the optics, good names like JVC will have good optics.

To give an idea of the results you can get heres a link to a video of mine taken on an old JVC Mini DV camcorder, (I use this one for reviews and onboard as it's the only one I have with an external mic socket) and it's a great little camcorder.

Bear in mind this video was captured and digitised to the pc via software THEN, compressed to suit the guidelines required by youtube at the time so the qaulity you see here is about a quarter of the quality of the out of camera to tv original file.

[geegad]

nice bike bud but as tecdes has said i think there might be a problem with the camera

but thanks very much for both your help very much appreciated

john