> But > how many of those who use DSLRs as their video source pay attention to the > automatically picked ISO level, which has a huge impact on the noisiness of > the image? (Well, I do.)
You allow your DSLR to choose automatically? I run every setting manual *period* :-) > So I think that the bottom line is each one to his > (or her) own source quality, and even more important, destination quality. > If either isn't necessarily high, transcoding is no big deal, and makes life > easier. > > If the target is a video in Youtube, quality may not be such an issue. If > it's for national TV, that's a different story. Yes, that's a good take. There are plenty of people who've read this thread and don't know anything about most of what we've talked about; they're thinking "but it always looked ok I guess." These folks should probably continue not to worry about it. But anyone who's noticed things like... "Why is it getting noisier each time I work on it? Why are the colors shifting? Why did it get fuzzier? Why are all the colors shifted left half a pixel? or a whole pixel? Why did it get washed out when i exported it? Why does it keep getting brighter (or darker) when I don't think I changed anything? Why is there all this color banding in the output? Why are the dark colors blocky/noisy?" and so one and so forth should start asking, because there are good answers. ...and if you're doing any of this professionally and anything in this thread made you say 'huh?' you definitely need to get a little pickier about the details ASAP :-) The world has too many mediocre 'professionals' already, and most of them will do a better job of muddling through haphazardly in Final Cut or Premiere. Monty _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
