Working with HDV for projection at competition. HELP PLEASE
Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:33 am
Working with HDV.
I am looking for some help. last weekend my film was entered into a competition and the images on the screen did not represent those I had seen and tested at home.
This is the editing history of the Project. What did I do wrong?
• Images filmed on my Sony HVR-Z1E/Z1P in HDV mode.
• Images down loaded into Edius 5 Editing real time HDV
• Edit. This film had been filmed over a period of 1 year and I have to admit that we had made some mistakes with our lighting meaning we had some very poorly colour matched scenes that could not be shown together with out giving the judges and the audience a very poor impression of our camera work and film making.
• I contacted a young friend who works in a professional capacity in the industry and asked for some basic tips to set me on my learning curve of colour correction.
• Over a period of six months I worked on every scene and produced a reasonable result apart from a little noise that in visual terms on screen did not really cause us concern. The film was projected at the club (HDV on HDV projector) film festival, wining both the judge’s highest points and the public prize. We did have a few comments and noticed that when projected certain scenes needed some more colour work for the next competition.
• I spent another few weeks with the improvements. Having carried out these changes I did the following tests. Down loaded on to tape in HDV (M2T) I then played the tape back through my HVR-M15E tape deck directly to my TV Screen, the results were as I hoped and as reasonable as I could expect. I also made a copy of the tape and gave it to my colleague and he looked at it on his TV using his Sony HVR-Z1E/Z1P. He also thought we had improved the results.
• When we projected the film at the area festival our images were to put bluntly terrible certain areas had lost contrast very badly spoiling the film completely.
• Other HDV films were projected and the results very good a few comments about them being a little dark but no more than is expected at every competition.
• The HDV films projected other than mine had had virtually no computer work! Africa, beautiful sun and natural colour. A few transitions and titles.
• I believe that with all the computer work I had done on the film the digital signal is perhaps weakened and that due to the distance from the projector of the source of the signal (component) and the junction box (splitter) being used. Coupled with the projector being three or so years old the signal to the projector was badly reduced.
• Ok so my film was not perfect but what to the future with AVCHD and even more tools on the computer programmes.
• I have since projected my film with another projector HDV tape deck beside the projector with a good result.
• How are we going to over come this problem in the future? What settings to we use, do we convert down. How can we test the result with out buying expensive projectors or graded monitors?
• HELP PLEASE I AM AT A LOSS
I am looking for some help. last weekend my film was entered into a competition and the images on the screen did not represent those I had seen and tested at home.
This is the editing history of the Project. What did I do wrong?
• Images filmed on my Sony HVR-Z1E/Z1P in HDV mode.
• Images down loaded into Edius 5 Editing real time HDV
• Edit. This film had been filmed over a period of 1 year and I have to admit that we had made some mistakes with our lighting meaning we had some very poorly colour matched scenes that could not be shown together with out giving the judges and the audience a very poor impression of our camera work and film making.
• I contacted a young friend who works in a professional capacity in the industry and asked for some basic tips to set me on my learning curve of colour correction.
• Over a period of six months I worked on every scene and produced a reasonable result apart from a little noise that in visual terms on screen did not really cause us concern. The film was projected at the club (HDV on HDV projector) film festival, wining both the judge’s highest points and the public prize. We did have a few comments and noticed that when projected certain scenes needed some more colour work for the next competition.
• I spent another few weeks with the improvements. Having carried out these changes I did the following tests. Down loaded on to tape in HDV (M2T) I then played the tape back through my HVR-M15E tape deck directly to my TV Screen, the results were as I hoped and as reasonable as I could expect. I also made a copy of the tape and gave it to my colleague and he looked at it on his TV using his Sony HVR-Z1E/Z1P. He also thought we had improved the results.
• When we projected the film at the area festival our images were to put bluntly terrible certain areas had lost contrast very badly spoiling the film completely.
• Other HDV films were projected and the results very good a few comments about them being a little dark but no more than is expected at every competition.
• The HDV films projected other than mine had had virtually no computer work! Africa, beautiful sun and natural colour. A few transitions and titles.
• I believe that with all the computer work I had done on the film the digital signal is perhaps weakened and that due to the distance from the projector of the source of the signal (component) and the junction box (splitter) being used. Coupled with the projector being three or so years old the signal to the projector was badly reduced.
• Ok so my film was not perfect but what to the future with AVCHD and even more tools on the computer programmes.
• I have since projected my film with another projector HDV tape deck beside the projector with a good result.
• How are we going to over come this problem in the future? What settings to we use, do we convert down. How can we test the result with out buying expensive projectors or graded monitors?
• HELP PLEASE I AM AT A LOSS