sort of 'blur' in DV movement

[Jochem H]

Hi,

I'm doing a project in which I capture DV material (from a Canon mv150i) into premiere 6.5, Microsoft DV - 25 fps.

I´m not 100% happy with the movement in my footage - a problem that gets worse when exporting from premiere - I´ll explain.


For instance: I have a beautiful close up of a hand moving, shot from aprox 30 cm distance. When I look at this shot on the display of the camcorder, I notice fast movements get slightly ´ghosted´; as if the camera can't keep track of things altogether. Don´t know why this is - probably normal with relatively cheap equipment. It's no big problem anyway.

After capturing, working in premiere, the problem´s of course still there. However, the 'ghosting' gets worse after exporting. Fast movements are even more blurry. I've tried different codecs. I also de-intelaced exported movies after exporting - but this seems not to be the problem.


Does anybode have a clue?


Regards,


Jochem

[defaulk9]

jochem,

It sounds like you don't have a problem with either encoding or capturing. All that's left is Premiere itself. You could try capturing footage using WinDV or Windows Movie Maker to verify this.

The only other explanation I can offer is that maybe the video only appears blurrier on your display--perhaps because it's larger on a monitor, or maybe you use an lcd screen, which most of them have at least a little bit of a problem with ghosting.

[The Geek]

The only thing I can think of right now is the interlace effect. When deinterlacing using bob (like PowerDVD can do), you have these ghosting effects, these "double pictures". That's normal, and you won't see them on the TV.

The Geek