Tweaking the HD Video..

alstar · Post by **alstar** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:59 am

Hi Guys,

I recently purchases my first HD handycam (Cannon Legria HF 200), after shooting some scenes with that when I imported the clips on my laptop the colours were slighty off, I mean on the LCD of the colors look sharp but when I get the same clip on my laptop it just looks a litle dull.

So Video Studio to the rescue I guess, I wanted to know the best combination of video filters which should be applied to make the colors look bright and sharp, right now I am playing around with the "Auto Exposure" and the "Enchance lighting" filter.... do u guys have a recommendation for me on the filters I should use to make my video awesome!!

-A

Xyzzy2 · Post by **Xyzzy2** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:08 am

Use a player that enables tweaking image parameters .

alstar · Post by **alstar** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:26 am

Player should be fine bro.. but what about the filters in Vs??

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 5:45 pm

From my own experience, and that of quite a few others here on this Board, I suspect you might be jumping the gun a bit. Whenever I capture video, whether standard or high def, it always looks less vibrant on the computer while I am editing it. And Video Studio's preview window is particularly bad in that regard.

So I suggest you first do a bit of editing on a small amount of the video in question, without applying colour or other filters, then render it into a format you can play back on your TV, and see if it still looks washed out.

alstar · Post by **alstar** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:11 pm

Roger that Ken.. I will do that and also when I finish my shoot I will post the link here in this forum so that maybe you can judge if its the alright and I agree with you when u say I might be jumping the gun.

Lemme dig into this and be a little more patient!

By the way which handycam do u think is the best hi def (budget)?

-A

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:13 am

You already have a very good camera in the Legria... The problem is that any camera such as yours -- i.e. one that films in AVCHD -- has the current problem that most software packages have one difficulty or another dealing with it. It is such a demanding format and you have to have at least a decent Core 2 Duo to be even able to play it properly, let alone edit it.

Personally, I opted for the tried and test HDV format (and have a now somewhat older Canon Hv20). It uses the old style mini DV tape, and thus you are stuck with real time captures. But it films in high def mpeg-2, the quality is at least as good as AVCHD (though not as compact), and best of all, just about any software editing package these days has no difficulties with it.