How do I optimise capture levels?
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I have recently acquired a Panasonic HS960 and I'm experimenting with different captures with the AIW 7500 on VDub. I've made some comparison captures to help me analyse differences in levels, comparing different capture workflows and/or capture settings.
I'd like to read your thoughts/analysis of the screen captures and their histograms, and what you would use for best capture. :salute: VCR Settings: EDIT: OFF COLOUR: SOFT 3D DNR: OFF TBC: ON Questions:
Note: I've set the capture to the worst-case scenario, you can see some sun spots and the dark back-stage, this is just to help me learn handling the levels without worrying if I'm going to be crushing anything from tweaking a milder scene Here are the captures: 1. VCR->AIW (No Proc Amp tweaks) Attachment 17365 2. VCR->AIW (Proc Amp tweaks) Attachment 17364 3. VCR->SONY DVDR->AIW (No Proc Amp tweaks, letting the Sony do its thing) Attachment 17367 [EDIT: Just realised that the old Sony capture below adds borders, so I cut those to make the histogram comparison fair. See new screeshot above] Attachment 17366 |
The Y represents how much of the value on the X is present in the scene (black/white, yellow/blue, cyan/red).
I've found that spikes occur when these spectra are compressed and then re-expanded, usually through processing that results in a reduced amount of data like compression, lower-accuracy digital conversion, or denoising. The areas between the spikes represent potentially absent/lost data. This could be mitigated during/post re-expansion through some smoothing process but at that point it's just interpolation and guessing. |
Thanks for your insights, Feedbucket
Re. your first point, seems the y-axis scale is relative to the peaks and not a fixed number, that's what threw me off. Seeing that large spike at the right end is probably what has caused the graph to "compress", not a lower value per se Interesting points on the spikes, noted :congrats: |
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