numptydumpty
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Hi lovely people,
I am back from my holidays, though £128 lighter, as I discovered that there deffo was NOT enough space left on the internal HDD on my camcorder, so I bought a 64GB SanDisc Extreme memory card (class 10 45MB/s SDXC I) from the Dixons outlet in Heathrow, and recorded my holiday onto that. I mention this in case you decide this may/may not have influenced my results (my son in laws attempts to be honest) at minimal editing and rendering to external HD of my holiday footage.
All we did was download the footage through my laptop to my external HD, then put it through Power Director editing software. Any obvious whoopsies were taken out on the timeline, date and title were inserted at the start, and ending title to the finish...nothing else. This was an old-ish version of the P.D software which did not have the facility to render in the correct 1920x1080/50p format, which was what it was recorded in on my Pany HDC-HS900 camcorder, so when the result was rendered, there was a huge loss in picture quality.
Second attempt was on a newer version of PowerDirector (version 11 Ultra). This had the correct format, plus a 'format recorded in' sort of recognition system, which we used, which promised to automatically render the footage in the correct format that the camcorder recorded it in. The result was a huge improvement in picture quality....but with a horrible juddering effect to every single area of the video where I panned round as I recorded on my camcorder. Its bad enough to make you feel a bit strange when you watch it on my 47" Pany HD TV. I remember the same thing happening a couple of years back when I tried recording from a Sony HD camcorder onto the built-in HDD on a Sony HDD/BD disc recorder. I was eventually informed by Sony that this was because the recorder did not have the correct 'codec' to handle my footage, so we got a full refund. Now I have the same thing again
Does anyone know whether the memory card may be causing this (I doubt it, because the £128 was supposed to give me a card with full HD 1080p and so on recording handling) or whether the PowerDirector editing software 'Auto recognition' system has incorrectly analysed the format my camcorder recorded in....or may it be something else altogether?
I know the simple answer is to do it again, but this time manually enter the correct format rather than rely on 'Auto recognition' (despite the software saying that route was the best option). However, this would take my son in law several hours to achieve (embarrassing for me)...alternatively, trying to use my embryonic skills, it would take me all day...with no gurantee it would be done properly then . So...I just wondered if anyone was familiar with this sort of 'juddery panning' problem caused by editing issues? I know it is an editing issue, because it is NOT there when the footage is played direct onto the TV via the camcorder...and it was NOT there on the poor picture quality version rendered after using the older version of the same software.
I do come up with some crackers don't I ? Sorry guys, but I would love an answer on this one, if any of you would be kind enough to wade through my marathon explanation there
Cheers, Dave.
I am back from my holidays, though £128 lighter, as I discovered that there deffo was NOT enough space left on the internal HDD on my camcorder, so I bought a 64GB SanDisc Extreme memory card (class 10 45MB/s SDXC I) from the Dixons outlet in Heathrow, and recorded my holiday onto that. I mention this in case you decide this may/may not have influenced my results (my son in laws attempts to be honest) at minimal editing and rendering to external HD of my holiday footage.
All we did was download the footage through my laptop to my external HD, then put it through Power Director editing software. Any obvious whoopsies were taken out on the timeline, date and title were inserted at the start, and ending title to the finish...nothing else. This was an old-ish version of the P.D software which did not have the facility to render in the correct 1920x1080/50p format, which was what it was recorded in on my Pany HDC-HS900 camcorder, so when the result was rendered, there was a huge loss in picture quality.
Second attempt was on a newer version of PowerDirector (version 11 Ultra). This had the correct format, plus a 'format recorded in' sort of recognition system, which we used, which promised to automatically render the footage in the correct format that the camcorder recorded it in. The result was a huge improvement in picture quality....but with a horrible juddering effect to every single area of the video where I panned round as I recorded on my camcorder. Its bad enough to make you feel a bit strange when you watch it on my 47" Pany HD TV. I remember the same thing happening a couple of years back when I tried recording from a Sony HD camcorder onto the built-in HDD on a Sony HDD/BD disc recorder. I was eventually informed by Sony that this was because the recorder did not have the correct 'codec' to handle my footage, so we got a full refund. Now I have the same thing again
Does anyone know whether the memory card may be causing this (I doubt it, because the £128 was supposed to give me a card with full HD 1080p and so on recording handling) or whether the PowerDirector editing software 'Auto recognition' system has incorrectly analysed the format my camcorder recorded in....or may it be something else altogether?
I know the simple answer is to do it again, but this time manually enter the correct format rather than rely on 'Auto recognition' (despite the software saying that route was the best option). However, this would take my son in law several hours to achieve (embarrassing for me)...alternatively, trying to use my embryonic skills, it would take me all day...with no gurantee it would be done properly then . So...I just wondered if anyone was familiar with this sort of 'juddery panning' problem caused by editing issues? I know it is an editing issue, because it is NOT there when the footage is played direct onto the TV via the camcorder...and it was NOT there on the poor picture quality version rendered after using the older version of the same software.
I do come up with some crackers don't I ? Sorry guys, but I would love an answer on this one, if any of you would be kind enough to wade through my marathon explanation there
Cheers, Dave.