Jason J. Gullickson
June 27th, 2005, 10:40 AM
I was going to do some testing to figure this out but I thought I'd see if anyone had already done so. Also if there is already a thread on this please point me to it (I didn't have any luck searching).
We are currently shooting some dramatic works using cheap consumer mini-dv cameras (we are waiting for the right 720p camera to come along). My biggest complaint about the output from these things (or at least the only one I can't work around) is color noise. So we're thinking about shooting in B&W to eliminate this (seems obvious enough right?).
So I would imagine that this would eliminate the "mosquito" effect, but I'm wondering, if I use the B&W setting on the camera, does this happen before the compression stage and if so, should it also reduce compression-related artifact such as keystone-blocks, etc.?
Has anyone experimented with this or have any technical insight that might help us choose the best option?
If not, and if anyone is interested, I'll proceed with the tests and write up the results.
Thanks in advance;
Jason J. Gullickson
Producer
the second society
http://2soc.net
We are currently shooting some dramatic works using cheap consumer mini-dv cameras (we are waiting for the right 720p camera to come along). My biggest complaint about the output from these things (or at least the only one I can't work around) is color noise. So we're thinking about shooting in B&W to eliminate this (seems obvious enough right?).
So I would imagine that this would eliminate the "mosquito" effect, but I'm wondering, if I use the B&W setting on the camera, does this happen before the compression stage and if so, should it also reduce compression-related artifact such as keystone-blocks, etc.?
Has anyone experimented with this or have any technical insight that might help us choose the best option?
If not, and if anyone is interested, I'll proceed with the tests and write up the results.
Thanks in advance;
Jason J. Gullickson
Producer
the second society
http://2soc.net