Will Thompson
August 14th, 2006, 01:02 PM
Hello everyone - I apologize in advance if there is already a post on this. I ran many searches and came up with nada.
I'm currently planning the (post editing) post production for a documentary shot on a JVC HD1 (quickly: this was a budget production that recently got more support, so we are trying to fix some things without looking tacky).
Being a consumer camera, the HD1 has built in edge enhancement that cannot be disabled. From what I understand, it is essentially a cheap unsharp-mask filter. This has resulted in many hard (or pathological) edges in many scenes that are sometimes visually garish, but mostly they trip up the mpeg compression and cause a lot of bad noise.
We are editing CineformHD intermediate, so the goal is to filter out as many problem areas now as possible, so that they do not reappear or become compounded when we compress again for DVD. We're planning on using Algolith's tools to handle all of the chroma/mosquito noise. Does anyone know how to un-filter an unsharp mask? Or at least minimize the effects?
Thanks in advance.
I'm currently planning the (post editing) post production for a documentary shot on a JVC HD1 (quickly: this was a budget production that recently got more support, so we are trying to fix some things without looking tacky).
Being a consumer camera, the HD1 has built in edge enhancement that cannot be disabled. From what I understand, it is essentially a cheap unsharp-mask filter. This has resulted in many hard (or pathological) edges in many scenes that are sometimes visually garish, but mostly they trip up the mpeg compression and cause a lot of bad noise.
We are editing CineformHD intermediate, so the goal is to filter out as many problem areas now as possible, so that they do not reappear or become compounded when we compress again for DVD. We're planning on using Algolith's tools to handle all of the chroma/mosquito noise. Does anyone know how to un-filter an unsharp mask? Or at least minimize the effects?
Thanks in advance.