Quality of footage diffrence

Johnny thunders · #1 (**permalink**) 03-23-2005, 06:07 PM

My friend i decided that the new skate video i was editing, was going to be split up so we can both edit diffrent things. When we loaded the same footage on to our computers, the footage was alot clearer on his computer than mine. He has some dell and the monitor is from like 98. I just got an emac for christmas so i could use final cut. Ive been trying to figure out why the playback of the footage is so much clearer on his than mine. I was thinking maybe it was the graphics card, or when we capture maybe its somehow capturing on the worst quality or somehting. Has anyone else noticed this. if so, can you give me any advice?

Marc Peters · #2 (**permalink**) 03-23-2005, 06:37 PM

Using firewire?

mrlipring · #3 (**permalink**) 03-23-2005, 11:15 PM

it's not a hardware problem.

i assume they were both captured via firewire. It could be something as simple as a codec thing. Perhaps the emac's not showing the video at full quality. have you tried exporting a movie, and checking the end result's quality?

is this another bloody interlacing thing?

Johnny thunders · #4 (**permalink**) 03-23-2005, 11:50 PM

i havnt exported it yet its only been on my external. But even if i play like a dvd on my mac the quality still isnt as good if we play a dvd on his computer......... any ideas?

mrlipring · #5 (**permalink**) 03-24-2005, 01:21 AM

in what way isn't the quality as good? I think macs are sucky, but they should play dvds as well as anything else.