Bad video?

Opened up my MBP this morning and this is what came up on my display. Is this the video ram? I bought this in July of 2008, would this still fall into the repair that Apple was performing for the Video problems?

also,
make sure you are NOT exporting your FCP sequences as a reference movie, but ONLY as a self contained movie.
why dont you try importing your .mov directly into DVDSP and let it encode for you, see what kind of results you obtain from that.
im sorry, but this will not be a fast and easy process, but i promise you will learn a lot in the process!
Mikey

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Still bad video quality

even is catalyst cs 5.5 two of my problems do not resolve.
bad video quality in fullscreen. i have some videos for offline view (768x576 @ 2600 kbps) but still fullscreen view is messed up, all blocky, not proper video interpolation. in vlc or any other player the flv file looks fine!
the videos also have a 4:3 ratio and show white borders in fullscreen on a 16:9 screen in letterbox, how can make the borders black?
is there any solution?

Hi
as example
Creating a PAL movie in iMovie HD 6 then import this into a NTSC iDVD project
• Works but with a losy quality
I do use JESDeinterlacer3.2.2 and let this do the PAL to NTSC conversion
Now burned as an NTSC iDVD project
• Best result possibly without buying PRO-applications for $$$$$$$
This way should work the other way around too.
Most modern PAL DVD-players can playback NTSC (if TV is old in Bl/W)
Most modern NTSC DVD-players can't playback PAL
If playbacked on a Mac PAL or NTSC is of no interest.
Yours Bengt W

Improving bad video ?

Somebody knows out there an app that is able to enhance a bad video like a 3GP for instance ?
Something smart enough that is able to do the trick and add quality by extrapolating between 2 frames or 2 lines for instance ?

You can use sharpening tools like Unsharp Mask. You can use third party up-rezzing tools to increase size with better quality.
But, realistically, given you only have a camera recording of a video screen of the CCTV, it's very unlikely you'll ever extract much meaningful detail from it. Don't believe TV shows, image enhancement is not really so advanced.
Personally, I'd just extract the best still frame of their faces you can find, then use Photoshop to zoom and enhance as much as you can with Unsharp Mask.

Bad Video in FCP Canvas Window. Normal?

When I am scrubbing through the Canvas Window, I am get lots of distorted video. I posted a couple of screen captures to my Mobile Me gallery as examples.
http://gallery.me.com/jay.sims#100398
I am running a 27" Core i5 with 8 GB of RAM and 512 MB of video RAM.
I just recently upgraded to this current iMac from a '07 24" iMac. I did not have these issues with my old iMac, so now I am worried I may have a bad video card on my hands.
I have the most recent updates to FCP 7 installed.
Any ideas?

I have posted screen captures of my Sequence settings and clip properties in the gallery I linked to above.
I do not have exact answers yet for what is happening in the Viewer window or QuickTime Player. I tried scrubbing through a clip in the View window, but FCP crashed before I could see any results. I have not fully test QuickTime player yet.
I can add that this problem only seems to occur while scrubbing. Simply playing video in the Canvas window does not yield any bad results and everything looks fine.
Also, I moved all FCP folders and media to a different drive. That did not correct the issue.
And I have discovered that once the issues occurs I cannot render any video. Attempting to render video results in the message "Error! Out of memory.", which I assume is not a good sign.

How to maintain audio continuity with segments of bad video

Anyone have any editing tricks for keeping good audio footage when there are interspersed segments of poor quality video? For example, I have 10 min of contiguous audio that I don't want to disrupt. Halfway through, however, I moved to camera to a different perspective and the time during the movement is nauseating footage of the floor. Obviously the pros using multiple cameras could simply splice in footage from another camera for the time period during which the main camera had bad video footage. I'm only using one camera, however. Any tricks for keeping the audio intact, but 'hiding' segments of bad video? fade in and out of a photograph/still image? maybe I need a good reference for video editing. thanks in advance for any/all thoughts.

Always shoot a bit of 'spare' footage at the beginning, and whenever there's an opportunity (..I know this is being wise after the event, but it may be of help for next time..) ..e.g; if it's a wedding, shoot guests arriving, or people sitting attentively, or bits of the building (..stained glass windows, etc..) ..or if it's a theatre or a play, ditto ..so you've got relevant, related bits which you can drop in during camera moves.
As Karsten and Beverly say, by using "Paste Over at Playhead" to insert extra material on top of the audio, you automatically keep the sync between picture and sound, because iMovie removes exactly the same length of original video as the length which you're "pasting in" to replace the bad footage ..thus keeping sync.
If you don't have "..a photograph/still image.." to drop in, you could always create a still from some of your video footage (put the Playhead where you want it, then use ShiftApple'S' to Create Still Frame), maybe soften it or crop it a bit so that it doesn't look exactly like a frame from the video, then do another couple of similar stills, dissolve between them, and then use that set of stills/dissolves to replace your bad footage.*
'Paste Over at Playhead' is the way to keep it in perfect sync without having to desperately calculate timings, etc..
*P.S: It's best to Export that sequence of stills-with-dissolves to QuickTime as 'Full Quality' so that it becomes one whole Clip, then re-import it, and that way you can position it exactly where you want it, without any of its separate components (stills, dissolves) coming apart, or being interpreted as individual elements.

Bad video/good audio--slideshow?

I took a video of my daughter's high school musical. The audio came out fine but the video isn't so good. I'd like to take some still photos that I have and merge them with the audio from the camera to make a slide show. Can anyone walk me through the process?

If what you want to do is have the video continue running but put photos over some of the bad video, follow these instructions from iMovie Help:
Inserting video clips or photos in a passage while maintaining running audio
You can paste a new video clip or photo over an existing clip while retaining the audio from the original clip. The video cuts away to a new picture, but you continue to hear the sound from the original clip.
To replace images in a clip while maintaining running audio:
Choose iMovie HD > Preferences, and then click General.
Select the "Extract audio when using Paste Over at Playhead" checkbox.
Select the video or photo that you want to insert.
Choose Edit > Cut or Copy.
Do one of the following:
To paste the entire video you selected in step 3, position the playhead at the first frame to be replaced. When you paste the clip, it will replace a portion of video equal to its length.
To paste over a specific segment of your movie, select the part of the video clip you want to paste over. (To learn more about selecting part of a video clip, see Related Topics below.)
If the video you're pasting is longer than the selected frame range, the excess video will not be pasted. If the video you're pasting is shorter than the selected frame range, the extra space will be filled with a color clip (or the still image, if you paste a still image).
Choose Advanced > "Paste Over at Playhead."
The audio track of the original video is retained and appears in audio track 1 of the timeline viewer.
This should give you a nice smooth movie with interspersed photos with the video.
Be patient, the extraction of the audio may take a while!
If you want to ENTIRELY replace the video and just keep the audio, you have a couple of methods.
1. Extract the audio from the entire movie. May take a while. Then, delete the video track, keeping the extracted audio track. Add your photos to the video track, adding transitions, adjusting the timing of the photos.
2. Share the audio as an AIFF file, create a slideshow in iPhoto and use the audio track as your music for the slideshow. Start by selecting 'Share' to QuickTime, then choose compress movie for 'Expert Settings.' Then 'Share' and when the next window (save exported file as) appears, go to the dropdown menu buttons. For Export: select 'Sound to AIFF' and for Use: 'Default Settings.'
Just the audio will be saved as an audio file.
Then, open a new iMovie project, choose timeline view, drag in the audio file, and add your photos. You will have to see what effect you want with transitions, timing of the photos, Ken Burns effects, etc.
If you want to be very professional and actually sync the audio to the photos in some systematic way, have a look at Karl Petersen's thorough explanation here
Good luck....sorry that the original video was not good :_(

Bad Video Ram? N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II

I noticed that in games, and in youtube videos, there would be pixellated patches that were off-color. I noticed some that were tinted red, and others tinted yellow. So I opened up GIMP's color picker and indeed there were two off-color lines of improperly tinted colors forming an x in the middle of the color picker. Because this appears to be a purely display problem, I couldn't take a screenshot of the problem, so I took a photograph of my monitor.
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/694/picture001vn.jpg
The refresh distortion makes it a bit hard to see, but there's definitely an "x" shaped distortion running through the center.
Now that I'm halfway through writing this response, however, the problem seems to have spontaneously fixed itself. It's been only a few hours after I first noticed it. I'm wondering, could it be related to some other problems I've been having? I've been having issues on and off for the past few months. For example, after reading this article, I've seen all of the problems illustrated in the first three images at least once. I've seen much fewer problems after getting brand new drivers a few months back, but I've still had problems here and there. Usually it'll work fine, but occasionally the screen will freeze for two seconds during a game, then all the textures in the game will shuffle themselves around. At this point, spiking sometimes appears, and the problems will persist until I either restart or the computer crashes.
This card is only a few months old. Am I right in thinking the video ram is defective?
Windows XP Home SP2
AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.42GHz
4GB (3.25GB) RAM
Gigabyte GA-880GMA-UD2H Motherboard

Quote from: Svet on 10-August-11, 02:47:54
Can you show how it should look to compare it to yours?
Also it could be some kind of monitor issue, have you tried with other one?
I apologize that imageshack seems to have drastically lowered the quality of my images. It does seem very hard to distinguish between what's refresh distortion from taking a photo of a computer, what's jpeg artifacts, and what's the actual issue, but I assure you the problem is still visible.
Here's how it should look
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/3350/picture003wt.jpg
Here's a copy of the original picture with the 'x' shaped lines emphasized. I have drawn arrows pointing to the problem, which manifests as two straight diagonal lines forming an 'x' across the color picker.
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/3558/linesx.jpg
I'll point out that this problem appeared to be linked to specific colors. I noticed it in both 2D images and 3D games. The photo is just there to show that with all the available colors displayed on a color picker, the problem manifested itself in a distinct pattern relative to some colors.
And no, I haven't tried it with another monitor. Like I said, the problem spontaneously fixed itself halfway through writing the original post so I couldn't test it. I'm posting here mainly because it's the third video problem I've seen so far that's been listed in this article as a symptom of bad video ram. Of course it's hard to isolate these problems because they seem to come and go. Occasionally it'll get really bad, then after a restart it'll be fine for a week or two.
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Also check cables and connections, especially if you use VGA - digital cabling shouldn't be impacted.
I'm using a DVI connector, so no VGA.
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also what PSU you use?
Antec Neo HE500 500W Supply

Bad video quality of final product when viewing on computer in full screen

It looks like a picture does when you blow it up and it's a low quality image. Everything I'm reading says the problem would be with the video capture...but I have the same bad quality when I'm viewing the menu! Around all the text on the menu, it's fuzzy and same with my video on the menu. So are my video clips in the movie itself.
I have tried playing it on Windows Media Player, the apple DVD program, and WinDVD and I get the same problem when I view it on full screen.
I assume my family will mostly be playing it on a TV. Do you think it will play properly or worse on a TV? I don't actually have a DVD player myself to test it out. Any suggestions on why this could be happening?
Thanks!

when I started using iDVD, one of the hardest adjustments for me to make was video quality on TV screen vs on computer screen. (I am used to satellite to S-Video TV and HD screens on my computer.)
My camera it a miniDV, and playback via SVideo to an Svideo TV screen is awesome.
I was sorely disappointed when I played the same tape back on the computer. It was grainy/fuzzy, etc. Same with the DVD I made.
But when I played the DVD back on the TV, the image quality was the same as when I connected the camera to the TV - crisp, sharp, video and text.
I've since burned numerous DVDs, and the result is always the same - blah on the computer, sharp on the TV.
As someone else in this thread stated, the average TV is low-res compared to the computer screen.
If I recall the spec correctly, standard NTSC is 240 line, SVideo is up to 500 line. HD is 720 line and higher...ergo an NTSC source is roughly 1/2 the resolution of the typical CPU screen, or 1/3 the resolution of low end HD screens. So yes, NTSC output on your computer screen will always be fuzzy compared to your TV screen.
I think you will likely be very pleased with the DVD when you playback on your TV.

Bad video...columns of small white dots, pixelation

Can anyone help me...i've had the apple tv for some time and now i get inconsistent video quality. Just started several months ago. white dot columns, pixilation are the problems, any suggestions?

I have the same problem with mine starting tonight, and I'm pretty sure the internal video card is going bad.
I bought mine years ago during the first few days after the ATV was released. It was running OS 3.02 as of tonight. When I "restore" it installs version 1.0, but the "dots or lines in video problem" is still seen in the menus. And after the restore it started to lock up randomly, with nothing on it, just by going through the menus.
I'm leaving it unplugged to see if the problem is over-heating, but it's not any hotter than usual.

Bad video quality

Hello,
All my podcasts have very bad quality video in iTunes. However, I use good MP4 files. Why ? Does iTunes re-encode the files ?
Thanks

Hello CONFLICCT1234 and welcome to the BlackBerry Support Community Forums.
Sorry to hear you're experiencing an issue with YouTube videos on your device.
What is your software version? Are you using Wi-Fi or the mobile network to view the videos?
Have you done a reboot by pulling the battery?
Do you encounter any error with YouTube or just the resolution seems off?
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Bad video playback in all formats

I thought it was bad Netflix streaming but I put a DVD in and the same thing!
The motion is glitchy like bad stop-motion animation.
Anyone have any ideas?

Thank you again andyBall_uk.
I have successfully run Apple Hardware Test and it returned the error code...
4SNS/1/40000001:VPOR
A Google search reveals that this is a sensor error. The "V" of VPOR indicates a voltage sensor and the "P" indicates the sensor is on the Power bus. However don't yet know what the "OR" refers to.
I have had a non operative optical disk drive for a year or more but the fault with the video only developed in the last week or two. Could the "O" in VPOR refer to the Optical drive?
By the way, I got the impression from the instructions on running the Apple Hardware Test that I had to use the internal dvd drive to run the APT program from the install disk. But this turned out to be not the case. Just put install disk ito an external drive plugged into the usb ports and use system preferences to set this drive as the start up disk.

Bad video quality with AMS and Citrix

Some clients connects to our network with vpn Citrix and get the screen presentet from Citrix.
The video quality is bad, choppy and sound out of sync.
Is it possible to set a specific quality for clients connecting with Citrix in AMS?
Do you have a best practice when using Citrix.
/Anders

Hi Drago
It is very bad situation. Toshiba with every notebook must offer functioning product and because of that offer tested drivers. Those drivers are adapted for each notebook model and also have protecting function. That means the graphic card will not be forced to run on the highest level.
As you can see with original driver you have problems playing some games. For me it is nothing unusual for mobile computers. Problem is that every modified driver is not supported and tested by notebook manufacturer. I recommend you to use tested Toshiba driver. At the end maybe you must make compromise between gaming and watching movies.
By the way: are original DVD movies also so bad while you use preinstalled WinDVD?

Bad video on Android phone,but good on iPhone

I use video on Sony xperia Z2 and Samsung Galaxy S and video quality its not the same as on iPhone.
Video quality on Z2 and Galaxy S its the same,but much lower than iPhone.I think its a skype software problem.Any oppinion ?

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Bad video quality on Atom over Internet, but not o...

I have an Asus netbook with a 1.66GHz Atom, 1GB DDR3, and XP. The video quality when in a call over the Internet is almost always bad, and Skype complains the computer is "slow". There is no virus scanner or any other garbage running that sucks up resources. I keep it lean.
So I tried using a different computer to make the call; an 8 year old Sempron laptop, also with XP and 2.2GHz or close to that. Video quality is great. So it's obviously a computer performance issue, right?
It gets stranger. I set up a video call between these two computers over my LAN (i.e. within the same house). Video quality is great on both.
The results have been similar over a span of a year or more, calling people in different parts of the country, and even dropping Wifi and using a cable.
So what causes Skype to think the computer is slow when video calling over the Internet, but not when calling another computer on the same LAN? I have a theory, but I'll hold that thought for right now.

I have been using iChat exclusively over WiFi (Airport Extreme) from my iMac, and via Ethernet and WiFi from my Powerbook. I have not had any quality issues when connecting in this manner. Connections within my local network from WiFi to WiFi, as well as to outside connections over Broadband have all been of very good quality. Now if I can just get it all working again following the upgrade to Leopard 10.5.1.
FYI: I have even used iChat AV on Tiger using DUN on my Treo650 (Sprint), which worked fine as well.

Bad Video Output -- with example

I've seen several people complain about the poor quality of the video output from FCE and this is something I've experienced myself so I'd like to find a solution. When people make these posts about quality, the usual response is that there must be some sort of user error or bad input. If that's the case, then the "correct" way to convert video remains a mystery to many of us. Let's shine some light on that dark corner...
To wit, here's a sample screen capture showing the original .MOV file from my camera on the left and the output of FCE on the right:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5215575
Clearly something went awry in the conversion process, but it's nothing I've done explicitly. Perhaps you can help me identify what did go wrong, why it went wrong, and how to avoid it in the future.
First some details.
The original input file (on the left) came from a Canon SD700-IS camera and was put through a File|Save As process in Quicktime Pro to make it a proper .MOV file. Viewing the video clip within FCE, it looks just as good as the source version.
But once I've exported the entire sequence to a file, the video looks kinda crappy -- like in the frame on the right. Part of the issue is stretching the source 640x480 to NTSC 720x480, but beyond that it looks like the compression was done very poorly. Things are just a LOT blurrier and there's very little contrast.
The bottom line is -- what are some of us just simply not seeing.
Cheers,
ALF
Powermac Dual G5 2.3Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Hopefully this helps explain my understanding better...
I'm familiar with MJPG, but the video is not MJPG when I put it into FCE. The picture on the left has already been converted by Quicktime.
While MJPG is a series of JPG images and each individual JPG image is compressed slightly (I don't do lots of compression in the camera), the point I was making is that each of these frames is a key frame. When QT or FCE or anything else converts such a file it has a WEALTH of information to use and therefore image quality shouldn't degrade.
One of the things I don't understand is the insistence that upsampling is occurring. While FCE may indeed be upsampling, it SHOULD NOT BE because I've centered the input video within the 720x480 DV frame. No scaling need occur.
This is akin to making something smaller than 720x480 in After Effects, for example, and importing to FCE as an overlay for something. There should be no quality degradtion because that's not being scaled to 720x480 either -- it's just a small part of the screen.
There also isn't an issue with frame rate because, as I mentioned, the source video is 30fps. Any suggestion otherwise is assuming 15fps for the source video, which is incorrect.
The only thing that leaves as a factor is interlacing -- the source video is most certainly not interlaced. So as I understand things right now, the loss in video quality I've seen is due to artifacts introduced by interlacing and delta-compression. Because I've seen lots of example of delta compression which don't look this bad, I'm hoping there's some way I can tweak the amount of compression or something. Not much I can do about interlacing, though.
As to the camcorder issue, the reason I said it's not germane is because it's the data that's important rather than where it came from. I could just as easily get a 640x480 Quicktime, AVI, or MPEG file as source and see the same type of degradation (I've done it).
The problem is how FCE treats 640x480 (or anything less than 720x480) video. By default it does indeed upscale to fill the full DV frame. But it also provides the ability to drop smaller video onto part of the frame as well as the ability to scale video within the frame.
So if FCE is putting my 640x480 video through a scaling process to place it as a centered 640x480 image in the 720x480 frame, and scaling that again for DVD out put, then yeah I can see where degradation would occur. I just don't believe it should be doing that first scaling.
I also don't understand why interlacing would cause so much degradation, but as has been said it could be the combination of that and the (unnecessary) scaling.
ALF

Bad video=Bad logic board in new iMac?

Just had 2 less than fruitful phone call with Apple; my one month old imac has suddenly developed horrible video problems. (pixelated screen, messed up images, missing info/icons from desktop)
Apparently the logic board is bad and needs to be replaced. Our local mac shop is with the university and is closed until January 17, so we are without the computer until then?
We can't send it in, and the other nearest store is 150 miles away.
Tech people said they've been hearing this... but I thought the problem was resolved before this new line came out? Plus no support for a month?
Sorry quite frustrated by the non-options right now. Is anyone else in the same boat or familiar with this situation? Thanks.
iMac G5 isight Mac OS X (10.4.3)

I received my isight mid-November and within a couple of hours, my screen started having problems. Required new logic board. Logic board installed by my local Apple store. Haven't had a problem since -- perfectly quiet too!
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