Bright Still vs Dark Playback in the Canvas
When I have my timeline stopped, the canvas has a nice bright picture, but as soon as I press play, the brightnass drops drasticaly. This is very frusterating, and I'd like to know more about why it happens and what I can do to prevent, or at least minimise this.
Also, could someone verify that the paused image is more accurate to the source clip?
Well, typically one would see lower quality playback...and this is why:
Shane's Stock Answer #2: Blurry playback
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL NTSC MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
1. Disable overlays on the canvas
2. Make sure you've rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787
Video playback requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or NTSC monitor routed thru your camera or deck.
Shane
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I must have accidentally hit a setting b/c now after I stop playback of the footage in my timeline, the Canvas goes white and I can't see where the clip is at underneath...
Any idea what I can do to fix this?
Thanks in advance!
Message was edited by: Big MaCanadianSet the Canvas window for RGB mode. It sounds like it may have been toggled to Alpha mode.
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