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May 24, 2006 10:00 AM
Posted by Richard Baguley
The Quality of Sony HC3 Slow Motion Video
Posted by Richard Baguley
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So I posted a video of the HC3 slow motion video mode yesterday, and today I thought I’d post a couple of frames that show the price you pay for the slow motion video mode. Basically, in the slow motion mode, the quality takes a huge hit. This is a section of a frame captured from a video in the normal mode.
 While this is taken from a video taken in the slow motion mode.
 Click on either image to get the full frame, but both are large files (over a megabyte each). Both frames were exported in Premiere Pro 2.0, with deinterlacing enabled, then converted to JPEG images at 100% quality in Photoshop.
As you can see, the video the HC3 records in slow motion mode is a lot lower quality than in normal mode: the colors are weak and the video is extremely fuzzy.
This is presumably due to the heavy compression that the HC3 uses to squish 240 frames of high definition video into the 256MB of memory that buffers the video before it is records it to tape. And, to be fair, a still image doesn’t tell the whole story: the video is pretty smooth, so presumably the compression is tweaked towards smooth motion, which makes sense for a slow motion video mode.
But it’s worth bearing in mind that the quality is weak, and this can be a serious problem when you are splicing normal video and slow motion video together: they are going to look very, very different…
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