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  1. Gday all! I am absolutely a noob on all this, so please be gentle! We went out and brought a Lumix DMC-TZ10 camera as we wanted to do some fitness 'howto' vids and pictures and it seemed like a decent product. Now when we shoot the 30s videos - they look utterly awesome on the PC (playing with different players on Win7) but **ALWAYS** look ever so slightly blurred - nothing major at all, but just definately not like the original footage. THings like the blacks are not as sharp, and edges of gym equipment are not as sharp and the colours are not as vivid - that sort of thing.

    We've used AE CS4, various conversion packages, Adobe Media Convertor even - but NOTHING seems to give us the same razor-sharp image as the original footage. We tried lossloss avi, HD MOV, H264 mp4 and cranked up all the settings on all the options to highest (we're shooting at 25fps apparently).

    Guys, if you have any tips or experience on how we can get the same footage OUT and we're putting IN, I'd be eternally grateful!!

    Nathan
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  2. played back using what? converted using what software? converted from xx to xxx @ 25 frames per second. in HD/SD/QCIF/VGA.. post some screenshots (hypersnap) or most videoplayers(snapshot).
    Its nearly always best to shoot in HD and convert down than shoot in SD.(IMO)

    tmpgenc does a good job, with the correct input filters.
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  3. hi mate - told you i was a noob!

    I'm viewing original in 4 Videosoft MTS Convertor alongside the proposed output. I use GOMplayer and WMP 12 to view the initial file and the output files. Both always look not as sharp as the original, but GOM seems to wash out the black singlet in the video far more too.

    This may be a really dumb question too, but please bear with me? When i just double click the original MTS file in WMP12, the window size auto opens and the video plays and it looks awesome. When I have converted the file and then open in WMP12 the resulting MP4 file, it auto opens the window to 1280x720 and there it looks shiite - certainly not the razor-sharp video quality it was shot with. Does that make sense too? I thought if I was shooting at 1280x720, then it would be razor on my laptop screen?

    Anyway, here are the images to do with all this for you video ninja to tell me where I am going wrong, if that's ok? Thanks HEAPS in advance guys - and again, thanks for your patience - i appreciate it a LOT!! Nathan

    First is the output file type I chose (is this the right one?)
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    Next is the settings to do with the output file (are there correct?)
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    This is the two files playign side by side - MTS original on left, proposed HD M4 on right
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    This is the original MTS playing in WMP 12
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    THis is the resulting HD MP4 playing in WMP 12
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