Hello, I'm new and need some help!
I just got the BM Video Assist 4k, I read the manual, set everything up and shot with it for the first time this weekend with some friends. Setup was the Fuji XT-2 recording via HDMI to the BMVA4K in ProRes 422 at 59.94 in 1080P onto 128GB Sandisk extreme pro cards. I Shot with both Nikon adapted lenses and with Fuji lenses using manual focus, 3X checked the focus on the monitor before each shot...
My question is:
I just downloaded the footage from the shoot into Final Cut Pro X, project settings for the timeline are 1920x1080, 59.94p, ProRes 422, Stereo 48kHZ. I dropped some footage in the timeline, did a light color grade (no other editing) and exported it (Apple devices 1080P setting). I opened the exported video and... It looks really bad. The footage is very soft and not detailed, there are a lot of jaggies and pixels visible, it looks more like up-sampled footage than 1080P, clearly something went wrong... I went back to the timeline, removed the color grade, re-exported and looked at the unedited footage and it is the same, low detail, very soft, pixels and jaggies everywhere...
I've shot quite a bit of 1080P and 4K on the camera internally to memory cards with no image quality issues before, I don't believe the camera is the issue. I'm familiar with FCPX, but I'm new to the BMVA4K, so I assume I have done something wrong in setting up the BMVA4K with the camera or I've done something wrong with importing the 10 bit video footage and editing it within FCPX...
Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated, I will try to add some screen shots (captures on my 27" iMac screen) below of the exported video for visual reference. Thanks!
I just got the BM Video Assist 4k, I read the manual, set everything up and shot with it for the first time this weekend with some friends. Setup was the Fuji XT-2 recording via HDMI to the BMVA4K in ProRes 422 at 59.94 in 1080P onto 128GB Sandisk extreme pro cards. I Shot with both Nikon adapted lenses and with Fuji lenses using manual focus, 3X checked the focus on the monitor before each shot...
My question is:
I just downloaded the footage from the shoot into Final Cut Pro X, project settings for the timeline are 1920x1080, 59.94p, ProRes 422, Stereo 48kHZ. I dropped some footage in the timeline, did a light color grade (no other editing) and exported it (Apple devices 1080P setting). I opened the exported video and... It looks really bad. The footage is very soft and not detailed, there are a lot of jaggies and pixels visible, it looks more like up-sampled footage than 1080P, clearly something went wrong... I went back to the timeline, removed the color grade, re-exported and looked at the unedited footage and it is the same, low detail, very soft, pixels and jaggies everywhere...
I've shot quite a bit of 1080P and 4K on the camera internally to memory cards with no image quality issues before, I don't believe the camera is the issue. I'm familiar with FCPX, but I'm new to the BMVA4K, so I assume I have done something wrong in setting up the BMVA4K with the camera or I've done something wrong with importing the 10 bit video footage and editing it within FCPX...
Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated, I will try to add some screen shots (captures on my 27" iMac screen) below of the exported video for visual reference. Thanks!