I spent about two hours yesterday trying to figure out what was wrong with our new camera, to realize that nothing was wrong at all.
To get the whole story in, after uploading our first Youtube video we watched it to see if it actually would work, etc, before we shared it with others. The video isn't anything special, it's the first one we've put up and of course there is a long way to go with respect to video editing and such. But you have to start somewhere! After we watched the video a few times, seeing how/if things changed after it was uploaded, we both noticed that there were horizontal lines running on the screen of my computer while we watched the video. They were of course faint out of full screen, but rather visible when watching any of the videos that I had edited while in full screen.
I started doing some searching. Google searches and youtube searches revealed that perhaps the videos were/not de-interlaced. I'm no video guru so I haven't the slightest idea what that really means nor do I know how to change that. So I took to finding the how-to for FCPX and hoped to see a difference. Turns out that de-intelaced/interlaced video is not the horizontal lines I was looking for. So I still had the same issue: A horizontal line that tracked upwards on my screen.
I couldn't really find anything else referrencing these symptoms, so I was a bit at a loss for solutions. I had concluded, so far that the problems were not coming from the camera, but that perhaps FCPX or other editing softwares were causing the issues. I had even made some short videos using different settings with the camera to see if the camera had issues. Since the camera is new, I wanted to make sure it did not have a defect or something. Knowing me, I would not think of that and the warranty would run out and then I would never get it fixed!
Last thing I did, with success, was to watch the videos over the projector as well as the monitor, as I started playing with the resolution of each output. I had a thought that perhaps it could be that the resolution of the outputs were not right and thus the video was working right, but the output source couldn't handle it. This is where, if you were in the same room as me, you would have heard the sound of the biggest facepalm. The video worked flawlessly on the projector, yet still had the line on my screen. Just so you know, I run both monitor and projector from my Mac Mini as a dual screen, this is done with the one HDMI port and Thunderbolt port. Seems my problem was right in front of my face; the projector worked fine, which was running on HDMI, but the monitor was not, which was running on DVI.
The DVI monitor could not process the HD video fast enough, and thus was causing the horizontal line in the video. The projector had no issues at all. Something to do with the DVI converter connecting to my computer that was doing it! No monies involved in this solution since there was nothing technologically wrong, other than the fact that perhaps I should get a better DVI converter for my monitor.
So now I am no longer concerned about seeing that awful line on my monitor's screen and after my videos are uploaded I know that they are working just fine.
-Another great day
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