Poor Video Quality?

[amtrakboy]

Hey guys,

These were rejected for poor video quality-a rejection reason that is rather vague to me. Can anyone explain?

http://www.rail-videos.net/video/rejected.php?id=10005789&key=0
http://www.rail-videos.net/video/rejected.php?id=10005791&key=0

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!! :wink:

[Joe the Photog]

First and foremost, no tripod. Big no-no in my book. Also, the train comes into view at about the :23 mark. That's 23 seconds of nothing but standing water, a barrier and empty railroad tracks. The cuts are fine and you used a dissolve between them and that's good. I didn't like the pan with the head end either. That's the biggest mistake new videographers make.

You were further away from the track than most newbies, and that's a good thing. Most folks stand five feet away from the train and pan over. Of course, they're so close that when they pan, we see a handrail or an AC during the pan.

The second video confirms my suspicision that you're not editting the front and the back of the video. The second video includes 22 seconds of pad on the front. All we see is an empty scene with audio in the background of the road crossing. At 12 seconds in, we hear the train whistle for the first time. Ten seconds later, we see it. We have short attention spans. We don't need that long before we see a train to know there's a train coming. Also, there was about 17 seconds, if memory serves me, after we last saw the train. You should cut that out too.

No tripod again, but the hand held shake sndrome is not as bad here as I have seen on other videos by other folks.

As to why the PVQ, I can't say for certain what the screeners were thijnking as this monitor is pretty sub par.


Joe

[amtrakboy]

Thanks Joe!!

I am still a bit new at videos--more experience with stills. Yet like they say, you learn by trial & error!

[amtrakboy]

Here is another one rejected for "poor video quality." I know about the no tripod issue, but I was using the "steady shot" feature of my camcorder when I shot the video--hence almost negligible camera movement. And, I have seen at least several other accepted videos on this site that exhibited very significant camera movement. Why?

http://www.rail-videos.net/video/rejected.php?id=10006379&key=677190269