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During transfers, I find that the image on the external monitor I use looks better in real time than the resultant video recorded to the SD card at the max quality setting. I'm using a Panasonic HDC-SD9 camcorder. So to test, I fed the camera's HDMI out through an AverMedia Live Gamer Mini and captured the video on my PC at the same time as on the SD card. I'm using OBS Studio on my PC, vs the AverMedia software, as OBS gives complete control over frame rate, quality, etc. Here's a synced up result, OBS on the left, the SD card's video on the right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpDjJpmBm_8
Both have only been flipped vertically, as this is just an encoding test. No color correction. It's subtle, but the OBS capture looks "cleaner" to me. During encoding, it appears that the camcorder adds some edge enhancement or sharpening and blows out the highlights a bit (look at the male golfer's pants).
There's some more testing I would like to try, but I think this is how I'm going to transfer films going forward.
Both have only been flipped vertically, as this is just an encoding test. No color correction. It's subtle, but the OBS capture looks "cleaner" to me. During encoding, it appears that the camcorder adds some edge enhancement or sharpening and blows out the highlights a bit (look at the male golfer's pants).
There's some more testing I would like to try, but I think this is how I'm going to transfer films going forward.
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