Up-Rezzing/converting from PD150/170 to HD

I recently listened to a DP Buzz episode with Michael Horton and Philip Hodgetts
(dated 7/20/06, midway through the podcast). A listener wrote in and asked how to up-scale/up-rez 16:9 PD150 footage to HD.

Michael spoke about placing the footage in a sequence set for that type of
conversion. I understand that PD150/170 footage is not HD (nor true
16:9) but is playable in 16:9 with good results.

When time allows, would you expand on that with suggested up-scaling and timeline
settings in FCP5.1, Compressor 2 and DVDSP4?

I sincerely appreciate ANY guidance, information or link direction you
can provide.

System: G5 Dual 2.0 (Ram 8G) / OS 10.4.9 / QuickTime 7.1.5 / FCP 5.1
(Universal) / Compressor 2 / DVDSP 4

Sincerely,
Dave

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Thank you Wayne. I'll definately look into that option.

Do you do any converting within FCP? Both Michael and Philip mentioned obtaining very good results from the FCP Suite of tools.

Regards,
Dave

I've done this with Compressor. We talked about this when I was on. I had to uprez some DV footage to put in my DVCPRO HD timeline. I didn't have luck with Instant HD (must have had settings wrong or something, because I hear I does good) so I used Compressor. Took a long time, but I got GREAT results.

I made Compressor Droplets available for download. Sign up at www.proapptips.com and then go to the MY DOWNLOADS section. Look for COMPRESSOR DROPLETS...they are there.


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WOW! Great tutorial Shane. Thanks!

Will these "crop" and "best" settings work if I choose other HD CODECS?

Regards,
Dave

Should. I haven't tried, but no reason why they shouldn't.


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