Uprez letterboxed SD footage for DVCPRO HD use?

fellas,

I am cutting a doc where 90% of the footage is DVCPRO HD 60 at 29.97 fps.

the other 10% is SD footage shot on a DVX 100a.

two problems with the SD footage

1. Its SD and looks crappy when I keyframe it out in the DVCPRO HD timeline to match the project dimensions.

2. It looks even crappier because the B cameraman (stupidly) shot letterbox, not anamorphic. so, in essence, i am stretching the clips even further to match the dimensions.

Anyway I can make the SD stuff look a little better?

Filters? Compressor Export? etc.?

right now close-ups looks ok, wide shots pretty damn pixely.

We are finishing in HD. the other 90% looks great. But these shots are needed to finish the movie.

thanks in advance. thought i would call on the experts!

shane ross has some compressor settings that will do a decent job or you can spend $100 for instant HD from red giant. wont be perfect, but may help...

Here's another option: Employ an editing style by which you can use the SD footage in a picture-in-picture configuration, keeping it small rather than blowing it up. You can fill the remainder of the frame with a variety of technique such as background textures and graphics, logos, simple black, a blurred blow-up version of the shot itself with opacity down and/or desaturation, etc.


www.derekmok.com

Go to www.proapptips.com and sign up. Then download these droplets:

[proapptips.com]

They will take a while, but the result is darn good.


www.shanerosseditor.com

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there are 2 SD to HD apps as well.

Red Giant's "Instant HD" is one
[www.redgiantsoftware.com]

the other... i cant remember

Shane, do you now if these apps offer anything that Compressor doesn't?
(other than increased complexity)


nick

I tried Instant HDs demo, and wasn't satisfied with the results. But many others are, so I feel that I might have done something wrong. Anway, that is why I turned to Compressor. It has a very smart de-interlacer and the results are very nice.

But, as I said, it takes a while. All the upconvert options and de-interlace options are set to the best quality.


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