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  SD on HD TV

  Posted by Bob Linsdell on February 25, 2012 at 4:35 am

  I’ve been asked to transfer video on 15 three-hour VHS tapes to Blu-Ray. At some point the 720×480 29.970fps interlaced SD video has to be scaled to fit the 1080i lines of an HD TV. My question is where is the best place for this scaling to take place; at render time in Vegas to 1920x1080i AVC or leave it to the playback hardware?

  Bob Linsdell replied 14 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Rofrano

  February 26, 2012 at 2:33 am

  Personally, I would leave it to the playback hardware. Blu-ray players should scale the SD video pretty well. Any scaling you do during render will get soft so I would not leave it to the render. If you want to scale it yourself, I would do it in Vegas and add some sharpening or use a plug-in like Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) UpRez to scale the video up to HD before render.

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  Bob Linsdell

  February 26, 2012 at 2:51 am

  Thanks. I hadn’t considered the UpRez option.

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