• Avid Media Composer

  Uprezzing SD material into an HD project

  Posted by Scott Davis on November 9, 2012 at 5:14 pm

  I have a bunch of archival QT files that are 720×486 Quicktimes. What will give me the best image quality: 1)importing into Avid as 2:1 SD then bringing into an HD timeline, 2)AMA linking and then transcoding to 1920×1080 (this messes the aspect ratio up) 3)using external software to uprezz into 1920×1080 4)ingesting into Avid as 2:1 SD, laying clips out to Beta tape and then recapturing using our Kona card to uprezz on ingest

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  Job Ter burg replied 13 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Job Ter burg

  November 9, 2012 at 7:00 pm

  If you have Boris Continuum Complete, then you can use the UpRez filter in there. Much nicer for blowups than traditional Avid scaling.

  To use it, import the SD into an HD project with the setting to not resize smaller images. This will give you a small, slightly squeezed SD frame inside a black canvas. Add Boris UpReze, set the source to NTSC SD, the destination to 1920×1080 HD, and choose a scaler type (Magic Smooth or Magic Sharp often do the trick for me).

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