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  HD upconvert….

  Posted by Craig Ernst on April 16, 2005 at 2:24 am

  Hi,

  I have a Decklink HD PRO and I was wondering if someone could give me a detailed explanation of how to Upconvert DVCAM footage to HDCAM vis SDI.

  Thanks,
  Craig

  Adam Levine replied 21 years ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Adam Levine

  April 17, 2005 at 4:01 pm

  I prefer to do these things in AE, combustion or Commotion, as I find their scaling to be far superior to FCP. You will need to make an HD timeline/composition, put in your movie, and scale up. Also, to deal with the color issues:

  https://www.mimikri.ch/afx.html
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  Craig Ernst

  April 17, 2005 at 6:54 pm

  I really appreciate your response but I need to do this in FCP and the Decklink card has an option to do Upconvert.

  Craig
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  Dalen Quaice

  April 17, 2005 at 7:16 pm

  The Kona2 does real-time upconversion (and downconversion), but I thought the Decklink HD Pro only did downconversion. I may be missing something.
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  Adam Levine

  April 17, 2005 at 8:16 pm

  I may be missing something, but I don’t think DL does that. In any event, I believe it is sub-optimal. For example, if I were to convert an SD anamorphic program to 720P, I would export to a QT movie, bring into AE and drop it into a 24P SD comp, then use Magic Bullet to convert the frame rate. Then I would drop that comp into a 720P comp, apply Mimikri to adjust my color and render

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