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  DVX-100 4:3 blowup to HD-CAM 16:9 ?

  Posted by Pierre on February 6, 2006 at 6:37 am

  Beyond the anamorphic adaptor, what are other options for going from the DVX’s native 4:3 to HD-CAM 16:9 for blowup and digital projection for festival circuit? We’re looking for something that’s going to look GOOD.

  Thanks,

  Michael

  Noah Kadner replied 20 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Noah Kadner

  February 6, 2006 at 8:58 pm

  The in-camera 16:9 squeeze of the DVX100A and B is 30% lower quality approx than the optical adaptor. That’s about it. Anything else is software scaling from 4:3 to 16:9 and also a massive scaling up to 1080i for the HDCAM frame size. I’d recommend a nice hardware upconvert or the Algolith plugin:

  https://www.algolith.com/index.php?id=algosuite&L=0%22%20onfocus%3D%22blurLink%28this%29%3B

  Noah
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  Pierre

  February 7, 2006 at 4:10 am

  Noah-

  Thank you. I thought that was the case… Have you seen what a conversion like this looks like projected on a big screen?
  If the quality isn’t good then perhaps this project will just live in the realm of 4:3.

  Thank you,

  Michael
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  Noah Kadner

  February 7, 2006 at 4:51 am

  Depends on so many factors- quality of the original footage, how it’s corrected, how it’s upconverted, how it’s projected, etc. If you can project in the original format on a good projector that’s the best way to go.

  Noah

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