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Blocky and Pixelated footage
I have some old footage I thought I could fix with a plug-in in AE but nothing’s working. It’s really blocky/pixelated. It’s footage transfered from old vhs.
Ta Neil Adams
Film maker/videographer“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
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Magic Bullet’s deartifacter might help some.
Joey Foreman
Editor/Animator
Nowhere Productions, Athens, GA -
Always capture VHS with interlaced lines. The best res is 640×480 interlaced top field. That keeps all the quality during capture but your actual pixels are only 320×240. Your next step is upscaling which you don’t have very many options. You can try stretching footage into dvd comp size 720×480 or stay low rez like I think 352x? is smallest you can go for dvd compatibility. Another option is hd upscale from red giant software. It uses bicubic filtering with antialiasing to smooth intelligently the sides without degredation. Any good bicubic resizing like virtualdub is free but not quite as good.
VHS to blueray, oh yea!!!
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Thanks Chris! I will try the latter. Since resizing the footage hasn’t helped, color correction, compression.
Thanks again.Ta Neil Adams
Film maker/videographer“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
-James Baldwinhttps://anewbeginningproductionz.typepad.com/introduction
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