• Adobe Premiere Pro

  What is the final answer on downconverting

  Posted by Sean Mcculley on December 9, 2009 at 4:24 am

  I’ve been researching the posts to determine the best way to downconvert footage.

  I have footage that was recorded on a firestore to DVCPro HD (quicktime) and footage the was shot on tape SD widescreen.

  Is my thinking correct to create an SD widescreen sequence and capture my SD footage and impot my HD footage and SCALE down – then render?

  OR do I take my HD footage and export it out as something else and import it back in to my SD widescreen time line?

  I would expect my scaled down footage to be sharper but it seems fuzzy. As far as converting it – I was pulling out my hair trying to determine what format / size / codec to use.

  Is there anyone out there that can give me a path to play with both flavors of video. The end result is going to be a SD DVD.

  Thanks!
  I have Adobe CS4, AVID and Final Cut Express on my mac if those can be of assistance.

  Alex Udell replied 16 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Vince Becquiot

  December 9, 2009 at 4:32 pm

  We usually export uncompresed or Quicktime Animation HD, bring it into a standard def After Effect composition, then export to what we need there.

  I’m not sure how it compare to some of the other solutions offered out there, but I’m happy with the results (and I’m picky).

  Vince Becquiot

  Kaptis Studios
  San Francisco – Bay Area
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  Alex Udell

  December 9, 2009 at 6:27 pm

  Vince that’s interesting…

  How do you deal with Deinterlacing?

  Alex

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