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Online conundrum – SD to HD?
Hello Bovines,
Just a quickie. I’ve been cutting a doc shot in SD (DigiBeta mainly) with a lot of archive film and scanned photos. The end result is, for a time, going to get a digital cinema release. They won’t, as far as I know, be doing a film print. Probably just as well…
With that in mind – any advantage to up-rezzing to HD for the online (via a BM Multibridge Pro) as opposed to uncompressed SD? Do you think I would gain anything apart from cleaner captions and subtitles?
Your thoughts, as always, are greatly appreciated…
Jason
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[Jason P] “With that in mind – any advantage to up-rezzing to HD for the online (via a BM Multibridge Pro) as opposed to uncompressed SD? Do you think I would gain anything apart from cleaner captions and subtitles?”
Your image will most likely suffer. Leave it in SD would be my opinion.
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You can up convert the video minus title’s(generic) and add the titles to the HD project. your source vid will be soft but the titles will look good.. might fool some people..
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I would stay in SD. Transcoding is always a compromise. With your final digi beta master, it might be worth uprezzing with hardware, like a Teranex or Snell & Wilcox converter. These devices do a better job of scaling up.
In the end, the rez is set by the original source. No silk purses here but a hardware uprez should get a better result than FCP scaling.
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[Michael G] “In the end, the rez is set by the original source. No silk purses here but a hardware uprez should get a better result than FCP scaling.”
Absolutely – I’d never scale in FCP, unless using a 3rd party scaler. I was more thinking of the ingest route – Kona3/IOHD or, in my case, Multibridge Pro.
Seems like the client is happy to stay SD throughout, anyway.
Thanks all,
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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