• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  pal to HD??? please someone!!!

  Posted by Paulo Marques on October 17, 2010 at 8:42 pm

  i have a footage of a movie in pal 720 × 576 MPEG-2 Video and i would like to get in my project that is 1280x 720 hd, but when i preview the footage the images looks rispid and awful??

  (i resize the movie pal in final cut pro to match my canvas)

  someone please tell me what am i doing wrong

  Thank you very much

  Andreas Karoliussen replied 15 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Andreas Karoliussen

  October 18, 2010 at 6:24 am

  Hi,
  Compressor does quite a good job upconverting, if you turn frame controls on and tweaks it a bit.

  Do a few tests on your own.
  Some combinations gave me a white frame…

  there are many tutorials out there:
  https://www.digitaljuice.com/community_forums/tm.asp?m=26143
  https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1229639
  https://www.pistolerapost2.com/shaneross/DV_to_DVCPRO_HD.mov

  Good Luck!
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  Michael Gissing

  October 18, 2010 at 7:06 am

  MPEG2 is often full of compression artifacts which just get worse when you blow the frame up. FCP doesn’t scale as nicely as Compressor so you will get a small gain with that but the limiting factor is the source material.

  I sometimes use Video Purifier to clean and scale up, but it is always a trade off between MPEG artifacts and softening or smearing the picture. Pigs ear to silk purse is still a dream
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  Paulo Marques

  October 18, 2010 at 11:46 am

  hi!!

  i use compressor, but the images of the footages are very crispy and looking rasgo and crispy… how can i get rid of this?
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  Andreas Karoliussen

  April 13, 2011 at 8:48 am

  Hi,

  What settings did you use in Compressor?

  Try anti aliasing off and detail level @ 30 or 40
  With progressiv output.

  detail at 100 gives a hard image…

  Andreas

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