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Settings for Uprezzing in Compressor – GoPro 720 to 1080?
I need to uprez some GoPro footage from 1280×720 23.98 into 1920×1080 – just curious if anyone has some advice on the exact settings I would use in a custom ProRes HQ batch?
thank you
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Advanced Format Conversion – Apple ProRes (high Quality) – use the progressive or interlaced preset accordingly
Turn Frame Controls on, and set Resize Filter to Best.
That should do it…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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Thank you David!!!
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Anytime!!! Let me know how it works out when it’s done cooking in Compressor.
BTW, the Frame Controls thing (setting to Best as I mentioned) will make it take a long time to cook, but the results are usually well worth it.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Sean,
BTW, don’t forget to change the pixel dimensions appropriately, as the preset is written to pass through the current frame size.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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its set to square…is that ok?
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I meant that you should change the dimensions to 1920×1080 from 1280×720
And square is correct, so don’t change that
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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You might want to use ProRes 422 instead of HQ, as the resolution of the GoPro is not really high enough to take advantage of ProRes HQ…you’ll just get a larger file size with no discernible improvement.
You might also want to experiment with both “Better” and “Best” settings for resize. Better is much faster than Best for encoding, and is often indistinguishable In quality.
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Hello!
I thought I’d put my solution out here for anybody who is looking to actually increase their resolution in the video. Now, I understand it is impossible to increase the detail in a single frame, because data that does not exist cannot just appear magically and it is rather hard to synthesize accurately.
Here is my uprezzing technique. (It works about to about 2x resolution, and the actual detail resolution u get out of it may be between 1.3x and 1.5x)
Required Programs: Final Cut Studio 2 or 3, Neat Video Pro plugin ($99) for Final Cut (this may work with After Effects of Premiere, but I haven’t tried on them)
This technique is for upconverting video and synthesizing it to a higher resolution using FCP, Compressor, and Neat Video’s super-resolution temporal algorithms.
This will talk about upsampling 1080p footage to 4k resolution.
Open scene project in FCP 7
Click File -> Send To -> CompressorScene will open in Compressor
Render to 4k with this preset:Settings Window
Apple -> Formats -> Quicktime -> Uncompressed 10-Bit (drag this setting onto the clip)Double click the setting while it is on the clip to open it and modify:
Go to:
Encoder Tab:
File Format: Quicktime Movie
Allow Job Segmenting: ON
Video Settings: Prores 4444 (or 422 HQ), Millions of Colors +
Audio: Disabled (or Pass-through)Frame Controls Tab:
Frame Controls: On
Resize Filter: Best (Statistical Prediction)
Output Fields: Progressive
Deinterlace: Best
Adaptive Details: On
Anti-alias: 100
Details Level: 25
Rate Conversion: Best
Duration: 100% of sourceFilter’s tab: Nothing
Geometry tab:
Frame Size: Custom – 4096 by 2304
Pixel Aspect: 1.0000Click Save (lower right hand corner) and Name “4K Prores 16:9”
Now you will find this preset under Settings -> Custom in the Settings Window
Delete current settings on clip – Add “4K Prores 16:9” to the clip
Add a Destination (Settings -> Destinations -> Plus Sign to add a local destination -> choose a folder on the external drive)
Drag destination to clip
Hit Submit
Wait for clip to render out. (you can see progress under Window -> History, or in ur system queue)
Adding the Neatvideo Filter in FCP to the 4k clip:
Open up a new project in FCP
Right click on Sequence One and go to SettingsGeneral Tab:
Under Frame Size put Custom and 4096 by 2304
Pixel Aspect: Square
Editing Timebase: 23.98
Compressor: Apple Prores 4444 (or 422 HQ)
Click Advanced: Millions of Colors to Millions of Colors +Video Processing Tab:
Render 10-Bit material in High-precision YUV
Maximum White as White
Motion Filtering Quality: BestLeave all other settings.
Save Project as (scene title – 4k)Load 4k video file by dragging it into Browser Window
Place 4k video into the timelineGo to Effects in the Browser Window
Video Effects -> Stylize -> Add Noise (drag effect onto clip)Double click the clip on the timeline to open up the viewer window
go to Filters tabChange Add Noise settings:
Amount: .05
Type: Gaussian Noise
Monochrome: Off
Blend Mode: Normal
Autoanimate: On
Mix: 100Go to Effects in the Browser Window
Video Effects -> Neat Video -> Reduce Noise (drag effect onto clip)Double click the clip on the timeline to open up the viewer window
go to Filters TabSet Reduce Noise settings:
Temporal Filter Radius: 5
Temporal Filter Threshold: 50
Adaptive Filtration: ON
Mix: 100(The Temporal Filter Radius is the super-resolution algorithm and takes data from the previous 5 frames and the subsequent 5 frames to compile a higher-resolution output)
Click Options
In the top left window, click and drag a box around space that has no contrast or color change, but just noise (if you cannot find one, click Auto Profile)Click Auto Fine Tune
Leave Luma filter at 60% and Chroma at 100%.
Set sharpening to 100%Effects work is now done. Now we will export through compressor back to 2k resolution for our final print. (or we can leave it at 4k for the final print)
Click File -> Send To -> Compressor
Export in Prores format to 4k or 2k. There you go. Now you have clean, upsampled footage ready for projection.
Here are examples of this technique at work:
The first photo on the left is the 1080p file cropped around her face blown up to 200%
The second photo is 4k resolution file cropped around her face at 100% after export through compressor.
The third photo is a 4k resolution file cropped around her face at 100% after filtered with Neat Video’s temporal algorithm and noise reduced.
Technique was discovered at UW-Milwaukee Film using Educationally licensed programs, and also a professional version of Neatvideo from https://www.neatvideo.com
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