• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Purposely downgrading an image from HD to SD

  Posted by Michael Sullivan on December 31, 2011 at 5:49 pm

  Hello all,

  I am working on a makeup project shot in HD that we all think would look better if I downgraded the image to SD as you can see all the pours, blemishes, cracks in the lead models face. The amount of retouching is enormous.

  The end result will be a quicktime movie for the web

  I theorized that reducing the videos to SD would make the viewer see less than half the pixels, Trouble is, after downconverting, I’m not seeing much of a difference.

  Videos are starting at 1080p at 23.98 PRORES, 16×9

  My goal was to produce an SD mov at the proper 16×9 ratio.

  I first tried to downconvert through Compressor and that wasn’t working…then I actually made a DVD, and MACRIPPED/MPEGStreamclipped that back into a mov and other than the brightness shifting a little, there was no difference.

  Now I’m theorizing that one needs to view on a TV to see the difference.

  Can anyone point me in the right direction?

  Thanks, Mike

  Shane Ross replied 14 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Shane Ross

  December 31, 2011 at 7:15 pm

  Try plugins.

  https://straylight.tv/pluginz/

  Electronic Makeup Artist or Digital Cover up.

  Shane
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