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1280×720 from letterboxed 720 x 480
I was working a project a while ago where the client was looking for 1280×720 footage but miscomminucated that to his shooter who then provided me with letterboxed mini DV 720×480 footage. Playing it out and using the HD TV screen’s zoom feature looked like shit. Stretching the video size in FCP looked like shit. A couple of post houses ran it through conversion and compression boxes ($$$$) and it looked like shit still.
Finally I exported the the dv signal as uncompressed 4:2:2 from FCP and imported it into shake. In shake I selected only the portion of the video I wanted (in order to preserev the aspect ratio) and resized it to 1280 x 720 and then exported that as 10 bit uncompressed 4:2:2. Back in FCP edit and then mpeg2 encode out and played on a massive tv – verdict + looks great. But takes about 16 hours of rendering for 8 minutes of video.Does anyone know an easier or faster way to do this?
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I’m hearing the Kona 2 can now do this.
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Indeed it can…
Jerry
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Yes, it can, but dv still looks like dv. When dv is blown up (resized) it still looks like dv. When you up convert it, it’s very noisy. That’s at least what I found on my tests with the K2. I will be running DV50 tests shortly.
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The format you are using will always result in the following.
GIGO (garbage in, garbage out).
The client should have shot in HD if they really cared about image quality to start with.
Tony Salgado
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