Anyone used Resizer by Digital Anarchy?

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Anyone used Resizer by Digital Anarchy?

Posted by Jimmy Brunger on July 15, 2008 at 2:20 pm

I just d/loaded the demo and comparing it’s results to a simple separate fields+scale to 200% in AE they both look exactly the same!?! If anything AE’s has less ‘glitches’ in it (presumably from motion estimation?). I tried every setting in Resizer and most made no difference, so I ended up putting it to best settings and throw everything at it…30 secs of rendering 1 frame and….it looks the same is AE.

Am I doing something wrong?

Two comparison JPEGs at this link: https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&send_id=589391679&email=c14123df73513ec1c952be1b767def66

This is an interlaced SD clip in PAL resized 200% by the way.

Separate to this test, I’ve also been playing with Re:Vision FX FieldsKit Deinterlacer on this same fast bit of moving football footage and it’s not doing anything noticably different to AE separate fields.

I must have something wrong here surely!?

Thanks for any advice guys.

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Aharon Rabinowitz replied 17 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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Clint Lemaire
July 15, 2008 at 3:02 pm

I’ve used it and you’re not doing anything wrong. AE simply does a good job of up-sampling footage itself. I assume there is a good use for those algorithms but I just didn’t see any difference in upsizing SD to HD footage that was worth the added render time.
Aharon Rabinowitz
July 15, 2008 at 5:53 pm

I have to say – I tried the new Upreser from Red Giant (Magic Bullet Instant HD) and it made a huge difference. None of that upressing stuff is perfect but this is the best I’ve seen by far. You can download a trial and give it a go.

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