• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Best Method For Zooming In On Frame During HD to SD Down-Conversion

  Posted by Jeff Coffman on July 11, 2008 at 11:36 pm

  I have an edited HD timeline of a concert with footage shot at 720P. One of the angles has too much head-room. I can think of two ways to accomplish zooming in on the frame roughly 30% to reframe the shot on this one angle, when I down-convert from HD to SD.

  Does anyone know which one is better, or have a better idea? It could very well be that both methods produce the best possible results since HD is so far superior to DV.

  Solution 1:

  Go in the motion tab on the HD timeline of the given angle and raise the scale to 130%. Export a FCP Quicktime of the entire finished concert. Re-Import and drop into a DV sequence.

  (Possible problem with this could be I’m exporting a loss of resolution with the scaled-up HD file. But then again, you might not be able to notice once it’s compressed by a DV timeline??)

  Solution 2:

  Drag the HD edited sequence into the DV timeline. Go into the motion tab of the given camera angle in the DV timeline and raise the scale by 30%, then re-frame. By using this method, my black bars are scaled out of the frame, thus creating an extra step of applying a matte of black bars made in photoshop (the FCP widescreen filter will not work since it would be applied to the portion of video which has been scaled out of the viewable frame).

  Any other suggestions are welcome!

  Thanks

  Jeff

  Jeff Coffman replied 17 years, 10 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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