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  • Can one ever “polish a turnip” ? (Improve fundamental qualities)

    Posted by David Lincoln brooks on July 6, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    I have been trying to author, for DVD purposes, an MPG which only had a video Mbit/s of 1.25.

    In preparing it for DVD format, I have the opportunity to jack the video bitrate much, much higher.

    But I have a sneaking suspicion that, while one can make things sharper and better colored in AE, there is probably little one can do to improve the basic quality of a video recorded at 1.25 Mbit/s.

    Can one ever really “polish a turnip”? ie., get less blockiness, artifacts, restore a video to a better, truer state…. if it is fundamentally limited in quality to begin with?

    The only things which matter in life are Art and Children. (Georges Seurat)

    Joey Burnham replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
  • 2 Replies
  • Joey Burnham

    July 7, 2008 at 8:50 pm

    sh*t it, sh*t out as we say here at the office.

  • Joey Burnham

    July 7, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    Hi David,
    As we say here in the office all the time. Sh*t in, sh*t out.
    No.

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