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Capture and upscale DVD
Hello
I’m hoping to capture archive footage from an SD DVD and upscale it for use in an HD ProRes timeline in FCP. As far as I can tell I have a few options.
1) Use Streamclip and upscale with Compressor, although I’ve read on the COW that software upscaling can be troublesome
2) Use my Toshiba HD DVD player which upscales pretty well and run it in to the component of my MXO2. I gather from searching the COW that even though the dvd isn’t copy protected, HDCP will stop me trying to capture over HDMI.
3) Buy one of those AJA boxes that converts an HDMI or component signal to SDI and upscale it whilst capturing through the MXO 2
Any advice on what would most likely give the best looking results with the least amount of stress would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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[Dan Williams] “1) Use Streamclip and upscale with Compressor, although I’ve read on the COW that software upscaling can be troublesome”
You can up-convert with MPEG Streamclip. I did that a couple of months ago with an SD DVD and it looked pretty good. It all depends on how good the image is to start with.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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Do a test.
Try Mpeg SC
Then, Component out of DVD Player/up scaling.Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
Some of the footage is from the 70s so looks pretty grainy already.
I’ve just tried a couple of tests with Streamclip, looks okay but there are some artefacts appearing. Will try the DVD route, not in the mood for fiddling about with minute setting changes.
Thanks for your replies
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