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Converting widescreen to standard aspect
Hello,
I am editing a show with some standard aspect footage, and some widescreen footage. I need to convert the widescreen footage to standard. What i am doing right now is going to each widescreen clip and changing the scale from 100 to 130. Unfortunately it makes the picture look a lot more pixely. I figured that this is what was going to happen when i did this. I was wondering if anybody knew a better way of converting the widescreen footage? I didn’t know if there was an effect i can add or some other property i can change. Thanks for your help.
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3 Replies
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Have you fully RENDERED the WS footage at high quality.
Are you checking the quality on an EXTERNAL VIDEO monitor.Zooming in will naturally cause a more “pixely” look, but make sure you are judging the quality accurately.
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What videoformat is your source media?
If it is in DV, here is an idea…This is a shot in the wild, but I have noticed that – at least in certain situations – to go to uncompressed from DV _can_ have some advantages, when extreme re-rendering is needed. A blowup by 133% could be a situation like that. Because you don’t get excessive degradation in the process.
That does not mean that I’m not aware that DV is DV etc, but when applaying cruel changes to the source material, I have found that this route can give better results.
Another idea – taken from photoshop sessions (have not tested this!) is to uprez the image before blowing it up. Dunno what effect this would have in fcp, thoug. In PS, going from a bad jpeg, uprez’ing, creating a TIFF, Treating and then crop’ing is often a better idea than just blow’ing up the jpeg and applying changes.
This is defenitely in the 1 cent region of suggestions… -;)
Gunleik
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I’ve had good results applying a “unsharp mask filter” to upscaled (130%) footage. Use just a little bit as too much becomes noticable. Also, I have played with the samples setting in the motion tab moving it from the default 8 to 32. Your render times will increase a lot so use this sparingly on short clips.
Jerry
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