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Destination of standard def project is to be shown on HD monitor…ideas?
Hey Everyone,
First off, we are a prod company who works primarily in SD. We have a project, completely created in AFX…still images composited and animated to music. Our typical workflow in our production house is to render out of AFX to the AVID Meridien codec (Quicktime) and then go from there to Beta or DVD.
This client wants to show this project on an HD monitor he purchased for this specific project. But when played, (besides the black bars to fill in the 16:9 missing picture) the image looks very poor. The pixelization is awful!
First off, all the images were oversized and scaled down significantly to 720 x 486…does this create an issue with too much detail for SD to handle? Is that the reason for all the pixelization? I did notice that in areas of blurred detail, for example, a waterfall that had a long exposure, the blurred water looks fine, so I’m pretty sure its the detail creating the problem. Would we have luck first saving the image at the size we need…and not scaling it down so much? Or doing a blur on the comp now that it is already created?
Secondly, is there a way to export straight out from AFX to a format that could play at the native resolution of the monitor? I remember reading something about an HD monitor that could play HD Windows media files burned on a DVD.
Appreciate the help…
-Jason
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