• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Does HD footage deteriote when scaled down to fit in an SD timeline/

  Posted by Phil Doherty on October 14, 2009 at 9:33 am

  Hi There,

  This is very much related to a previous query I had and is a bit of an emergency as I have a deadline in a few hours,

  The question is is does HD footage deterioate when scaled down to fit in an sd sequence? To my I eyes, looking off a computer monitor only, it appears to,

  I have created an edit which contains PAL xdcam ex 720p, pro HD 720p and SD 8 bit uncompressed footage.
  As the majority of the footage was xdcam ex I created a rough edit using xdcam ex settings. The dvcpro hd and 8 bit footage was automatically scaled up but this did not matter as it was a rough edit,

  Now it comes to creating a final edit I am not sure what to do.

  I thought that as the 8 bit uncompressed is the ‘smallest’ frame size at 720 x 576 anamorphic I would create a sequence to this size (the client wants an sd quicktime as well). However, when I drop the edit into the new sequence it looks to me that the xdcam ex footage has deterioated in quality. Is this so or am I seeing things? (It is automatically scaled to 80% to fit the 720×576 frame size).

  Any help advice greatfully received,

  Any advice on how to preserve quality?

  Phil Doherty replied 16 years, 7 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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