Enlarging Footage

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Enlarging Footage

Posted by Sam Stevens on September 15, 2009 at 1:53 pm

Apologies if this seems like a stupid question, but I’m not a regular user of After Effects…

I’m working on a project using footage shot in 1920×1080 HDV and need to create some artificial zooms on various shots as the cameraman decided not to do them during the original shoot.
When I have tried enlarging them in the Composition however, they have degraded significantly, looking blurrier all round depsite the number of pixels available. Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this may be, and hopefully some solutions as to what I can do to improve upon it?

Many thanks,

Sam

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Todd Kopriva
September 15, 2009 at 4:51 pm

There’s a section in After Effects Help about scaling movies up.

Keep in mind that scaling a bitmap/raster image up beyond its original resolution requires the software to, essentially, make up information. This is always going to cause some loss in quality.

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Todd Kopriva
September 15, 2009 at 6:59 pm

Yeah, Instant HD is one of the third-party solutions mentioned in the resources that I pointed to.

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Sam Stevens
September 21, 2009 at 2:50 pm

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, and thanks for your suggestions. In the end, as I was rendering down to 640×480, I’ve ended up just cropping the footage in and have worked around it this way for now, but will investigate the plugins you mentioned.

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