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HD
ok, just because I make a composition an hd preset does that mean in will be HD footage. I am really confused about the whole HD thing.
Let me explain, when I watch law and order I can watch it in HD or standard. But its the same camera shots, the same everything, the same commercials. Either the camera men were standing on top of each other when shooting of the footage is from the same camera.
I have a widescreen laptop and when I play videos the side of the video is black. I made a comp ntsc and I got the same results. i made the comp wide screen just to test it out, same results, the sides were still black. im running the same comp using hd setting to see if this will change,
but will the quality be HD or is that a whole other learning curve. I hope im not too confusing, just want to make sense of it all
lastly, what does red giants HD conversion plugin do. thanks
ooops. in AE will plugins like trapcode, zaxwerks, be in HD
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To get HD, you have to shoot in HD, or upconvert SD to HD using a plugin such as instantHD from Red Giant. I have not personally tried instantHD, but have heard good things.
I think that you are mistaking HD and widescreen. Your footage does not have to be HD to be widescreen, but it should be shot in widescreen (16:9) in order to be rendered out in widescreen. Widescreen adds pixels, it doesn’t take them away. To get SD 4:3 footage to be REAL (not just black bars), you would have to stretch your 4:3 footage along the X axis, thus degrading the image. (Pixels would be scaled up).
Hope this helps
Mark
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