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HD 4:3 Pillar box to 16:9 1080HD
Hi all,
Still trying to arrive at the best workflow/method to preserve quality or at least loose less from this HD pillar boxed 4:3 to full 16:9 HD.
I’ve been uprezing Betacam footage through an MXO2 to 1080i59.94 in Prores 422 in order to preserve the largest amount of image data. Then I scale the 4:3 in FCP7 to fill the 1080 frame and position vertically to select the 4:3. This usually requires about a 136 % scale. Obviously softening the image very much. After this I render the timeline in the prores and send to Color. Grade in Color and send back to FCP7. At some point, either before sending to Color or after I need to do some editing and effects work as well.
My question is, is there a preferred way/software to scale the pillar boxed 4:3? Presumably someone knows of a program that does this better than FCP7. Like Motion, Color or Compressor?
THe MXO2 as of now doesn’t upres SD 4:3 to fill the HD 16:9 frame so I’m forced to do a 136% scale somewhere along the line.
Thanks
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3 Replies
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Shake, After Effects…
Shane
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Thanks for your help Shane. I believe I have an Older version of Shake on my system somewhere. My AE is still only 6.5.
Kurt
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Compressor with Frame Controls on and best quality selected should scale better than FCP – and faster as it can use all cores.
John
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