HD resizing! :)

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Freddie,

The easy answer is – edit with the format you want to deliver in. How are you going to deliver the product, 720p or 1080p? If going to the web, then 720p makes more sense.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Freddie Hill]

Thanks for the advice.
My final product is going to be at 854×480. Does that make a difference on which one I resize up to the other?

[Jeff Pulera]

When you upscale video, there is some quality loss since the image is being “blown up”. So, it would not make sense to upscale the 720p to 1080p, only to turn around and downscale it again.

Work at 720p, and export the final to the desired SD widescreen sizing.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Freddie Hill]

Wow. Thankyou for the fast response!
I understand that making no sense now to do thatl.
Great. That’s what i’ll do, i’ll work at 720p and rescale the 1080p down.

[Jeff Pulera]

One more thing – in Premiere Preferences, there is a checkbox for “Scale to Frame Size”. I like to keep that enabled, but it doesn’t affect clips that were already imported before you made the change.

In any event, you can just right-click a clip on the timeline and check or un-check scale to frame there. With this enabled, just put the 1080p clips into the 720p sequence and they should scale and look fine automatically.

When you do the final export, be sure to set square pixels (1.0) for the aspect ratio

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Jason Jenkins]

What is cool about editing 1080p in a 720 timeline is that you have extra resolution to play with. If you decide you want to cut to a closeup, you can just scale up the 1080p and do a simulated focal length change.

Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Jason,

Very good point! This trick is great for tightening up/adjusting framing, or as mentioned, add some motion using keyframes. If you plan any scaling this way, uncheck “Scale to Frame” first then use Adobe Motion as needed.

Jeff

[Freddie Hill]

Okay, thankyou for the advice. I do plan to do zooming like that.

On the topic of zooming. Will I only have extra resolution from within Premiere Pro to do focal length changes? Or can I export a .mov file and use it another program to do it and still see the same gain in quality compared to my 720 clips exported in that .mov file. If Yes then do I have to keep the same resolution as my sequence from within Premiere Pro (keeping 720 on my exported mov) or can I say, export to an SD res and still benefit from the extra resolution of the 1080 when doing focal stuff?

By the way, do you use Adobe Media Encoder to encode footage?
I have a multiple sequence project (about 15 sequences) and went to export/encode using AME. I imported the sequences there and wanted to have a different export setting for each one according to the frame rates of my sequences in Premiere Pro. With my Project panel and the AME window up I can quickly scan across to check the fps of the sequence and then go back to select my AME custom encoding preset, but I can’t sort the sequence’s in AME by name so the two windows don’t match up linearly.
Is there any way to sort the sequences in the AME encoding page by their names in Premiere Pro?
It’s not that big of a deal if you can’t sort sequences by name in AME but it would be a time-saver for me if this is available to do.

Also slightly offtopic, but is there any way to, by using key commands, switch between the Source Monitor and the Program Monitor panels in Premiere Pro?

Thankyou for your help once again!

[Jeff Pulera]

Keep your source video in a 1080 format or you are losing any advantage once you start downscaling.

I don’t know about the other questions

Jeff

[Freddie Hill]

Okay. That’s what i’ll do. Thankyou.