Increasing resolution by lateral thinking

[Mark Maness]

Do you have access to a Mac with an AJA Kona 3 installed?

If so, just edit DV 16:9 and uprez it on output. It still won’t have full HD quality but there are many people who do this all of the time. There are lots of small low budget features done like this.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey

[Matt Gerard]

Man, I wish I had the time to think about stuff like that. I have software that I don’t use because i don’t have the time to learn it (Color, LightWave). Deadlines are deadlines! I get paid pretty well for what I do, but how do you make any money working on Micro budget films?

Don’t get me wrong, i am always looking for ways to do things faster/better/cheaper while keeping quality and creativity up. Good for you for brainstorming, its the way things get figured out.

[Chris Borjis]

[1000dollarfilm] “If anyone else has got any bright ideas about how we can get the most out of DV in post, regardless of how off beat, we’d be massively interested.”

I have the definitive answer for you and it is your only best and practical option imo.

buy Stu Maschwitz “DV Rebel’s Guide” book.

All of your answers and more are there. A highly recommended read for everyone here at the cow.

[Uli Plank]

Well, we have done this before cheap HD was all around with quite good success for a film trailer, using three images from rotated DV camcorders. The project was graphics heavy, so it was all done in After Effects instead of FCP. What we did:

– de-interlaced all footage with the help of FieldsKit ( http://www.revisionfx.com )

– smoothed chroma with Graeme Nattress’ filter

The results didn’t look like coming from video at all, but recently we did a similar project with a 900,- Euro camcorder from Canon (the HV 20), ingested via HDMI, and it looked as good and was far less hazzle

[1000dollarfilm]

Big thanks to all of you, we’re going to look into everything.

We also apreciate everyone who took the time to challenge our basic premise… we do absolutely believe that micro-budget shouldn’t mean a compromise in quality. In terms of our own project, we will shoot on the best format we can acquire.

However, we’re also passionate about helping people make good movies even when they’ve got incredibly limited resources. An even deeper belief is that the quality of the story you tell, can overcome for the audience a less than perfect image (from a technical POV)… but, with that said we still think that it’s important to be able to push the technical performance of whatever kit you’ve to the edge of its limitations.