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Issues re-sizing low-res footage
This is a strange problem I’ve found no threads relating to…
In order to save space on his hard drive, my partner imported footage at low quality, resulting in pixelated grainy footage when resized in the canvas or viewer. Now, with adequate HD space, I can’t get a hold of him!
I’ve moved all the low-res footage offline and recaptured the footage at DV NTSC and reconnected, but when I go to resize the image, it’s still pixelated on the timeline – but it’s fine when opened in the browser. Will I have to replace every edit on the timeline with the recaptured footage? I don’t know where to begin with this problem, and since my partner’s MIA, I can’t go to the source. Please help!
Also, the aspect ratio is off. I have to distort to -10 for the frame to fit the wireframe in canvas.
Thanks,
Mike
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2 Replies
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There are heaps of threads about recapturing from low res offline using Media Manager.
What you need to do is use Media Manager to convert the low res sequence to DV NTSC. If your camera originals are anamorphic 16:9 then that needs to be the selected sequence setting.
With your new Media Managed sequence, recapture your footage. The will be no need to rescale, nothing will be pixelated (apart from normal DV) and no resizing of width either.
Read the manual and do a thorough search of Media Manager threads in this forum to unearth all the information you need. With the price of hard drives these days there is never any reason not to capture DV native. It would be better if your partner remains MIA so this basic mistake is not repeated.
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Indeed you are correct about my *former partner. Good help these days… not so difficult to find on creative cow. Thanks so much for the response. It’s about time I become more familiar with media manager.
Thanks again,
Mike
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