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kiosk video resolution issue
We created touchscreen kiosk programs, graphics and video, that display on a 1280 x 1024 screen. The 720 x 480 videos of course do not use up much of that screen, and the client is not happy with the size at which they display. If stretched, the videos display unacceptable breakup and look posterized, particularly on moves or dissolves. We have tried several export protocols from the FCP timeline, including uncompressed, but not suprisingly, these don’t work. What, if anything, can be done to increase the resolution of the videos to make them play larger on the screen and still remain crisp? The videos were produced in DV.
Thanks from a compression novice.
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Increase the resolution? Not much can be done unfortunately. One thing would be to output to tape and then output from there to SDI into an expensive scaling box and then recapture. But even most of those boxes don’t do a much better job than software. One thing you could try is to deinterlace the content when encoding. For computer display, a deinterlaced (progressive) source looks much better for playback, although deinterlacing technically forces you to lose resolution. About the only other thing I can think of would be to encode to MPEG-2 interlaced at a very high bitrate that your computer can still playback, and then play the file in a player (like VLC) that can blend the two fields and scale to fullscreen. I seriously doubt that is possible for your situation though.
Best bet would be to build the Kiosk interface at 640×480 or 800×600, and set the display to the same resolution and then play the video back at its natural size.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to try to help. We’ll be smarter next time.
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Well, if he’s using Compressor 2, he can use the Shake-derived optical flow resampling stuff for upsampling. They do a surprisingly good job if you don’t mind spending a few hours per minute of source to process them :). Set the resize filter to “Best (Statistical Prediction).” And if coming from interlaced source, definitely use the “Best (Motion Compensated)” deinterlacing mode.
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