Kona vs Software upres for footage already acquired

[Shane Ross]

[Robin Remde] ” I am considering up-resing the output in hopes of softening scan lines, and allowing the film to be digitally projected in a theater”

Uprezzing won’t soften them, if anything, it will make them bigger. I mean, they are there. I have seen the Kona 3 slightly soften them, to hide them. But nothing major. But if you want to upconvert your footage in hopes of cleaning it up…it’s not gonna do that.

[Robin Remde] “is there a workflow that remains digital, or do I have to use the Kona card to output to a device, and then re-ingest the footage? “

The Kona only works it’s magic on INPUT or OUTPUT. It won’t work on converting footage already captured, unless you output.

No, upconverting the footage in an attempt to soften it and clean it up, IMHO, isn’t the way to go. Rendering out in ProRes NTSC might help. Or adding the 4:1:1 smoothing filter from nattress.com. Other solutions.

Shane

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[Eric Pautsch]

Yep….bottom line is that DV sucks. Bitvice has a good preprocessing filter but there’s very little you can do here.

[John Heagy]

DV (4:1:1) to MPEG(4:2:0) is worst case. DV averages to a single “hue” horizontally, then gets gets averaged vertically when compressed to 4:2:0.

[Robin Remde]

Thanks all for your input – Shane, thanks for the nattress suggestion – a lot of the cenes are poorly lit night scenes, so the color smoothing might just be the best option. I think (or hope) everyone here understands the serious limitations of DV – hell, even HDV would have been better – but the content is strong, and was produced by someone with zero technical experience (even the DV is cropped to widescreen rather than shot anamorphically). Yes, DV will always be DV, but anything I can do to minimize the artifacting will be a plus.