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Pan and Scan or Zoom
I am working in an SD sequence but have several HD clips that are being included. Would I get a better quality finished image if I use a BCC Pan and Scan (or similar filter) or the standard zoom to move into the HD footage? Any recommendations for final quality output?
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4 Replies
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Some Boris filters employ a separate, sub-pixel rendering engine that is vastly superior to Apple’s. Dunno if this is one of them.
A dedicated filter designed for smooth and elegant 2D moves is generally easier to keyframe and edit than using the geometry settings for the clip.bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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I am needing to do this also. I have an SD project, ive got mostly SD footage, however I do have some HD clips that I would like to zoom in on and reframe (within the SD frame itself). It was my thinking that I could zoom in on these HD clips up to 100% without loosing quality and making pixels huge and blocky… not so. Why? It is almost like it has actually converted my HD footage to SD before I even drop it onto the timeline.
Any thoughts?
Kevin -
look in the motion tab. Probably they are a 50% or so just to fit in the canvas window.
Resize them. As you say, until 100% there is not real upscaling.
rafael -
yes. as I go into the motion tab with the HD clip selected, the Scale defaults to 37.5%… good. But when i scale the HD clip to 100%, it looks as pixelated as a mosaic artist’s portfolio. It’s like FCP is “interpreting” the HD clip as SD as it hits the timeline.
Argg! This is frustrating.
Kevin
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