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Preset when using multiple Video Types and Resolutions
Hello! Hope everyone is well. I wanted to make this easier to answer, so here’s the actual footage I’m working with.
If I have a project where I’ll be using:
-1920x108024p DSLR footage that is my own
-a 1920×1080 .mov file created by someone else 29.97 fps
-an mp4 vid that is 640×352 created by someone else 30fps
-a 640×480 wmv file created by someone else.As you can tell, it’s a big mix and match. So how would I go about working with this footage and making it work? I figure I’d need to figure out a custom preset, but how does someone actually make this footage work with each other? Thanks.
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7 Replies
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It depends a bit on the final destination of the project.
But general rule is the smallest resolution. But you could try a DV-ntsc setting.
Scaling up 640×352 to 1920×1080 is never going to work (I don’t even think MB instant HD is going to be able to handle this).———————————————–
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Absolutely on the 640 footage to HD. I wouldn’t dream of trying to scale up the small stuff. Is there anything more that I should know to do? I mean, do I need to interpret the bigger footage to work in the SD timeline? thanks so much for the reply.
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Amount of footage in each size can matter just as well as the Final D.
You can also, use the smaller stuff in the HD sequence and not display full screen.
Chris Tompkins
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Absolutely. I agree. Here’s something I’m curious about in this context. If I did dv-ntsc, and then I imported some dslr footage, it would, of course, be huge. But recently, when I did that and scaled to frame size, it looked awful. Just fuzzy looking, pixellated, like it had been processed a bunch of times. Original footage looks great, just to clarify. Is there something I’m missing? I figured that adding HD footage to an SD timeline would be fine because the footage is already so high quality that it would basically be down-res’ing. But it really looks bad, especially compared to some other files, like the .mov that is also 1920×1080. Granted, this file may have been made by someone who really knows their stuff in terms out of output, but still, seems strange that the footage could be that messed up looking.
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Your HD should be fine in the SD sequence – don’t judge the quality on the computer screen.
Also, the DV-NTSC codec is horrible and looks like heck.
Chris Tompkins
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Frequently I am in a similar boat.
I decide what my final master is going to be, then change-translate all the footage to that format/codec. Works nicely. I regularly have to put footage from 640 into 1920 and use a custom background. Just make up a JPG or TiFF, or PNG as the background.
My Masters are all done (for my major client) in 1920*1080i ProRes. I then convert to whatever formats are needed. Usually MP4, WMV, Flash in various resolutions and DVDs.
Hope that helps.
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Another trick that is quite popular, especially on news programs, is to center your SD footage int he HD frame, then place another copy of the same clip behind it, scale it up to fill the background, then add a heavy blur to the background clip.
Watch major news networks, as well as ESPN. You can easily pick out the SD footage they have gotten for a program when they use this technique.
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