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simple zooming question
if i understand it, you shouldnt take footage higher than 100% scale because it forces pixels to be invented where there weren’t any. someone just told me that you can send footage to a local effects house and they can blow it up. what would that be all about ? the other thing is i zoomed some footage up to about 120% and then rendered it out with the animation codec and it
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All an effects house may have that AE does not is software with better algorithms for scaling up footage. Like Shake has a handful of options. A little bit of scale isn’t going to kill anybody though and is used on TV a LOT. Watch any reality/news magazine/Entertainment show and they are pulling, stretching, and zooming their video all over the place to take one clip and give it spunk for ppl with the attention span of a small field mouse like myself.
If you originated on film, then it’s always far cleaner to go back and do a select transfer of that shot and zoom in on the Spirit so that you are just looking at the grain a little closer instead of down rezing in the digital domain. If you shot Super 35 and framed for a BIG TV ground glass than you would have something like 20% extra neg to play with than acadamy 35 and have lots o’ room to zoom in on. I did a CU of a Nokia phone once and framed it off-center for a more interesting frame. In the end they just wanted a crazy ECU of it. We zoomed in on the neg from the S35 framing something like 60%, cranked up the noise reducer a bit more than usual and it looked great! So go figure. I joked that I’m just going to shoot everything with a 12 mil lens from now on and worry about framing later 🙂
What people are calling broadcast quality is now quite often cheap DV cameras shooting news and reality programs, so anything flies.
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com
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