Topaz Enhancee for FCP?

[Shane Ross]

There’s Instant HD from Red Giant Software. Good, and cheaper.

Then there’s a free one called COMPRESSOR. It will take a while (after fiddling with settings), but it does a decent job.

https://pistolerapost2.com/shaneross/DV_to_DVCPRO_HD.mov

Shane

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[Alexander Kallas]

Nice tutorial Shane,
Looks like the key is setting Progressive in the Frame controls tab.
What happens going to m2v from this “upres’d” file?

Cheers
Alexander

[Michael Wolcott]

Thanks, nice tutorial.

Don’t know why I didn’t think about compressor, not enough caffeine maybe (yeah that’s a good excuse).

[Michael Wolcott]

Hopefully this question doesn’t show my complete incompetence in compressor.

The DV that I’m upconverting was shot 16×9 (hvx200 to tape) and compressor seems to want to stretch it. Is there a way to tell compressor that this is 16×9 footage?

[Shane Ross]

Yes…look in the Inspector….look at all those options. One is 16:9.

Shane

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[Michael Wolcott]

Thanks Shane.

In compressor the preview looks to be vertically stretched, but after the upconvert it’s fine in FCP.

[Ben Scott]

we have a syntax box by brickhouse

it seems to do the best upconvert from tests on difficult soccer footage,

compressor does good job but slow and on some frames there were clear jumping ghosts for the outlines. the background footage which doesnt move much looked sharper than a lot of other hardware upconvertors