up-converting 480 footage

[Bleakley Mcdowell]

[Shane Ross] “Having it on screen very small, surrounded by black. Or, layer several of this type of footage so you have multiple windows of footage.”

I think this is exactly what I’m going to do.

[Shane Ross] “[Bleakley McDowell] ”
I figure at a minimum I need to at least conform the frame rate to 23.98.”

Yes, you will.”

What about the compressor? Or the pixel aspect ratio? Changing the pixel aspect ratio to square squashes everything… can I leave everything else alone and just change the frame rate?

[Bleakley Mcdowell]

[Bleakley McDowell] “”Having it on screen very small, surrounded by black. Or, layer several of this type of footage so you have multiple windows of footage.””

OK. Let me ask this in a different way.

Lets say I want to have my SD footage windowboxed in an HD 1080 project. But, 480 is too small of a frame for me. I want the windowboxing but I want a bigger picture than 480 and still keep the SD 4:3 ratio. 1440×1080 is too big because then I just have pillarboxing instead of windowboxing.

So, what are my frame size options in this situation? Can I choose any frame size that is a 4:3 ratio (say, 1280×960 or 960×720) or am I restricted to a few particular frame sizes?

Thanks