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Up REZING FROM SD TO HD THROUGH FCP
Hey Everyone,
I need to up-rez SD footage that lives on Dbeat and BetaSp and PAL MINIDV. The footage is old 16mm surf shots. I am working in a 960×720 (16:9) 23.98 project with interview footage shot on the Varicam and P2 cameras at my projects resolution and aspect ratio. I will eventually need to make a 1080i master for a film festival. My questions:Best way to up-rez SD material:
1) bring in at 525 29.97 through AJA Kona card and resize?
2) bring in at 1080i 29.97 through AJA Kona card and resize?
3) Use a Teranex to upconvert to HDCAM and capture into FCP?Should we recapture all the varicam footage with a 720-1080 cross convert to
recapture all the footage for mastering? (We orginaly digitized it firewire
DVC Pro HD 720 24p)Can we cross covert a 720 24p timeline to 1080 on the output of the kona 3
to HDCAM or D-5? Which is best? Do we lose quality if we do this?Thanks
Danny
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Either use a Kona 3 card and capture all your footage as DVCPRO HD, to match the settings of your sequence (720p 23.98) or upconvert with a Terranex to DVCPRO HD tape. Upconverting to 1080i would be pointless, as you’d drop it into your 720p timeline and render and it would then be 720p.
I had a show that was 60% archival footage like this, and we used a Terranex to upconvert to DVCPRO HD 720p 23.98.
Shane
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Good advice. So you think the Terranex will give me the best results? I know you said it was pointless to uprez to 1080 since I am un a 720 timeline, but if my final output will be 1080 do you think it would be pointless to up rez the material to 1080 start a new project as a 1080 prject and bring my other material that wa shot in 720 to the 1080 timeline an uprez it there?
Somebody told me to do a up rez in FCP using the 10801 29.97 setting compared to the 525 29.97. Am I going to see a difference if the footage is SD coming from a dbeta? I did a test this morning and I don’t really see a big difference at all. -
[D-bres] “So you think the Terranex will give me the best results?”
Without question, yes. This is the best way to uprez footage from SD to HD.
[D-bres] “if my final output will be 1080 do you think it would be pointless to up rez the material to 1080 start a new project as a 1080 prject and bring my other material that wa shot in 720 to the 1080 timeline an uprez it there?”
There really will be no gain in uprezzing your SD footage to 1080 rather than 720p. I suppose you could, then drop all your 720p footage into that timeline and render…render…render. Would there be a quality gain in going 1080 instead of 720? No. And since all your other footage is 720, but make it match. Then output all of it to 1080, upconverting as you output using a Kona 3.
Shane
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