Up-rezing / up-sizing dv to dv anamorphic (frame controls)

[Daniel Low]

[Brendan Pyatt] “I have some DV footage that I would like to up-size or is it up-rez (?) to DV anamorphic. “

That doesn’t make any sense. DV is DV. 720×480 NTSC, 720×576 PAL – you can’t get it any bigger than that.

Are you saying you have some 4:3 content you want to make 16:9?

Or?

By the way – how did you get on with the last issue you had?

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/20/862353

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[Brendan Pyatt]

Sorry, I thought anamorphic meant 16:9.

I have some 4:3 DV footage that I want to expand to 16:9.

[Daniel Low]

Here’s a great article on the subject:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/faking_it.html

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[Daniel Low]

By the way Brendon, we are not just droids here to answer your questions.

I politely asked how you got on with another issue I helped you with recently and you seemed to have ignored me.

If you wish to continue to get help here can I suggest that you might like to raise the level of communication with people on this forum?

Your feedback might help others and saying thanks is free of charge.

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[Brendan Pyatt]

Sorry! I have updated the previous thread – I really value yours, and others, help!!

That article on the Ken Stone site is most informative but for this project I would still like to try up-size the 4:3 footage to 16:9. Due to the success I have had down-sizing HDV to DV using compressor I am assuming that up-sizing using compressor would give better results than using the FCP timeline. My problem is that I have no decent way of checking this myself as my reference monitor setup (the MXO) does not display DV anamorphic clips well so I can’t simply try different settings in Compressor and see how they are.

So if anyone has an experience using the anti-aliasing and details levels in Compressor with regard to up-sizing footage it would be great!

(Thanks again Daniel for your help and patience. I am sorry that I didn’t take the time to say thanks…)

[Daniel Low]

No worries.

The bottom line here is that if you scale 4:3 dv to fully fit into a 16:9 frame, you will loose a fair bit of the picture and it will look pretty crap and pixelated. Compressor will do a bit of a better job than FCP, but you will find FCP much easier to realize visually what the end result will look like. There are other applications like shake and AE, as well as plugins for FCP that can do a better job. I’m at the pub so I can’t send you any links at the moment.

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[Brendan Pyatt]

When you have time to post some links it would be great.

I realise that I can have good control over composition etc by using the FCP timeline but there are some shots that I want to get the best quality I can.

Ive had a search on the net but can’t find any guidance on the anti-aliasing / details levels in Compressor – apart from the fact they are useful when up-sizing.

Thanks.

[Daniel Low]

https://www.borisfx.com/final_cut_pro/bccfxplug/uprez.php

https://www.digitalanarchy.com/resizer/main.html

https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-instant-hd/

Etc..

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[Brendan Pyatt]

Thanks Daniel!