upconvert SD to HD

[Steve Rhoden]

Instant HD and Instant HD Advanced Are the
only Plugins i use for my up-resolution tasks in After Effects.
These Plugins to me (both in usability & final output), yeilds
the best results.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Portfolio at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys

[Norman Willis]

Quote:
Instant HD and Instant HD Advanced Are the
only Plugins i use for my up-resolution tasks in After Effects.
These Plugins to me (both in usability & final output), yeilds
the best results.

Thank you, Steve.

I apologize for my ignorance. If you get Instant HD Advanced, do you still need Instant HD?

And can you please comment on the Instant HD feature in Red Giant Magic Bullet?

Thank you.

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[Norman Willis]

Quote:
“Instant HD and Instant HD Advanced Are the
only Plugins i use for my up-resolution tasks in After Effects.
These Plugins to me (both in usability & final output), yeilds
the best results.”

Thanks, Steve.

Just to be clear, you like Instant HD and Instant HD Advanced more than you like Magic Bullet, and Topaz Enhance?

And if you get Instant HD Advanced, do you still need Instant HD, and/or Magic Bullet?

Thank you,

Norman

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http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Steve Rhoden]

As the names mentioned..Advanced has a bit more kick to it
and of course takes longer to render.
If you get Instant HD Advanced you really don’t need instant
HD…Unless you have a slow machine and cant wait around for
the longer render time….then Instand HD will be just the thing.
So for me, having both is quite handy.

But head on over to the site, there are tutorials and detailed
info on everything.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Portfolio at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys

[Paul Terry]

Norman said: “Just to be clear, you like Instant HD and Instant HD Advanced more than you like Magic Bullet, and Topaz Enhance?

And if you get Instant HD Advanced, do you still need Instant HD, and/or Magic Bullet?”

Hi Norman, just ran across this, and well …

Instant HD and Instant HD Advanced part of the Magig Bullet Suite. Magic Bullet is also the name of a plugin which is now called Frames that deinterlaces DV footage and makes it more “film-like”. I have no experience with Topaz.

But, as Steve said, try out some tutorials, download the trials from Red Giant (the company that distributes Magic Bullet products).

Also, a good thing to do is to scratch your head a bit about your reasons for uprezzing footage. And whether you can’t shoot HD in the beginning.

Obviously I’m coming in late, so if I missed all the discussion about shooting in HD vs uprezzing … sorry.

I have used Instant HD, which I must say is a good product, produces good results fairly quickly. (Although “quickly” is a relative term, especially when discussing rendering times. 5 hours is “quick” compared to 2 days. 😉 )

Another aproach which I have used is to render out an image sequence of the footage you want to blow-up. Then run it through Photoshop in batch mode and use either the builtin image size functions, or use a plugin called Photozoom Pro. IMHO, the Photoshop method can produce superior results with a couple caveats. The render time is likely to run considerably longer, and sometimes when you process footage a frame at a time as a sequence, the images can change too much between frames and get rather busy.

Also, in all of this discussion about plugins and such, don’t forget to have fun while your head explodes. I remember walking into an edit suite right out of college, an analog-linear-tape online suite and was almost frozen between the desire to jump in an do something and the fear that I didn’t have any idea what “all those buttons did.”

Luckily, my add kicked in and I learned that if there’s a button, push it and find out.

Happy 09.

PT

[Norman Willis]

Hi Paul.

Thank you for telling me that!

I had it on my wish-list to purchase Instant HD Advanced before Magic Bullet, so you just saved me from an unnecessary purchase!

I will try to follow your procedure once I get there. Right now I am still wading my way through Douglas Spotted Eagle’s DVD set on Vegas 4 (which is outstanding).

I’m going to try to get up to speed on Photoshop after I learn Vegas, so I will try to follow your recommendations then.

Thank you!

Norman

Norman Willis

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[Paul Terry]

[Norman Willis] “I had it on my wish-list to purchase Instant HD Advanced before Magic Bullet, so you just saved me from an unnecessary purchase!”

Well, I don’t want to steer you wrong. Instant HD is IN the Magic Bullet Suite, but I believe it’s available separately as well. Magic Bullet – the product – is now named “Frames” and is available separately as well as in the Magic Bullet Suite.

If you go to the Red Giant site … don’t remember the url offhand, just google Red Giant Magic Bullet … it might help clear things up.

The Magic Bullet products, except for Instant HD, were put together by some guys who jumped ship from Industrial Light and Magic, and formed The Orphanage with the main objective to produce feature-film-ish quality from small format digital video.

cheers,

PT

[Norman Willis]

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

Yeah, thanks. They include Instant HD in the suite, but do not include Instant HD Advanced.

I suppose when the time is right I will download the trial suite, and see what I can do with it.

Thank you.

Norman

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[Łukasz Rozalewicz]

Hello all users of this forum have lost material
from VHS tapes to discs (media) DVD, I give the first performance of the material, it is a remembrance of First Holy Communion:
Video parameters:
Width of the frame 704
Cage height 576
Data rate 9578kb / s
The total bitrate 9834kb / s
The frame rate of 25 frames per second

Audio parameters:
Bit rate of 256 kb / s
2 stereo channels
Audio sampling rate of 48kHz
This is one DVD disc with a capacity of 4.7 GB
Total size is 3.06 GB Material

I would like to know what I can do to Improve the quality of the movie or can be done with the material of good quality SD, Which program is the best that you can, jumping zlikwodować this image napocząku, denoise, sharpen, I Advise me of The Who Among available on the market is the best and it is best to improve the quality of video and audio material from VHS loser on DVD media? Very Please Help 🙂

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