[Anton Krug]

Now I tried the Instant HD and the resizer what reg giant bought, I think the resizer gives me almost the same results as the instant HD, but for my case it gives me easier controls (just to put 200% zoom and don’t have to calculate what is double of full HD). And it renders much faster.

I shot 3 movies, first 20x zoom, then 20x with 2x tele-converter (40x) and then 40x digital, that means 20x optical and 2x magnification in camera software. So I have original file, then I have the best case scenario (optical 40x) and worst case scenario (digital zoom in camera).

But both result (instant HD and resizer) gave me almost the same results as the worst case scenario. It’s is very hard to find any difference between the digital zoom from camera and the AE results. Is there any other alternative software to Red Giant, perhaps this one is not the best suited for my conditions.

[Anton Krug]

Thank you for both answers. I will give the “instant HD” a try, even that I want to use it for something else. I shot 1080p already, just when I use 20x optical zoom I can enhance it to 80x but by loosing details, now I found out that I can use digital teleconverter (2x – 2.3x) so I will get 40x without loosing details and without any accessories, just different settings on camera (clipping center from the 11Mpix sensor). And only what I need to do is to zoom it by 200% and I will have 80x zoom. But instead doing it in camera directly where I had 8x magnified pixels now I will have 2x magnification, but with more sophisticated algorithm which will give me much more better results from my original process. And I hope that I will get to the 80x optical zoom illusion as near as possible.

When I will finish with the tests with the Red Giant plugin then I will post you update how well did the trick for me.

[Anton Krug]

Thank you for the link, I tried it, but perhaps I’m very bad noob in AE because still I wasn’t able to replicate effect what I wanted. I have old Riot Gear tutorial and there is 3d space animation, black text on bottom with bitmaps over the the text, the bitmaps contain white paint drops. And are covering the text on places where the text and drops overlap, they made possible to paint the text black again (even when the drops are on the top) and they used the vector paint for that and I’m still not able to replicate that in CS5.