Bantonj
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I’m not sure what you are trying to do. This is to playback in a DVD player? Or to send to someone to play on a computer? Either way you don’t have to stay under 7, for a SD DVD you can safely average 8 Mb/s, and if you are just playing back on a computer you can safely go up to 9 Mb/s and still fit on the dual-layer disc.
Josh
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The video you get from your SD cameras is never going to be as sharp as HD, but you can get decent quality with a little upconverter. I really like AJA Video’s converters. I would give this one a look https://www.aja.com/html/products_rackmount_FS1.html, or Cobalt Digital has a very small converter that does a good job as well, https://www.cobaltdigital.com/product.details.php?ID=49. Both I think are around $4000.
Josh
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The reason manufacturers do this is because it is much easier to get 1280 x 768 LCD panels than it is to get 1280 x 720 LCD panels, though I’m not exactly sure what the reason for this is. I know Panasonic has some nice Broadcast LCDs with strange resolutions. You will not get 15:9 images, but instead the monitor will internally scale the image to fit the panel with small pillars on the sides. So 1080 video will be scaled down, and SD video will be scaled up.
This sounds strange, but LCD panels can only display their native resolution, unlike CRT’s which can display many different resolutions.
I’ve seen the Panasonic LCDs in a Post environment and they look very nice, I also saw the Sony Luma LCDs at NAB this year and they also look nice. The blacks are not as deep as a CRT, but they are adequate.
Josh
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This workflow sounds fine. My only recommendations are that you make sure to make an anamorphic D1 and that if your material is 23.98 to use standard 3:2, not Advanced because a lot of hardware encoders do not support it.
Josh
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I do a lot of upconverting SD video to HD for theatrical release. My experience has been that the original source material and the master format matter a great deal more than the algorithm used to resample it. Film originated material tends to hold up better, and the more pixels the better, anamorphic over letterboxed. I’ve found that the default after effects resampling at 16 or 32 bit is good enough.