Nesting/Resizing Quality Issue - HELP!

Hi, I'm having a problem where I edited a project in a timeline where the sequence is 1024x576 but I basically need to upscale to 1920x1080.

Now...there is no issue with the quality of the content. The content can easily be stretched without degrading (as it was shot higher than 1024x576), BUT...there are TONS of clips/images (actually lots of photos are in it), so I can't resize them one by one, nor can I just do one and paste attributes.

And when I Sequence>nest items it locks them into a certain size so when I go to stretch the whole clip, quality goes down! I've compared taking one image...scaling it up, and it looks fine...to sequencing/nesting the images, then scaling up the size...and the quality degrades!

Is there any way to just resize a group of items?? In the way that you can resize one item by the corner wireframes.

Help!

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jul 29, 2009 5:22 AM

18 replies

Jul 29, 2009 9:59 AM in response to RedTruck

Paul is posting this same thread on the cow and includes a link to his finished project. It's a great piece. Take a look and you'll appreciate his challenge a bit more.
I'm of the opinion scaling most of the content won't affect the end result much at all. Some elements will need to be replaced but not many.
the other challenge is figuring out who is going to pay for the change in delivery specifications since the work is now finished but must be rebuilt?

bogiesan

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Jul 29, 2009 10:07 AM in response to David Bogie Chq-1

Thanks David. Here is the spot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0mzG06K3fw

You are right..a lot of it does go by quite fast, and the quality is such a melee (photos, clips, rotoscoped animation), that it is probably not a huge deal to be stretched a bit. I'm just wishing I could scale everything without losing any quality, because with the individual clips, it's fine...the nested sequence..not so much.

No worries on the pay or the new cut though. It is a job. I've gotta get it done. The problem is that I am moving and will be without my machine for a week, so I've gotta do it now!

I also directed the spot, if you are curious to know more about the whole process.

RedTruck

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Jul 29, 2009 11:13 AM in response to PaulCummings

Nice job.

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