I have a project shot in 480p and want to "up-rez" it to 720p. Can I just import the footage onto a 720p timeline and export a 720p project? Has anyone tried this before?
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I have done that. Sort of.
I had an edit mixed with 1920 X 1080p footage, HDV, and with 480p footage in a ProRes 1080p timeline.
The system I was using had a Kona card to assist in the upre, which worked pretty well.
Do you have a capture card installed? If not then it probably won't work that well.
If you dont then Compressor is quite good at this, or about as good as you will get.
- Shane Ross used to have a very good tutorial online for this.
There are lots of plugins & other apps, but compressor does a better job in my opinion.
Other apps include Boris Upres, Red Giant's Instant HD, Reframe from Miraizon, etc.
Thanks for the info Jason,
I'm looking for a software solution to this problem as I don't have a capture card.
So, would I then have to uprez the footage in compressor and then export it to a 720p timeline or would I cut the whole thing (45-50min!) and then export to compressor for uprez?
How would you characterize the final "720p" product?
I am about to begin a project that is very similar to the one I did before, but with no kona option to upconvert this time around.
What i will do is cut the footage in a 1920 X 1080 edit & only upres the SD footage that makes it into the fine cut with compressor. The reason I will do this at that point is I have approx 300 hrs of SD footage & to upres it all would take forever (never mind the drive space it would need) .
I have looked all over for Shane Ross' tutorial on how to do this & cant seem to find it. I think he was upconverting SD to DVCPRO HD 720p.
He is on these boards a lot, so maybe he will chime in with the link, or a better solution.
How would I characterize the 720p product? I wouls say it is a good solution for a production on a budget.
If you are upconverting you are never going to ever do as good a job as a Teranex hardware conversion, or by upconverting with a kona card.
Capture cards only work when you have a signal incoming....such as from a camera, or deck...or other system. It doesn't do anything to assist upres already existing media.
Use Compressor. Set the FRAME CONTROLS to BEST.
Wait a looooooong time.
Sorry if I didn't make that clear - re: upconvert when capturing & not once it is in a project.
I thought the link to your article did, plus it is a good read.
Was hoping you would show up here. Does that tutorial of yours still exist online?
If not, what i remeber in compressor was you used DVCPRO HD as a codec.
Is that right?
Turn frame controls on to best
Geometry set to 1280 X 720, but i cant remember the crop settings for top & bottom.
I beleive it was adjustable according to the framing of the shot, but I cant remember the
#'s you used as an example.
That tutorial on converting DV to DVCPRO HD is loooooooong gone. It was made when FCP 4.5 was the highest FCP version out there, and DVCPRO HD was the codec of choice. Very out of date.
sure, but the same basics still apply. don't they?
ex. i convert SD progressive footage to 1280 X 720p ProRes
with frame controls set to best
geometry set to 1280 X 720
and then experiment with the crop settings for the top & bottom until i get what i need for framing?
I have a project shot in 480p and want to "up-rez" it to 720p. Can I just import the footage onto a 720p timeline and export a 720p project? Has anyone tried this before?
