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Coursedesign wrote on 9/13/2007, 2:50 PM
Vegas can do it of course, but Red Giant's Instant HD can do it better.
craftech wrote on 9/13/2007, 5:25 PM
Instant HD requires Final Cut Pro 4.1 (or later), Premiere Pro 1.5, or After Effects 6.0 (or later) to run.

John
Soniclight wrote on 9/13/2007, 6:05 PM
"Instant HD requires Final Cut Pro 4.1 (or later), Premiere Pro 1.5, or After Effects 6.0 (or later) to run. "

OK, so if you don't have those -- or a big budget, what is the best way?
Laurence wrote on 9/13/2007, 6:40 PM
The best thing you can do is just get a good Blu-ray or HD DVD player to play your SD DVDs. It will uprez a little better than what you can do with a plugin.
Cheno wrote on 9/13/2007, 7:05 PM
How will this be shown / displayed? I've taken SD material and uprezzed in in Vegas to 720p projects for theatre projection and it looked wonderful - I doubt using Vegas, you'll see much of an issue with DJ's stuff on an HD timeline.

-cheno
StormMarc wrote on 9/14/2007, 4:54 AM
"How will this be shown / displayed?"

Initially it will be on regular DVD. But in the future it will be released on whatever is the standard HD dvd format.

I'm playing the the Instant HD plugin (in premiere) but can't seem to figure out the workflow to bring clips back into Vegas. Anybody doing this? What are you exporting to?

Thanks,

Marc
plasmavideo wrote on 9/14/2007, 8:22 AM
Try using Virtualdub with the Smart Resize filter and Precise Bicubic as the option. That's worked pretty well for me, especially going from 352 x 240 up to 720 x 480. I've also played around with the smart sharpen filters as well to give it a little "snap". I have tried uprezing a DJ file to HD, but I'm not editing in HD yet, so I can't give you a complete answer. I know it worked and looked good on the computer display, but I have not seen the output on an external monitor yet.

Tom