Cheep HD Questions

wafalcon wrote on 11/29/2006, 5:16 PM
I would like to ask some questions that I had in the back of my head for a while now, and maybe give some of you ideas as well, with them.

As you all know that HD is taking over really fast now and it seems to me that it is not realy settled yet, more new formats are comming out, new technologies are introduced to help improve the HD. Also it is wise not to buy first generation releases right?

So I was thinking to save my money for now and instead uprez my video somehow for now until the HD stabelizes for good.

Is it worth thinking about that upresing my video in the first place?

Can DV with it's 720X480 res. be converted to look like for instance 720p or upresed to something bigger?

I have noticed that RedGiant InstantHD has the uprez software and some good reviews on it. It is offered for Avid, Final Cut, and Premier. Anybody played with that in Vegas, any feedback and how to's?

Since InstantHD requires Progressive video is it possible to incode DV as 60p And can it be burned on to the DVD to be viewed as a regular video? 24p and 30p is too slow for me so I thought if I could incode DV into 60p I would get great quailty, smooth playback and Larger Video. Any 60p encoder Ideas?

As far as 16:9 goes, I thought to put my 3:4 video as a picture-in-picture into the 16:9 aspect ratio and in the back of the video place a slow animation like from Digital Juice. So it will be 16:9 Video animated frame with 3:4 Movie playing in it. Any feedback on that, I can pull it off looking like HD? (Especially if I can incode that video as 60p.)

So that's what I been thinking about lately.
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MH_Stevens wrote on 11/29/2006, 5:36 PM
wafalcon:
Here is just my opnion--

QUOTE: "Can DV with it's 720X480 res. be converted to look like for instance 720p or upresed to something bigger?"

If this could be done I would not own a HD camera. In fact the very OPPOSITE is true. An HDV camera takes better quality DV than DV cameras do and you can zoom in with no resolution loss.

QUOTE:"As far as 16:9 goes, I thought to put my 3:4 video as a picture-in-picture into the 16:9 aspect ratio"

If you want 16:9 DV you must shoot with a DV 16:9 camera else you throw away half your pixels and the result is worse than DV. Even a GOOD 4:3 DV camera wont give you good 16:9 DV let alone anything that vaguely looks better than DV.

Even the early 1080i HDV cameras like I have struggle to give great HDV. Save you cents and buy a true 1080p camera when they are available at a fair cost.
farss wrote on 11/29/2006, 6:16 PM
The very best SD 16:9 PAL don't look too bad upscaled but the cameras used to shoot it cost way, way more than ANY HDV camera.
Upscale that video and add all graphics at HD and you can get close to pulling it off.
fldave wrote on 11/29/2006, 6:50 PM
"Can DV with it's 720X480 res. be converted to look like for instance 720p or upresed to something bigger?"

You can make it 720p, but it won't have the true detail a HD source would.

Like watching DV material upscaled to an HDTV, when you switch to a true HD channel, you know it. At least I can definitely tell.