converting SD to HD

wheel wrote on 7/2/2011, 8:19 PM
Hi--
What is the best way to convert older SD (and even older, lesser quality clips) to HD so that it will look the best in a HD production. I have some older, fairly good quality shots taken with my old Canon XL2's--that I want to integrate in a project that I am shooting with HD cameras. I want the differences to be a minimal as possible.
I have looked at a product by Red Giant. But I am hoping to learn about, say, the top 3 or 4 programs/products. I understand that there is no way to go back in time and make an older SD clip look like HD, but there must be some program that will reconfigure the lines and maybe even interpolate the pixels etc to make it as close as possible.

thanks (and please use laymen terms when responding as I am not terribly tech savvy)

---Wheel

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 7/2/2011, 8:53 PM
Boris FX has BCC UpRez which you can buy as a Continuum Unit or part of Boris Continuum Complete. It does an outstanding job of converting SD to HD as a Vegas Pro 10 plug-in.

I have a training video on how to use it on the Boris TV web site.

~jr
KenJ62 wrote on 7/3/2011, 8:34 PM
Have you looked at this? http://www.infognition.com/VideoEnhancer/
craftech wrote on 7/4/2011, 4:13 AM
Here is something I found that uses free tools.

There is also Red Giant Instant HD if you have Adobe After Effects or the one John posted above if you don't.

There are hardware converters, but they all cost quite a lot.

John
MikeLV wrote on 8/3/2017, 6:55 PM

This is a pretty old thread. Are there any other plugins available to upres from SD (interlaced DVD) to HD, completely inside of Vegas, (without having to use HB?) I could use HB, but I have a lot of events on timeline, and a lot of projects. Frame serving script will only let me do one event at a time, manually =( Suggestions?

Musicvid wrote on 8/3/2017, 10:05 PM

 

Although some upsampling algorithms are better than others, alas, after all these years, one still cannot polish a t*rd.

3POINT wrote on 8/4/2017, 4:15 AM

Maybe the new "smart upscale" filter in Vpro14 is also usefull for upscaling SD2HD.

MikeLV wrote on 8/4/2017, 10:53 AM

I haven't upgraded to v14 yet

3POINT wrote on 8/4/2017, 1:08 PM

I haven't upgraded to v14 yet.

Are there any other plugins available to upres from SD (interlaced DVD) to HD, completely inside of Vegas,

But it answered your question.

Red Prince wrote on 8/5/2017, 12:23 PM

Maybe the new "smart upscale" filter in Vpro14 is also usefull for upscaling SD2HD.

Just out of curiosity, I tried the new smart upscale. It turned my output all black. Then it popped an error message that states, “This plug-in requires OpenCL to function.” What makes it think my NVIDIA driver doesn’t have OpenCL?🐵

FWIW, smart zoom acts the same way.

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Rainer wrote on 8/5/2017, 7:16 PM

Going back a while, but often needed to combine my (wide) XL2 footage with HD. The footage uprezzd quite nicely just from the timeline. Adjust the pan/crop width to around 702 (PAL) to remove some slight black border and ordinarily viewing it you would have to look very hard to notice the XL2 footage wasn't sourced in HD.

Red Prince wrote on 8/5/2017, 7:25 PM

Here is the error the smart upscale produces for me:

And here are all the Vegas configuration entries pertaining to OpenCL:

 

So what’s the problem? And is it just me or everyone?

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Rainer wrote on 8/5/2017, 11:13 PM

Working on my Windows 10 system, same error as yours on Windows 7.

Red Prince wrote on 8/5/2017, 11:32 PM

Working on my Windows 10 system, same error as yours on Windows 7.

Thanks. (I’m on Windows 10, too). So it could be a bug in Vegas.

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3POINT wrote on 8/6/2017, 2:38 AM

Here is the error the smart upscale produces for me:

And here are all the Vegas configuration entries pertaining to OpenCL:

 

So what’s the problem? And is it just me or everyone?

I'm having the same problem, that's why I said:

Maybe the new "smart upscale" filter in Vpro14 is also usefull for upscaling SD2HD.

because I couldn't test it on my system due to this error message of which I thought that it was caused by my older graphics card.

3POINT wrote on 8/6/2017, 1:33 PM

So what’s the problem? And is it just me or everyone?

No problem here with smart upscale and smart zoom.


The fact that you're not able (or lucky not having the problem) to reproduce the problem doesn't mean that there is no problem. It is sad that new features not always work on all computers which meet clearly the system requirements.

Red Prince wrote on 8/6/2017, 4:16 PM

No problem here with smart upscale and smart zoom.

Thanks. So, there is a problem even if it does not show on all systems. I hope they still fix it in v.14 because I am not paying more just to have a fix for a problem that should not have been there given how much I paid for the upgrade to v.14.

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Can you imagine the silence if everyone only said what he knows?
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