OT: Workflow for up-res SD to HD?

p@mast3rs wrote on 11/5/2005, 10:52 AM

Does anyone have a good workflow for up-res SD to HD? Everytime I try it, I end up with black bars on both sides. I am trying to up res some QT tutorials I have (880x660 5fps) but havent had much luck. Any suggestions?

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Coursedesign wrote on 11/5/2005, 11:44 AM

If you're interested in quality, search for previous posts on this, lots of good, non-obvious info.

Which HD format are you up-rezzing to? If you maintain the aspect ratio you will of course get pillarboxing.

If you are uprezzing for viewing on a PC, keep the square pixels and decide how you want to crop the original footage (or use a 4:3 aspect ratio).

For TV, you will end up with converting to anamorphic pixels, say 960x720 with 1.33 wide pixels for 1280x720.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/5/2005, 12:24 PM

It’s just like converting SD to widescreen. Set up your project as HD and then use pan/crop on all SD events and select Match Output Aspect.

~jr