Using CF to resize SD to HD

Jay-Hancock wrote on 9/13/2006, 8:58 AM
The new Cineform Connect HD beta (haven't tried it yet) boasts a new feature that it will scale video to HD resolutions during conversion to CFDI. And it now accepts a variety of input formats.

This scaling was apparently introduced to support HVX200 cameras because they shoot into non-standard sizes, but obviously it can be used by anyone to scale their video.

Has anyone tried it? How good does upscaling footage with HD Connect look compared to resizing in Vegas by doing a really long render at "best" settings?

Here are some quotes from the Cineform CTO's blog, but I don't know what to make of it as far as how it would compare to Vegas's resizing. If someone has tried this scaling it would be good to hear there results.

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Coursedesign wrote on 9/13/2006, 9:18 AM
The HVX200 camera has only 960x540 CCDs with pixel shifting to 960x720, so must interpolate/uprezz this internally.

Is the CF beta about going to full raster 1920x1080?

Jay-Hancock wrote on 9/13/2006, 9:29 AM
The post said "HDLink now supports resizing of all sources to standard HD sizes. " so I would assume 1920x1080 should be included...
joropeza wrote on 9/13/2006, 9:47 AM
1920x1080 is only for ProspectHD.

Juan
David Newman wrote on 9/13/2006, 9:57 AM
Read my blog entry on the subject here : http://cineform.blogspot.com/2006/08/hvx200-resolution-options.html

There isn't much reason to upres the HXV200 to 1920x1080, my blog explains why.

David Newman
CTO, CineForm

Coursedesign wrote on 9/13/2006, 10:59 AM
_Dan_,

You da' man!

I love clear writing, and you are one of the rare ones providing it.

Albert Einstein once said, "Anything you can't explain to a 5-year old, you don't really understand."

I have thought about that statement a lot, and it contains a world of truth in a universe of obfuscation and mush.

Albert said this when he worked in Los Angeles (at CalTech), talking to a little girl who was 5 years old at the time. Six years ago I had a private picnic with this no longer 5-year old "yenta" , and she told me about this and had lots of other interesting stories about this unusual and wonderful character.

Dan, thanks for carrying the torch for clarity, and thanks for saving us years of not having to wait for Tokyo to deliver modern practical HD codecs!