Mark Stavar
July 2nd, 2009, 06:30 AM
We have a short film, shot in SD on miniDV (Sony PD150).
The footage was framed for widescreen.
In post I applied a 16x9 mask and was just going to show it as letterboxed and pillarboxed on screen.
But, I tried rendering a version where I zoomed in the footage to be fullscreen 16x9. It looks better than I expected, though there is a definite softening of the image in many shots.
I did try up-res'ing to 1080-50i, and zooming in to that and then rendering the DVD, but it does not appear to have given any better result than just cropping and rendering the original.
My question is then: what would be the best way to process the SD 4x3 footage to retain the best image quality when it is zoomed into?
Hope all that made sense.
All information and advice gratefully accepted.
Regards,
marks
The footage was framed for widescreen.
In post I applied a 16x9 mask and was just going to show it as letterboxed and pillarboxed on screen.
But, I tried rendering a version where I zoomed in the footage to be fullscreen 16x9. It looks better than I expected, though there is a definite softening of the image in many shots.
I did try up-res'ing to 1080-50i, and zooming in to that and then rendering the DVD, but it does not appear to have given any better result than just cropping and rendering the original.
My question is then: what would be the best way to process the SD 4x3 footage to retain the best image quality when it is zoomed into?
Hope all that made sense.
All information and advice gratefully accepted.
Regards,
marks