Best upscaling of SD footage to HD

Why hardware?

Lots of software that can be used, even built in filters in premiere. Check out what the matrix filter can do... i converted some SD work to HD this way and the increase in sharpness blew me away.
 
starcentral said:
Why hardware?

Lots of software that can be used, even built in filters in premiere. Check out what the matrix filter can do... i converted some SD work to HD this way and the increase in sharpness blew me away.
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It makes sense to sharpen footage you downscale but to me it does not make any sense to sharpen SD footage you upscale.

Most critical, in my view, is to make sure that if the SD footage is interlaced to do the best possible deinterlacing (with frame doubling) before you upscale. Also you should update the colors from Rec.601 to Rec.709.

Here are two examples of properly deinterlaced and upscaled SD videos:


 
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Cary Knoop said:
It makes sense to sharpen footage you downscale but to me it does not make any sense to sharpen SD footage you upscale.

Most critical, in my view, is to make sure that if the SD footage is interlaced to do the best possible deinterlacing (with frame doubling) before you upscale.

I have some vintage SVHS footage I'll be using in a project. What is your recommended software for de-interlacing the transferred digital video files (.avi uncompressed)? I'm using Vegas 12 to edit.

Ken
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Cary Knoop said:
I have some vintage SVHS footage I'll be using in a project. What is your recommended software for de-interlacing the transferred digital video files (.avi uncompressed)? I'm using Vegas 12 to edit.
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I would recommend vapoursynth (or avisynth) using QTGMC and KNLMeans.
 
Vegas 14 with Smart Upscale does a pretty good job and 14 has the ability to setting your de-interlacing settings.
 
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