how to approximate DVX100a stretch with DVX?

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icicle22

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I need to pick up a second camera to use with my XL2 and I am considering the DVX100A but I have never seen it's stretch mode 16x9. 16x9 is crucial as I am producing tradeshow videos for large format 16x9 plasma monitors. Anyway I only have access to my friends DVX100 (non A) and it has just letterbox mode. I have imported some of this into Premiere Pro and scaled it to fit a true 16x9 project but it looks considerably bad (scaling artifacts and crap!). I know Premiere is not the best tool to resize video with.

So what I am asking is how can I get a good approximation of what the stretch mode will look like using the DVX100 and a PC? I have the entire Adobe Video Suite w/ AE and Photoshop. Also have vegas 5 but I admit I don't know how to really use it yet.

I just want to get a real good idea of what the quality will be compared to my Xl2 16x9. I know thoeretically it will be slightly lower res but from my 1-2 experiments it looks bad. I can only assume the algorithm in the DVX100A that stretches is much better than Adobes.

Can someone point me in the right direction here?

Thanks!
Marty
 
Re: how to approximate DVX100a stretch with DVX?

I've been rendering widescreen video from my 100 (not A) in Vegas 5 for the last year or so and it looks great. I shoot with the letter box setting and in "thin" mode (all my stuff is 24pA), then use the pan and crop setting in Vegas for 16:9 and render as widescreen 24p for DVD architect. Looks great on my plasma TV. People are always impressed. Granted it's a little softer than if the image was native 16:9 since in effect the pan & crop in Vegas is a digital zoom, but shooting in thin mode helps a lot and it's very useable.
 
Re: how to approximate DVX100a stretch with DVX?

I have been using a DVX100A for a short film that I am shooting right now. I chose to shoot 4:3 can crop in post becuase I was doing a lot of slowmotion with 60i and that doesn't stretch in camera well. This project is being mixed with stop motion that I am shooting with a D-SLR so it is being uprezzed to 1280x720 during the editing process. I have to say that the footage has held up amazingly well. Like 24peter said, it is a little bit softer than if I had used the Anamorphic adapter, but it looks really good. It mixes with the D-SLR footage to the point where people cannot tell the difference. D-SLR footage shot at 1540x1080. The D-SLR footage is much sharper but after color corrections the footage is so close that only in side by side still frame comparisons can you tell the difference.
 
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