slightly enlarging the footage - problem?

[mpalmer12345]

My lens protector wasn't screwed on completely correctly, and so a bit of the edge from it shows up in some of my wide angle footage.

If I take the 720p HD footage and enlarge it from 100% to 110% to cover up the irregular black edge, is such a small loss of resolution going to be visibly detectable to somebody in the know? I.e., are things like jaggies going to start making an appearance because of the downscaling?

 

[David Saraceno]

I've done this to change a minor problem.

I didn't detect much of a change

 

[THoff]

If you use good tools to resize this won't have a significant impact.

Depending on what your final delivery format is, you may also want to consider cropping the image with a garbage matte to cover up the outside 10%. This area usually isn't visible anyway if you are playing a DVD on a TV due to the overscan area.

 

[mpalmer12345]

Garbage matte makes sense, yes. Instead of enlarging, I also could blur the 10% margin area, which would be an interesting way to cover up the problem and make the edge less distinct in an artsy way.