Upscaling DVXfootage to HD in FCP

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I was supposed to be upgrading my camera and getting a DSLR this week, but it looks as if my funds arent coming through like I wanted them too. So now it's back to square one with my DVX100B. I love this camera, and it has been good to me. But it's hard to compete with all of these HD DSLR's taking over. I saw this video on youtube and I like the look it gives to the DVX footage....any advice on in camera or editing settings to get this look?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHQMzLFmymQ
 
that looks horrible. i would never be able to pass that as HD.
just wait man, you will soon be able to get some money and buy an HD camera...heck, a T3i is selling on craigslist for about 800$!!!
 
Yea. The thing is though...I have to buy a whole new Macbook and Final Cut Pro to be able to edit my HD footage. Along with a few decent lenses I'm looking at about $4000 dollars, I'm just doing what I have to do in the meantime. Ummm...thanks anyway.
 
you can get pretty good results going up to 720p see this vid ( http://vimeo.com/15565472 ) but by upscalling you aren't magically making your sd footage hd, if its shot in SD you arent going to resolve any more detail than what was originaly captured by the camera. the main reason to export in 720 is to convert the pixel aspect ratio to square, so your videos are displayed correctly on modern displays, as all hdtv's/ smartphones / and computer monitors use square pixels. thing is with the dvx, its so sharp for an sd cam anyway, to the untrained eye it could easily apear to be native 720p.

you can also do a couple of things in the dvx scene files to help keep your footage looking clean if you go down the hd upscale route; first thing is to dial down the detail level to -3 or -4, this softens the image slightly but also reduces aliasing so your footage will appear less pixelated when blown up, and also dial in some detail corring to help reduce noise, even if your image has a tiny bit of noise, it can become really apprent when you upscale so anything you can do to avoid noise is a help. also try and shoot at the cameras exposure sweet spot, in my experinece an apature of 4.8 to around 9 ish seems to net you the sharpest pictures. whole hd upscale thing is a bit of black art, generally it just takes a lot of experimentation to get good results
 
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