Upscaling SD to XDCAM EX or ProRes

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robertrogoz

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I am in the process of editing a documentary, shot over 4 years. Some of the initial footage was shot with DVX100 in 30p. What would be the best program/tool to uprez? The rest of the doc was shot in HDV and XDCAM EX.
 
I have had good results uprezzing using photoshop. Export from FCP as a TIFF sequence and then create a batch in photoshop to uprez (using their bicubic rasterizer). Also RedGiant do a plug-in for FCP called InstantHD that does something similar.

Also look at doing chroma resampling using the plug-ins from Nattress.
 
I've heard/seen good things about InstantHD Advanced. Not regular InstantHD because it doesn't have the Topaz Enhance technology built-in.

You're in luck that you shot 30p because progressive footage uprezzed looks a heckuva lot better than interlaced.

Speaking of which http://www.topazlabs.com/enhance/ to save some $$$ if you're more technically savvy. I had some issues running their standalone software but the results look good.

SCRATCH THAT! Topaz just upped their price from like $30-50 to $350. So you're not saving much vs. InstantHD Advanced BUT Enhance works within Final Cut Pro, not just After Effects. They used to sell a stand alone program but that seems to not be the case now. Darn!
 
I've tried Instant HD in Magic Bullet Suite going from some VX2100 footage (interlaced SD) to XDCAM and it looked decent.
 
UPDATE: OK I just checked the project. I upgraded my MB Looks to MB Suite. Within that I got both Instant HD and Resizer. Instant HD is for progressive and Resizer2 is for interlaced footage. So I used Resizer.
 
Chadfish said:
UPDATE: OK I just checked the project. I upgraded my MB Looks to MB Suite. Within that I got both Instant HD and Resizer. Instant HD is for progressive and Resizer2 is for interlaced footage. So I used Resizer.
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Hmm...interesting.

There is a difference between the algorithms in InstantHD Advanced and the ones in InstantHD. Apparently Red Giant recently discontinued the Advanced product which is a shame.

You can still get the same technology from http://www.topazlabs.com/enhance/ but Topaz now charges $350.00 for the luxury of their "super-resolution" video enhancement technology. From my experience it works really well, especially on progressive scan footage. For incorporating your slow motion 60fps footage into a 1080/24p (or 30p) timeline it delivers nicely. It used to be a $99 nicely though...
 
adamr316 said:
Hmm...interesting.

There is a difference between the algorithms in InstantHD Advanced and the ones in InstantHD. Apparently Red Giant recently discontinued the Advanced product which is a shame.
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Hopefully they just made InstntHD better by dropping the "Advanced" out of the name and rolling both into one.

Hey Adam, how's your doc about getting screwed by those people you did some work for going? I watched the first part on your Vimeo page, and I want to see the rest.
 
Chadfish said:
Hopefully they just made InstantHD better by dropping the "Advanced" out of the name and rolling both into one.

Hey Adam, how's your doc about getting screwed by those people you did some work for going? I watched the first part on your Vimeo page, and I want to see the rest.
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That's a good question for Red Giant, isn't it? I have a feeling it's not because Advanced was $250-300 and InstantHD (non-Advanced) was $100 when they were both available. Version 1.2 or whatever it is now is $99 so I am assuming it's not using Topaz Enhance's algorithms.

Thanks for asking! The documentary is ready for viewing except I still have to go through and make sure all the names and such are censored. I'm working on a wedding video edit at the moment so once I am finished that I can get back to completing the doc.

You'll definitely be getting a link to the online preview as I'm looking for feedback on it.
 
Cool Adam. I wrote a little something in the video comments already, but I'll add more when it's done. I need to know what it's for to critique appropriately.
 
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