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Darin Boville April 30th, 2006 12:44 AM

How far can I scale from HDV to SD?
 
Hello,

I'm somewhat new to this...

I have HDV footage of sea life (dolphins, whales, etc) which I would like a bit closer. End product is regular DV Widescreen. I know I can "zoom in" in Final Cut--but is there an exact scale setting that equals DV resolution? I'm working under the assumption that I can crop off HDV's "extra" pixels without harming those that remain.

I'm trying to see how far I can zoom in without losing resolution (in DV).

Thanks!

--Darin

Sam Sutch May 2nd, 2006 02:53 PM

Drop your HD footage onto a normal SD timeline ("sequence") and you should get a 1:1 ratio. You can then move it around and get what you want in frame.

-Sam

Kevin Shaw May 2nd, 2006 03:19 PM

In theory you should be able to zoom in as much as 200% and still get usable results, but in practice I've found 150% to be a more realistic limit.

Chris Barcellos May 2nd, 2006 03:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kevin Shaw
In theory you should be able to zoom in as much as 200% and still get usable results, but in practice I've found 150% to be a more realistic limit.

Kevin:

I've noticed that pulling in .m2t file into a SD time line, the zoom affect doesn't translate very well. When you use Cineform intermediate do you have better results ?

Kevin Shaw May 2nd, 2006 10:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Barcellos
I've noticed that pulling in .m2t file into a SD time line, the zoom affect doesn't translate very well. When you use Cineform intermediate do you have better results ?

I use Canopus Edius for editing, so my choices are native M2T or the Canopus HQ codec. Either one seems to work okay for zooming within the range I mentioned earlier, but Edius requires a workaround for SD output from HDV which causes problems with the zooming effect.


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