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Post #415925

Author
Nicholas J. Michalak
Parent topic
The Empire Strikes Back "1980 Theatrical version" Reconstruction - Adywan (Released)
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Date created
22-May-2010, 8:19 PM

In my film THE FIXER, I had to upscale 4x3 letterboxed standard definition video to match the resolution of 16x9 video (long story as to why).  That alone is about 134% upscale, and it immediately begins to show softness and grain since everything's been magnified.  You can add a sharpen filter, but you're basically making a choice to either have soft image or a grainy one.  To upscale 640x480 interlaced footage to 16x9 720p, that's gonna get ugly.

-NJM