PROCEDURE TO UPREZ NATIVE 4x3 PROGRESSIVE SCAN FOOTAGE TO HIGH QUALITY 16x9 MASTER FOOTAGE
Using the program Photozoom Pro, you can uprez your 4x3 letterbox footage to high quality anamorphic 16x9 footage. If you do not own this program, a demo version is available at the following URL: http://www.trulyphotomagic.com/shor...?page=downloads Make sure you download the pro version.
NOTE: This procedure is optmized for footage shot using the letterbox mode using f5 or f6 using a Panasonic DVX. Footage uprezzed originating in Squeeze mode or with the anamorphic lens will not be as dramatic. Progressive scan footage only, interlaced footage will not work successfully. Final footage is intended for a widescreen project. I have only tested this using Adobe Premiere 1.5 so the slant in this tutorial is towards that program. I have no knowledge of the capabilities of other programs regarding this procedure and I encourage you to search elsewhere for your answers or simply experiment..
Here are the steps:
Step One:
Export your letterbox footage from your 4x3 timeline as TIFF frames.
Step Two:
Launch Photozoom Pro and click on New Batch . At the bottom of the screen choose either Add Images or Add Folder . Import the frames you just exported from your NLE. (I believe there is a limit of 1170 frames per batch so you may need to do multiple batches). EDIT: I have since imported more than 1800 images without a problem....so not sure what the limit is.
Settings are the following:
New Size for letterboxed footage: 720 x 640 (use 720x618 if you want to keep the entire letterbox frame, even though it will be slightly out of aspect ratio)
or
New Size for already cropped footage (meaning footage shot in squeeze mode, with the anamorphic lens, or cropped from letterbox mode using another program): 720 x 480
Make sure* Maintain Aspect Ratio is deselected before you enter the dimensions.
Leave the resize method as S-Spline and settings as Generic (You can play with the settings and experiment for yourself later as you desire)
Step Three:
Click Run .
Click Browse and choose a folder to dump the new images into. (It's best to create a new folder on your hard drive for the uprezzed images for simplicity sake.)
Output format should be set to TIFF
Leave the rest at the default
Step Four:
Click Start Batch
Step Five:
When the batch processing is finished, import the newly created TIFFs into a 16x9 project in your NLE as a sequence so that a movie file is created.
Step Six:
Interpret your footage as "widescreen 16:9", then place on your timeline, render and you are done.
Here's an example of the before and after footage. I have added a scope letterbox to the uprezzed version to make it easily distinguishable. The difference is much more remarkable on a TV screen, obviously.
http://www.pinelakefilms.com/photozoom.html
BEFORE UPREZ
AFTER UPREZ |
