Help me succesfully upscaling to HD format. - Movie Edit Pro 2014 Premium

Izkall escrito el 21.10.PM a las 17:59 horas

Title says it all. I'm a bit unsure how to do this properly in Magix, without losing too much quality.

From the start, I import my material. To take a specific example, I tried a source with the resolution 748x518. I've no problem editing the video and decide what rendering settings/codecs I want. But I struggle with how to handle the resolution aspects.

So after importing, there are basically settings on three places that touches resolutions. First, you can change video resolution by right clicking on your video above the timeline. Adding something high here will make it impossible to edit the video since the video will stretch all over your screen. One theory I had was to first edit the video completely, and before exporting, I change to my desired resolution (or my source resolution, in order to upscale once in export settings) -> Go export. But I find it hard to believe changing resolution in this one actually matters for the output? You should be able to tell me if this impact.

Secondly, you can go File > Settings > Movie settings, to get additional settings for resolutions and frame rate. Notice you also need to manually fill in your "Ratio" here, causing even more confusion to me. Again, same kind of questions appear. What am I supposed to put in here? Source information or my desired output format? And do I need to manually calculate the optimal ratio? Or should I not even touch these settings?

Lastly, you obviously have the final settings in the export options. where resolution and ratio needs to be filled again. And here I'll obviously have to do the upscaling, but I don't know whether or how this is affected by the previous settings in movie settings.

Right, to give you an idea of what I really want to do, is to keep the aspect ratio on the video, but upscaling to 720p or 1080p, which gives us 1038x720 and 1558x1080 for the video I mentioned earlier as an example. 1558x1080 should stretch out nicely on my 1680x1050 monitor when watching in full screen but instead the output is close to squared, and no difference if I select a 1920x1080 profile in the list. They also become much more blurry than a succesful upscaled video produced in another software.

I'll leave it there and see if you can guide me how to do it properly. My source is as said following:

748x518 (ratio: 1.443). And I want to achieve this:

1558x1080 (ratio: 1.443).

Comentarios

emmrecs escrito el 24.10.AM a las 11:02 horas

I see no-one else has offered any ideas to you so I'll just make one or two basic points about what you want to do.

First, MEP does not natively carry out any up-scaling (= "improving") process. There are software packages that purport to do precisely this but I've never really tried them so can't comment on their quality. I have seen for at least one whose name I can't remember (!) a still of an "improved" frame set against its original and I confess to being rather less than impressed.

Second, your input size of 748x518 seems very unusual. What is the source of these clips? You need to set MEP at the import stage to "accept" these figures, if that is possible.

Third, whatever the output format you want, if you set MEP to "enlarge" the frame size to 1558x1050, my understanding is all that will happen is that MEP will "stretch" the existing pixels. I'm pretty sure it cannot automatically create "more" pixels, whichis what you need. If it could, these new pixels would be merely copies of what is already there, leading to a potential "loss" of quality. You comment above on your output being "much more blurry" when you attempt to upscale; that is the reason.

Fourth, I don't understand at all what you mean in your third paragraph about "the video will stretch all over the screen". That suggests you are merely expanding/zooming the monitor screen. Again, this has NO EFFECT on the exported output.

Sorry to not be able to offer more positive answers to your questions but, at its core, I don't think MEP is the right software for what you seem to want.

daveesler escrito el 24.10.PM a las 16:08 horas

I'll leave it there and see if you can guide me how to do it properly. My source is as said following:

748x518 (ratio: 1.443). And I want to achieve this:

1558x1080 (ratio: 1.443).

Set your project for 748x518 and let the player like VLC scale-up the image on playback.

It is like taking 640x480 and blowing it up to 1920x1080... not a good idea.

iF you are not getting the correct aspect ratio on playback, use VLC and click always fit window, or play with the settings on full screen until you get it right.