Can one ever "polish a turnip" ? (Improve fundamental qualities)
by david lincoln brooks
on
Jul 6, 2008 at 1:42:28 pm
I have been trying to author, for DVD purposes, an MPG which only had a video Mbit/s of 1.25.
In preparing it for DVD format, I have the opportunity to jack the video bitrate much, much higher.
But I have a sneaking suspicion that, while one can make things sharper and better colored in AE, there is probably little one can do to improve the basic quality of a video recorded at 1.25 Mbit/s.
Can one ever really "polish a turnip"? ie., get less blockiness, artifacts, restore a video to a better, truer state.... if it is fundamentally limited in quality to begin with?
The only things which matter in life are Art and Children. (Georges Seurat)
Re: Can one ever "polish a turnip" ? (Improve fundamental qualities) by Dave LaRonde on Jul 9, 2008 at 6:38:49 pm
[david lincoln brooks]"Can one ever really "polish a turnip"? ie., get less blockiness, artifacts, restore a video to a better, truer state.... if it is fundamentally limited in quality to begin with? "
Sorry, no. While I prefer to refer to this non-existent Holy Grail as putting lipstick on a pig, the truth remains from the days of IBM 360's, Cobol and Fortran: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
