SD-HD Title Uprez
by Alexander Lee
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Aug 16, 2008 at 1:58:59 am
I have a standard definition movie shot in 24p DV with the DVX-100 that I need to uprez to HDCAM. I'm going to a post house to get an SD-HD uprez using the Snell & Wilcox Ukon. Problem is, they don't seem to have a clue about what I should do to prepare my hundreds of subtitles and lower thirds for an HD uprez. Do I just make a new HD sequence within FCP, copy and paste my SD subtitles and voila? This is my 1st time so I have no clue how to go about this. I would highly appreciate any info you guys could give me.
Re: SD-HD Title Uprez by Shane Ross on Aug 16, 2008 at 5:29:16 am
Typically titling is done after you uprez. So you will need to capture the newly upconverted footage...most likely 10-bit uncompressed...and you will need a pretty serious RAID for this. Then if your titles were made with the FCP title generator or Boris title 3D...the FCP titlers, then coping and pasting them to the new sequence should then make them that resolution. Because FCP's titlers don't make them media. Any graphics you have will have to be redone as HD.
Re: SD-HD Title Uprez by Marcus Taylor on Aug 16, 2008 at 6:26:50 pm
Hi,
I've just done this but, while I had a few hiccups a long the way, adding subtitles to an HD version is simple.
My post house created the HD Uprezz in the form of one long movie QT file. I imported that file into my new HD project (Apple Pro res format) and then pasted the new QT over the old edits (another video track) and let the old SD subtitles sit on top as before.
I have to render again but still, quite straight forward.
Re: SD-HD Title Uprez by Alexander Lee on Aug 16, 2008 at 10:46:22 pm
Thanks guys. I got this info from my colorist:
Ideally the post house would upconvert a textless version of the film and give you a QuickTime of the film HD with no titles. Then place the upconverted QuickTime of the film into an HD sequence in fcp and copy and paste the subtitles from your sd sequence into the new hd sequence at the same timecodes. They should look great. From this sequence you can make your final deliverables.
