Converting Video in HD

Phate · 23 Apr 2006 at 12:58

Hey folks not sure if this is the right forum. but basically i video'ed a fair bit with my video camera last night just messing around and that, and i was wondering if anyone knew how to go about converting the video in HD, now ive got my main windows machine and my iBook here so if i need Mac OSX i can use it.

anyone got any ideas how to go about it?

Cheers

Clarkey · 24 Apr 2006 at 11:18

exactly the same as any other video, just at higher resolution..

Caged · 24 Apr 2006 at 12:18

Am I understanding that you want to convert your camcorder stuff recorded at PAL DV res into an HD format? Or you recorded in HDV or whatever and are looking to get it onto a computer?

Phate · 24 Apr 2006 at 12:20

Caged said:
Am I understanding that you want to convert your camcorder stuff recorded at PAL DV res into an HD format? Or you recorded in HDV or whatever and are looking to get it onto a computer?

Getting it onto the computer isnt a problem, firewire cable and job done, its converting it into an HD format, i no it can be done as a friend of mine did it with some footage but i havent been able to contact him.

Caged · 24 Apr 2006 at 12:22

What format is your camera recording?

Clarkey · 24 Apr 2006 at 12:24

you mean its not in HD to start with? If so, whats the point in scaling it up, you wont gain any quality you will only gain huge amounts of filesize.

Caged · 24 Apr 2006 at 12:29

Yeah that was going to be my response if you were just using a DV camcorder. Scaling it up won't do anything.

Phate · 24 Apr 2006 at 12:39

Caged said:
Yeah that was going to be my response if you were just using a DV camcorder. Scaling it up won't do anything.

oh i thought otherwise.

fair enough

cheers anyway guys

Caged · 24 Apr 2006 at 12:41

The best quality will be achieved by keeping it in PAL DV format and resolution in iMovie or whatever, and running a good deinterlace filter on it.

Sirrel Squirrel · 24 Apr 2006 at 13:36

keep it as it is when you edit it but when it comes to putting it on the net use the hd codec h.264, it'll keep the video at 720x576, it'll also look good and the file size shouldn't be too bad, have a look at my website in my signature and you'll see the hd videos are 720x576, look good and file size isn't too bad. To convert to h.264 I just used Apple compressor, which comes with Final Cut I think and will be in your apps folder.