by Ashyukun » Wed Apr 09, 2003 8:33 am
I take it you're talking about taking something like a 320x240 resolution video and making it something larger, like 640x480? Unfortunately, not matter what you do, it's not going to look as good as native high-res footage. But, it is possible to make it look halfway decent. My recommendation would be a combination of Lanczos Resize (should be in VDub now natively) and one of the sharpening filters. Use the Lanczos to increase the resolution to what you want, and then the sharpen to try and eliminate some of the blurring that occurs. Some other filters may not be a bad idea- see the main guide for some hints on using the 'cleaner' filters.
I assume you're talking Premiere 6 when you say 'Adobe 6' (there are hordes of Adobe products). When you import footage into Premiere, it automatically resizes it to the resolution you're editing at, IIRC. However, I generally don't trust it to do it well, and if I have to work with something that starts out smaller I'll do the resizing before importing it so Premiere doesn't have to resize the footage. I do know that AfterEffects' scaling/zooming works quite well though- it again combined with the sharpen effect looks pretty good at reasonable zoom levels.
Bob 'Ash' Babcock
Electric Leech Productions