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But let's take a look at a couple of examples.
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What I have discovered is that whilst some shots I have tried have had mixed results, in some cases the results have been remarkable.Īnother thing that has become apparent whilst performing these experimentations is that cameras that we once regarded as being incredibly noise free and quiet, by today's standards are anything but! It is eye opening to go through some of this footage, even from my high definition XDCAM stuff from the PDW-320, to find just how far cameras have advanced today. Which one best suits your own footage will take some experimentation. One of those is the ability to perform AI interpolation of frames to alter playback frame rates, and another is a much more fine tuneable upscale option.
Topaz Video Enhance AI has undergone a couple of major updates since I first reviewed it. Top image is the PsF footage treated by Kyno as progressive scan, bottom image is with interlaced processing. Below: A 200% crop of some seminar footage. It's something to be mindful of with PsF footage though. It plays back at the correct speed though, because each frame is shown twice, so it still goes perfectly well on a 25p timeline.
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If I told Kyno it was interlaced footage I ended up with the full resolution, although software thinks the resultant footage is 50fps. I found that when I exported the footage by telling the software it was proscan it seemed to line double the image, causing aliasing and of course a reduction in effective resolution. This was a way of storing progressive scan footage within an interlaced stream, and while it worked and should be treated by software as being true proscan, it sometimes isn't. This took a little bit of experimentation because I usually always shot footage at 25p, which on the PDW-510 used Sony's PsF (Progressive Segmented Frame) system. I tried to use Sony's own Catalyst Browse software, but for some reason it kept greying out the export button once footage was selected, so it fell to Less Pain software's Kyno (now owned by Signiant) to do the work of transferring and transcoding the footage to ProRes. I wasn't prepared to mess around with command line software such as ffmpeg, so I searched for some more user friendly alternatives that could read the MXF files properly. I can only assume that the SD version of XDCAM was forgotten to the passage of time and that current software will only read the more modern solid state recording incarnations such as from the EX1/EX3 and later SxS and SD based cameras. None of the current NLE software would read the camera's MXF files if I copied them directly to my hard drive, despite claims to the opposite. Transferring the footage from the U2 drive wasn't quite as straightforward as I expected. More of which you'll get to enjoy in another article.įor now let me focus on what kind of results you can expect. I discovered a number of different projects on the discs, some of which I'd rather forget! But I found everything from footage from my documentary on Matt Coulter, the motorcycle stunt daredevil known as The Kangaroo Kid, martial arts seminars, and a comical fight sequence from a failed indy feature I worked on.
Extremely clean images and PsF progressive scan capabilities mean that the cameras were lauded for their image quality.
Granted, my PDW-510 wasn't producing the 50Mbps 4:2:2 results of the pricier PDW-530, but even still these were generally seen as the pinnacle of standard definition technology outside of Digibeta. I'd been looking forward to doing this for a while to see what Topaz Video Enhance AI could do with footage that, at the time, was regarded as being very high quality standard definition.
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I recently dug up some of my XDCAM discs from circa 2005, and with the extremely kind help from the people at Sony Professional Systems Europe they managed to dig up a PDW-U2 XDCAM optical disc drive for me to use to transfer some of my old footage to my current editing machine.
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I've long since ditched my DV decks and most footage available in SD resolution online is highly compressed due to the inferior settings YouTube uses with 360p and 480p. Impressive though that was I had yet to be able to try it on some high quality master footage. How well can old video footage be restored? Here's what happens when you apply Topaz Video Enhance AI to high quality SD XDCAM footage.Ī short while back I reviewed Topaz Video Enhance AI and I was thoroughly impressed at how it could restore highly compressed and really quite mangled footage.
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