Luckily, upscaling technology has seen major improvements over the past few years, especially in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI). 4K footage takes up a ton of space on your drives!.
They may not have a camera that is capable of shooting 4K. Some people are shooting at 1080p and upscaling their renders to 4K for YouTube. For example, if you’re watching an old standard-definition television show on a 4K UHD screen, it will look a bit stretched and blurry.īut, upscaling is not just for old footage. That number is increasing rapidly over the last few months as people can’t go out for entertainment during the pandemic. 4K Ultra High Definition (4K UHD) is now a standard feature in over 60% of the televisions sold in North America. In that article I focusing upscaling 720×480 (480i) into 1920×1080 (1080p) footage.įor one thing, video standards have changed in just a few short years. I originally wrote this article about 7 years ago, when a cinematographer friend of mine asked me to upscale footage for his reel from the 1990s to HD. When I started my career in video post-production, “standard definition” was, in fact, the standard. You don’t have a camera that can shoot 4K and want your video to be 4K (or other sizes). 
You work with old video footage that’s in the standard format. This article covers the tools to upscale your footage with great results. You can also upscale with software and plugins that have features to sharpen and clean up problems including blur, jagginess, color artifacting, and noise. Sure, you can simply scale the footage, but you will often get stretched and blurry results. Other terms you may hear are upsizing and uprezzing. The goal is to increase the size of the video while maintaining quality. Upscaling means stretching a smaller video to fit a larger screen. Issues you may run into with older footage. Upscaling with your NLE ( Adobe, Resolve, Vegas). What is upscale and why upscale your footage?.
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