upsizing video SD to HD

[truth of life]

How to upsize a SD video to HD. Kindly guide.

[Baldrick]

Use a dvd player or blu-ray player with upscaling to 1080p.

[truth of life]

like Arcsoft Total Media Theatre ? that will be for viewing only, Sir, I want to physically upscale, kindly guide.

[mammo1789]

like Arcsoft Total Media Theatre ? that will be for viewing only, Sir, I want to physically upscale, kindly guide.

Hi didn't mean Arcsoft he meant standalone dvd or blu-ray players that have hdmi 1080p upscalers (hardware ones) which are far superior to anything ( till now) software.

Depending on your material to answer your question you can use resizers in avisynth or specialized software's like

http://www.vreveal.com/ find the older version the new one doesn't have it

http://www.infognition.com/videoenhancer/ pretty good

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-instant-hd/ poor

http://www.borisfx.com/units/upRez.php shit

and of course the baldrick suggestion is best ( although not cheap ) depends what you like.

[dragonkeeper]

like Arcsoft Total Media Theatre ? that will be for viewing only, Sir, I want to physically upscale, kindly guide.

You do realize the upscale video will not be anywhere near HD quality. And if you plan on burning to disc you have few options. You can burn the upscaled video to a blank BD disk which would be kinda of a waste not to mention expensive, burn to a AVCHD or BD5/BD9. In either case it would require you to have a BD player, in which case you may as well burn to DVD and allow the player to upscale.
What is your end goal? What are you trying to achieve?

[truth of life]

Thanks....Thanks a lot to both of you Sirs.... very good and quick guidance. Sir, blu-ray player will be beyond my budget. Kindly tell me one or two DVD players which upscale to 1080p.

[dragonkeeper]

You can get a good blu-ray players as cheap as $60 bucks.
http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-DMP-BD75-Ultra-Fast-Booting-Blu-ray/dp/B004GGK2JI/ref=...1333882&sr=8-6

If $60 bucks is still to expensive here are a few upscaling DVD players, you can also check you local Wal-mart they usually have an Emerson that runs about $40.
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-DVP-SR500H-1080p-Upscaling-Player/dp/B0039XRUBM/ref=sr_1_1?...1334096&sr=1-1

Region free player.
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-DVP3560-Region-Upconverting-Player/dp/B004BI6MVS/ref=sr_...1334150&sr=1-3

[jamespoo]

never updcale it will kill the video and make it look bad

[yoda313]

never updcale it will kill the video and make it look bad

Really? I do it all the time with my ps3 and xbox 360 and it looks great to me. I haven't done it recently but one time I left the output at 480p and it was really flat. Once it went to 1080i it had that extra sparkle. I know its not "really" hd but it looks good.

So long as the tv or player has a decent upscaler internally there is no reason not to in my opinion.

If its not professionally produced or from a weak source like a bad vhs capture or something upscaling won't improve that. I'll agree to that. But if you are talking about a typical hollywood dvd there should be no reason not to do an upsale with hdmi or component output.

Edit - @jamespoo - everyone is certainly welcome to their opinions - I'm just saying my experience has been good with a ps3 and xbox 360 with sd material on my hdtv.

[Noahtuck]

@ yoda

I think maybe jamespoo was referring to the OP's comment,

like Arcsoft Total Media Theatre ? that will be for viewing only, Sir, I want to physically upscale, kindly guide.

As in converting SD to HD through software conversion, not upscaling through a standalone player or software player.

I also have TMT5 and even though it does an okay job of upconverting/upscaling, it does not come close to the hardware upconverting my standalone bluray players do on an SD dvd.

[truth of life]

Regards to everyone , you helped me a lot. Sir, one more question I want to ask is, if I transfer the SD Video to a HD Camera and then capture it as HD (though it is actually SD), will it improve the quality ? Kindly guide.......

[jagabo]

Every HDTV has an upscaler for standard definition video sources. The question is what device performs better upscaling, the TV, the DVD/Blu-ray player, the cable/satellite box, or software? With software you have the additional problem that you'll be reencoding the video with (presumably) a lossy codec so you'll have an additional level of quality loss. There is no HDTV or player now with an upscaler better than the best software upscalers (Infognition, nnedi3, etc.). But the upscalers in future HDTVs (and DVD/Blu-ray players) will improve. Anything you do in software now may eventually be outdated.

[truth of life]

OK Sir, regards and thanks................

[Hoser Rob]

You can't improve the quality by upscaling SD to HD. It's simple. The information is not there.

All you can ask for is that the upscaling be done properly, with no weird video artifacts added.

[dragonkeeper]

Regards to everyone , you helped me a lot. Sir, one more question I want to ask is, if I transfer the SD Video to a HD Camera and then capture it as HD (though it is actually SD), will it improve the quality ? Kindly guide.......

No.

[dwisniski]

Here is a good Avisynth script you can use to upscale SD to HD (720p is best). Load into MeGUI and encode using DXVA HD profile. Use dgmpgdec to make a .d2v file if your source is DVD or mpeg-2 files, i think you'll like the results ;

Mpeg2Source("C:\your file here.d2v")

dx = 1280 # destination width
dy = 720 # destination height
ox=last.width
oy=last.height
lanczosresize( int(round(ox*1.5/4.0)*4), int(round(oy*1.5/4.0)*4) )
tdeint(mode=-1,type=3).turnleft().tdeint(mode=-1,type=3).turnright()
spline36resize(dx,dy)

[jagabo]

Even sharper (keeping in mind that sharper isn't always better):

Mpeg2Source("C:\your file here.d2v", CPU=6)
nnedi3_rpow2(2, cshift="Spline36Resize", fwidth=1280, fheight=720)

Or:

Mpeg2Source("C:\your file here.d2v", CPU=6)
nnedi3_rpow2(4, cshift="Spline36Resize", fwidth=1920, fheight=1080)

If you're going to do this you'll probably want to deblock and dering the source. I used Mpeg2Source's CPU=6 for this. But there are other filters.