Video enhancer (software)

[kalemvar1]

Hello all.

I'm using video enhancer for sometime (by trial and mistake) and there's a point I can't figure out yet. Why using twice super resolution codex to pass from 480p to 1080p and the result is very good but why my video file pass from 45:10 to 45:03 min. But the audio is still 45:10

Source is: interlaced 29,97 fps, NTSC DVD

Thanks

Kalemvar

[LMotlow]

480p is not interlaced, and neither is 1080p. What do you think "p" means?. If it really is interlaced, it ain't "p". And if it is interlaced as DVD usually is, you're wrecking it by resizing interlaced video. DVD can also be telecined. Resizing telecined video without inverse telecine is another very creative way to bork a video. You might also find a more destructive piece of software than a product from WonderShare, but offhand it's anyone's guess what that would be.

What's a "super resolution codex"? You don't really think you're going to resize a DVD without re-encoding it, do you?

[kalemvar1]

thanks LMotlow

I should stay with my 480x720 DVDs instead of trying to modify them with video enhancer.

Thanks for your help

[LMotlow]

Really, it depends on why you want 1080p. Most people think that upsizing standard def video to 1920x1080 will make it look like "HD". It won't. It will look like standard definition resized to something bigger and more blurry. It definitely will not look like HD. Another point to consider is that DVD is either interlaced or telecined. Budget NLE's do a pretty horrible job of deinterlacing, resizing, re-interlacing, and re-encoding. Interlaced DVD at 29.97fps NTSC or 25fps PAL becomes 59.976 progressive NTSC or 50fps progressive PAL, both of which are invalid frame rates for 1920x1080 BluRay. If the DVD is telecined it has to be inverse-telecined before it can be resized and re-encoded.

You can try the real pricey stuff like Vegas Pro or Pemiere Pro to do specifically what you want. But frankly there is a lot of free software around that will do a better job than those big names for your specific purpose. But the main point is, unless your DVDs are somehow a total mess or nightmare, don't expect the results to look "better" after all the effort.

[theewizard]

don't recode your DVD's just play them with a GOOD dvdplayer, that has GOOD scaling built in