Re-editting and uscaling adult video

[sinnistar]

Please be kind, lol, but not a problem if you are not....
I produced adult video 15 years ago and it's online and selling still today but I want to re-edit and upscale all the videos.
I shot primarily in HD and it recorded in mpeg2 in a folder with .m2v 1440/1080 video file and two .wav audio files. So now I can not load these old files in to Davinci, to re-edit, so I must render it to another format first? Or, I can use an old video editor that does accept these older files.
Initially I used pinnacle studio to edit my videos and rendered it in the same mpeg2 to make it easy on studio. Some files are even in the old avi format so after editing these in pinnacle I simple created an avi file. Then I used handbrake to render the edited file to a smaller mp4 1280/720 file, for the m2v, which is pretty universally played and which I had very little trouble with. The avi's I rendered to 720/480 mp4.
I'd like to upscale if possible. I could simply keep the 1440/1080, for the .m2v files, in a mp4 H264 as a final product which is a better quality but many are asking for 4K. It looks like H264 is still the format of choice for trouble free playing around the world? The avi files are a different story but they are good quality given I used a 3 head "semi-pro" or whatever they called it back then. I wonder if I can upscale these? I kept them in their 720/480 size when rendering to mp4.
I prefer not to have to learn adobe premiere or whatever is out there now as I never was technical, nor do I have the patience. I prefer to use something like pinnacle, which used to be awesomely easy, but I recall, around version 14, it turned complicated. Why? It's an insane world....not sure if the newest, version 26, is back to being easy? There are reviews that are all over the spectrum regarding this.
Instead of having to render these source files to use in Davinci or the like, and then learning Davinci, or the like, I prefer to grab an old pinnacle version which is easy to use and then render, again, using something like handbrake to render to mp4 H264 but up scaling the avi files and keeping the original 140/1080 for the mpeg2 files or even up-scaling these?
Any advice is welcome and thanks. You can earn yourself a free membership if you are at all helpful. https://sinnistar.com

[aedipuss]

i edit in vegas pro, which has no problem with older formats. no other editor should either. you are just going to start over with the original sources and re-edit a new output. 480, 720, 1080, etc are all options.

[sinnistar]

i edit in vegas pro, which has no problem with older formats. no other editor should either. you are just going to start over with the original sources and re-edit a new output. 480, 720, 1080, etc are all options.

I tried two programs, one asked to update file to a file that is editable, which it did but then still did not work and then Divinci would only load the wav files but not the video, said it wasn't supported. I'll try vegas pro.

[jagabo]

I could simply keep the 1440/1080, for the .m2v files, in a mp4 H264 as a final product which is a better quality but many are asking for 4K.

1440x1080 upscaled to 4K will not be 4K quality. You will have many unhappy customers if you sell them that as 4K.

[Alwyn]

Magix has a sale of Magix Movie Studio:

https://www.magix.com/us/video-editor/movie-studio/

Movie Studio (formerly Movie Edit Pro) eats MPEGs for breakfast, so it should open your M2Vs. Fast re-encoding to whatever format and resolution you want.

Doesn't have some of the bells and whistles of Vegas or Magix VPX but it's not the same bells and whistles price.

For quick re-editing and export, it's great.

There is a trial version.

[sinnistar]

I could simply keep the 1440/1080, for the .m2v files, in a mp4 H264 as a final product which is a better quality but many are asking for 4K.

1440x1080 upscaled to 4K will not be 4K quality. You will have many unhappy customers if you sell them that as 4K.

Thanks for confirming this. People kept telling me I can upscale to 4K and I did not see how that was possible. I will keep them 140x1080 which is slightly better than the old ones while mixing in some enhances and call it good.

[johns0]

It's not worth upscaling until there's some program from the future that can give you higher resolution that didn't exist before.

[BarnZ]

Hi all,

Let me recommend a freeware program that allows you to perform high-quality upscaling : Shutter Encoder (https://www.shutterencoder.com).
1) Upload your video
2) Select your output format: AV1 (for example) and set the compression ratio to CQ=3 (or H264 if your computer is slow).
3) Instead of source, choose AI Real Life or AI Animation (to Upscale your video...)
Start encoding (this can take quite a while).

The output will be an upscaled video with very good quality...

Hope it helps

[jagabo]

People kept telling me I can upscale to 4K and I did not see how that was possible.

At best you'll get sharp edges but with no real detail between those edges. People start to look like mannequins. 1440x1080 to 3840x2160 isn't a huge upscale but I think many people will be disappointed when they paid for real 4K.