Oscarfan
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Industry standard is Avid, which I've never liked. But every place has their own preference.
As for SD to HD, it depends on the original video source. Really, unless it's film, which has no real set aspect ratio, all video sources are limited to their respective aspect ratio and size. By taking something SD and just exporting it to an HD file, you're not really improving the quality, you're just blowing up the footage to a larger size. There's some article out there about this kind of thing involving one of the modern-ish Star Trek series, where all the special, computer effects were produced for regular TV size, while everything else was film and the final products were cut on tape; the film parts can be transferred to HD, but the effects couldn't, which is why they'd never be fully upgraded to HD without spending millions of dollars to essentially re-cut the entire series.
Sesame's Throwback YouTube clips show you what happens in that scenario. Until they went digital, everything was tape (except the cartoons and films possibly). And you can't really upconvert tape without looking the the way their videos do - all interlaced and whatnot (though that may also be caused by timeline and export settings).
As for SD to HD, it depends on the original video source. Really, unless it's film, which has no real set aspect ratio, all video sources are limited to their respective aspect ratio and size. By taking something SD and just exporting it to an HD file, you're not really improving the quality, you're just blowing up the footage to a larger size. There's some article out there about this kind of thing involving one of the modern-ish Star Trek series, where all the special, computer effects were produced for regular TV size, while everything else was film and the final products were cut on tape; the film parts can be transferred to HD, but the effects couldn't, which is why they'd never be fully upgraded to HD without spending millions of dollars to essentially re-cut the entire series.
Sesame's Throwback YouTube clips show you what happens in that scenario. Until they went digital, everything was tape (except the cartoons and films possibly). And you can't really upconvert tape without looking the the way their videos do - all interlaced and whatnot (though that may also be caused by timeline and export settings).