[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ DV -> HD conversion..., Interesting new product

As the march to HD moves forward heres a company which is offering software which can convert your "old" (hehe) stylie DV footage to band spanking new HD. Bear in mind that it wont increase the quality of your footage to HD but does convert it to a format HD will understand. It costs $249.95 but does come with a Dolby AC3 encoder which willbe a god send to any one doing DVD authoring and is sick to death of the sheer size of PCM audio, although i'm uncertain at this time as to whether the AC3 encoder is Dobly Certified or simply one of the GNU, public domain developed alternatives.

www.transitionsoftware.com

Awai.

This post has been edited by Awai: Sep 17 2005, 10:06 AM

But most consumers aren't going to mess with NLE's that can handle up converting. They have DV and want it in HD - one simple program to take care of the job - consumers will jump at it.

And for us pros that already have gigabytes of old DV footage we want up converted, I don't want to run everything though my NLE just to get HD - I'll 'dummy down' to get the task taken care of simpler/easier/quicker.