Instant HD

Product

Red Giant Instant HD

Category

Video Effects tools

Brief Description

Crystal Clear HD with One Click

Instant HD up-converts DV video into a variety of HD video formats. You can choose from a list of preset resolutions to make it easy to integrate DV video into your next High Definition production. When scaling from standard definition (SD) to high definition (HD), the missing pixels must be generated in an intelligent way. Instant HD provides a high-quality method for converting SD sources to HD within your favorite video application.

IMPORTANT NOTE The product is specifically designed to work with progressive (non-interlaced) images. That means that if you are starting with interlaced video such as a standard Sony PD150 DVCAM capture, you will need to convert the image to progressive in the host application before applying Instant HD.

If you use a camera that has a progressive mode like the Panasonic DVX100 or the Canon XL2 there is no need to pre-process the material in any way.

Supports After Effects, Final Cut Pro & Premiere Pro

Price

Please contact us for pricing

Main Features

Professional level results with easy to use options

Includes five simple controls: Output Size, Filter Type, Sharpness, Quality settings, and Antialiasing
Output resolution presets lets you quickly choose the right HD output resolution
Improve the final appearance with integrated sharpening
Antialiasing smoothes the rough edges of DV video

Uses

Integrate SD video into your next HD project
Up-convert NTSC or PAL Standard Definition to High Definition
Up-convert NTSC or PAL Standard Definition to High Definition
Convert web cam and cellphone source material to Standard Definition video
Scale SD video for pan and scan adjustments
Use Instant HD output with Magic Bullet to deliver professional "film look" HD masters
Scale still images to HD
Conform standard defintion motion graphics for high definition broadcast

User Comments

“I recently up-rezzed a feature length film from SD to HD in a Quantel EQ suite. Because we missed a few clips I chose to try InstantHD rather than go back into the suite. Amazingly, the shots I up-rezzed myself with InstantHD were indistinguishable from those run through the very high end Quantel. Bravo!” Joel Rasmussen, Producer, Before the Music Dies

"It does an amazing job..." www.outside-hollywood.com

"...my old close-up shots have turned out spectacular." David Regenthal

"We are currently doing a teaser for The Rapture and the HD version is really impressive, the original footage of 1.42 mins was created on dv (www.rapturethemovie.com) and we used instant HD to create a hd version for some of our potential investors, they loved the look of it when played back on hd TV. it's worth the money!" Johnny Wu, Media Design Imaging

System Requirements

Instant HD is a plug-in and requires a host application to operate.

Instant HD requires one of the following

Final Cut Pro v4.1 (or later, including 5.0)
Premiere Pro v1.5 (or later, including v2.0)
Adobe After Effects 6.0 (or later)

Minimum system requirement

Mac OSX 10.3 G4 or higher, 512 RAM
Windows XP, Pentium 4 (or equivalent), 512 RAM

More information

www.redgiantsoftware.com

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