Topic: Which one to do first: upscale or transcode?

I wonder, I'm trying to "refurbish" some old videos to 4k and 60fps. What's the good way to do this, upscale first then transcode? or the other way round?

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Re: Which one to do first: upscale or transcode?

I think you need to do upscale first.
This way you will get smaller pixels and more precise motion vectors to get more correct intermediate frames.

3 Reply by James D (edited by James D 19-10-2020 11:54:16)

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Re: Which one to do first: upscale or transcode?

Upscaling video really helps for old low-res videos. I remember having a bi-linear downscaled video with small font text so I couldn't read that text! in any frame! But then I upscaled video and suddenly I could. Text was blurry but it actually was readable.