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[girly]

The properties of my video files are MPEG-2 Video lower field first, can I make a HD movie in VS Pro X3 with these video files

Thanks

[Ken Berry]

Simple answer: yes.

Longer answer: you could make it into a Blu-Ray movie, but why would you bother? It is not going to improve the original quality -- it is likely instead to degrade it. To go from 720 x 480/576 to 1440 x 1080 or 1920 x 1080, the conversion process has to invent lots of pixels out of thin air, and it does so by simply copying nearby pixels.

There is also the complication that both HDV mpeg-2 and AVCHD mpeg-4 are both Upper Field First, so you would also face difficulties and artifacts in that conversion from your LFF mpeg-2. That is why I suggested Blu-Ray format which can use LFF and is HD mpeg-2 (when not using AVCHD direct in that same format).

[girly]

Thanks it sounds like too much work for nothing really plus if I make a Blu Ray movie I'd need a special DVD player so will stick to original format.

[Ken Berry]

I could understand it if, for instance, you mainly used HD video but had to include some SD mpeg-2 in a HD project. But simply making a full HD movie out of SD video makes little sense -- particularly if you don't have a Blu-Ray player...