Upscaler

Select an arbitrary region of your media and enlarge it to fit or fill the entire video frame.

Compatibility

Upscaler is compatible with Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Parameters

Presets

Presets contain a snapshot of your effect configuration. While no built-in presets are available through this parameter, you can still save and load your own preset files.

When you save parameter configuration to a file on disk, this file can later be loaded to recreate the same effect configuration. Presets generated in one video application can be used by the same plug-in running in a different video application.

Working with the Presets Menu

Upscaler

Setup

Enable this parameter to designate the area to be enlarged. Turn it off to view the final output.

Crop Region

A rectangular region, centered in the frame by default.

Initial selection

Placement

Controls how media is scaled within the current frame:

Comparing Fit (left), Fill (center) and Stretch (right) methods.

Comparing Fit (left), Fill (center) and Stretch (right) methods.

  • Fit: media is scaled proportionally to fit inside the frame. When the media does not match the aspect ratio of the video frame, some areas remain empty after scaling (pillarboxing or letterboxing).
  • Fill: media is scaled proportionally to fill the entire frame. When the media does not match the aspect ratio of the video frame, portions of the media fall outside the frame and thus are invisible (unless further scaling is applied).
  • Stretch: media is scaled non-proportionally to have the same dimensions of the frame. When the media does not match the aspect ratio of the video frame, this results in all geometric features being deformed.

Animation

Build In/Out

Build In/Out lets you enable and control animation progress.

When the animation is Off, no transition into or out of the effect occurs.

When the effect is set to build in and out by Trimming, the following parameters are displayed:

The Trim slider defines a range where the effect has been fully built. Any time outside this range is spent building the animation in or out. For example, if the Trim range is set between 20% and 80%, the effect builds in from the start of the clip up to 20% of its duration. The effects builds out from 80% to the end of the clip. If the clip were 5 seconds long, the build in and out animations last 1 second each.

When the effect is set to build in and out through a Duration, the following parameters are displayed:

The Build In (secs) and Build Out (secs) give you an exact way to decide how long each animation should last. Should your selection not be applicable to the current clip, a warning will appear in the output. For example, if your clip lasts only 3 seconds, it would be impossible to have the build in and out animations both last 2 seconds each (as the total would be 4 seconds).

When the effect is set to build in and out through Keyframes, a single parameter is displayed:

The Build In (Easing) and Build Out (Easing) parameters let you choose the animation curve when animating by Trimming the clip or by specifying a Duration.

The Progress parameter gives complete control over the animation to you. You will need to keyframe the Progress parameter using features of the video app.