How far can one zoom in Premiere with ML RAW?

[Terry Tibbs]

Hello!

Good to be back. ML Raw and Cinelog has worked out really well for me, and I'll certainly use it again, most likely when I come to do pick ups for my feature.

One question -

How far would you go with zooming on a quick shot?

Most of my film I shot on Canon C300 and I've zoomed in regularly to 130%, even 140% at times.

With the extra data in ML RAW, could I go to, say 160%?

I know the obvious answer is 'see how it looks', but I can't tell how it'll look on a festival/cinema screen.

Any opinions? It's one 3 second shot...

TT

[dpjpandone]

i regularly zoom in up to 150% on source material shot at 1728x724 and I still think it looks damn good. I've seen projects that were submitted 720p projected at 2k that look fine. The most noticeable artifact seen on a big screen is the aliasing from lineskipping. If you shoot crop mode you can push it a lot further.

[DeafEyeJedi]

Perhaps try 2.5k MLV in crop-mode and there you'll have even more room to zoom in during post?