As well as the 'fields' in the "Blowup" effect supposed equalling a 'field' in "film lingo", at one time in the original Meridian boxes, specifically Symphony with 'real-time ultimatte' I was told that the "blowup" effect was routed thru different electronics (did not go thru the DVE circuitry) and was 'cleaner' looking than the resize or straight DVE. When I tested it back in '96 it did appear cleaner on split screen tests. Because of that I still habitually use it to this day, I'm reasonably sure that the 'cleaner' path no longer exists, but old habits die hard.
Nick Hrycyk
--- On Sun, 5/22/11, Job ter Burg (L2B) <Job_L2@terburg.com> wrote:
From: Job ter Burg (L2B) <Job_L2@terburg.com>
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Blow Up Effect
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, May 22, 2011, 1:33 PM
AFAIK, the 'Field' parameter lets you set size from 0 to 12. That's about as precise as it get, I guess. But you can at least give them those values, so the DI house may figure out how any of those numbers translate into their scalers.
I don't think there's a technical difference, and I'm fairly sure there's nothing 3D about it.
My educated guess is that the Blow-Up effect is a film-style MC effect (from the early nineties), and I think that the 'field' and X/Y parameters would show up in a traditional film cut list. Perhaps the 'Field' entry actually has a true bearing on optical bank settings, but I'm not sure.
The effect doesn't seem that relevant in the current era of DI post, and it's probably being kept around for compatibility reasons. It might very well be older than Resize, it might also have been part of different software packages back in its day.
Why the editor used this effect, I have no clue. May just have been what he was used to.
J, NL
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