upsizing video

[govy]

I'm just starting to edit video and such. I've got some clips (captured from digital cameras and such, and some clips from the web) that I'm trying to "scale up" i guess you would call it. But I want to do it without loosing video quality (i'm dreaming right?). Is their a way that I can get everything to the same size without loosing the quality presented when its in its "smaller" form??

Don't know if I worded everything correctly............basically if I have a 600x400 (just and example) video or smaller, can I increase it fill out a TV screen without loosing the quality that appears to be there when you watch it small............

[RyderOCZ]

I don't do any Video editing, but I think I am right by saying no, unless there is some nice expensive software out there that will do it.

The reason I say no is that when you have a video that is X by X in size, that directly correlates to the file size and the amount of data that is in the file, so if you try to make it bigger, it will just "stretch out" the pixels and everything because there is no data to "fill in the blanks"

Did that make sense?

[govy]

That was the answer I gave myself, just wanted to see if there was some "BE" way of doing what I thought was the impossible, at least on my budget :)

[RyderOCZ]

Hopefully someone that "knows his $$$$" will stop in and offer some alternatives :D

[joeMan]

I should know the definative answer to this by now...but I don't. I am about 99% sure that Ryder is correct though - I think he nailed it.