I have an extensive collection of motion backgrounds I bought a few years back from a designer called Anthony Hottle.  They are PAL SD .mov files.  I've tried importing them into an HD timeline but they don't size up in 2D sufficiently to be able to go full screen.  My query is whether I'm missing someing in Liquid or if there's another way around the problem.  The loss of quality wouldn't be a problem for me because frankly they're too sharp for my use and I always had to blur the backgrounds.

If the answer's a fat No then I'll sell them on eBay to someone who's still working in SD.  They're useful backgrounds so that would be the last resort.

Perhaps someone could remind me, If I have to sell them I know I can't place a link here to an eBay lot but can I mention here that they're there without breaking the rules?

You can't use the 2D GPU editor for that. You should get them to full screen going into the clip properties and rescaling to fit or using the CPU editors.

I normaly use Boris or AE or Combustion to design my SD backgrounds, and of course Digital Juice. I am always in the market for more BG in SD. If you still interested in selling them, shoot me over a PM and I might be in the market to buy them if there what im looking for. Any of them corporate? Like money?

Thanks

I have converted quit a few of mine to 16X9 and then HD.  First I use Classic 2d or 3d to convert to 16X9 and fuse.  I do this for two reasons.  1) It's easier to work with SD video if changes need to be made, off setting maybe required with some video and other just doesn't convert well.  2) I think you get better quality if you don't make to big of a change at a time.

Then, you may want to convert the 16X9 files to HD.  I personally only change some of the favorites (changing some of the others when I have a little free time) again using Classic 2d or 3d to convet to HD.  I have done the conversion to HD by simply use the timeline setting fit both to great success if I didn't feel the utmost quality was required (I have found that this does not work with all formats).