My delivered product is to be a DVD.
I recorded a string quartet (so the action, as such, is fairly calm) using four HD camcorders with each recording at 1920 x 1080.
Three of the camcorders were static/unattended and set to cover different angles. It occurred to me that when editing (using multi-cam), to make these angles more interesting I could keyframe slow zoom ins and outs whenever I switch to one of them. I've only tried scaling between 100% to 115% so far and I'm very pleased with the result - no discernible pixilating.
Then I had another thought and I created a sequence set at 1280 x 720 into which I dragged the clips. I scaled all those down to 66.67% so that the frames are perfectly filled and I've tried key framing all the way from 66.67% up to 120% and the results, when played on an average set top box, seem just fine. Again no discernible pixilation.
I'm quite excited about the possibilities for my static camcorder angles as this will begin to look as if I have people actually working them BUT can it be so simple? Is there something I'm overlooking?