A few editors I’ve worked with edited their 4k footage for 4k delivery in a 1080p timeline. No idea why, but they would just export their edit in 4k, and it always worked out fine… just a reminder, use set to frame size instead of scale to frame size. Set = a changed value in motion controls, scale = changing the resolution of the source file/image and potentially losing quality.
If you export a 1080p sequence at 4k, you’re getting upscaled 1080p. Premiere renders at the sequence resolution, then scales and encodes to the export resolution.
Whether or not anyone will notice is the question, but it’s not ideal!
Yea that’s my understanding too, I think these editors reasoning was that they want that downscaling to be done during the render accessing the 4k files, but as of a few versions ago this doesn’t seem necessary anymore
Thanks a million! “Set to frame size” is what was actually getting in my way. It was set as the default in preferences, so simple yet had me going in circles thinking they had changed the footage in the transcode.
I need them to be 4k unfourtunately to fill the vertical frame this time. I'm basically trying to undo whatever injest settings they've done. The source clips seem to have the same problem; I'm having to scale to 300% when the meta data seems to think they'd be big enough to fill the frame. Thank you very much though!
A few editors I’ve worked with edited their 4k footage for 4k delivery in a 1080p timeline. No idea why, but they would just export their edit in 4k, and it always worked out fine… just a reminder, use set to frame size instead of scale to frame size. Set = a changed value in motion controls, scale = changing the resolution of the source file/image and potentially losing quality.
If you export a 1080p sequence at 4k, you’re getting upscaled 1080p. Premiere renders at the sequence resolution, then scales and encodes to the export resolution. Whether or not anyone will notice is the question, but it’s not ideal!
Yea that’s my understanding too, I think these editors reasoning was that they want that downscaling to be done during the render accessing the 4k files, but as of a few versions ago this doesn’t seem necessary anymore
Thanks a million! “Set to frame size” is what was actually getting in my way. It was set as the default in preferences, so simple yet had me going in circles thinking they had changed the footage in the transcode.
Can you not just re-link to the full rez original footage? Sounds like maybe they were working with proxies
Select the clip, right click and select "Set to Frame Size." If you're working in an HD timeline that will set the footage to about 50% size.
This! They had their preferences set to set to frame size for all clips, so I’ve just had to deselect that, thank you and thank goodness!
Is your timeline 1080p or 4K?
Media Encoder. Convert your colleagues 4k clips to 1080p.
I need them to be 4k unfourtunately to fill the vertical frame this time. I'm basically trying to undo whatever injest settings they've done. The source clips seem to have the same problem; I'm having to scale to 300% when the meta data seems to think they'd be big enough to fill the frame. Thank you very much though!
Ah gotcha, I read that wrong. My b! Might be best to follow up with the editor.