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Zoom In or use 4K Clip

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Mahmut Akay

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There are about 4/5 shots that I have zoomed into, at around 200%, in a 2K (2048x1024) workflow.

The reason for the zoom ins are to avoid some mistakes.

Would it be better to insert 4K clips for those specific shots?
 
What resolution will you be exporting? If just to 1080 or 720 and you have a deadline to meet, I would just leave it zoomed in as you probably will not notice the resolution change between shots. But, as will all things there a number of factors that come into it. If you have the time...maybe insert 4k clips so you don't have to worry about it
 
I, personally, have never found my "push-in" shots to be effective. For some reason, they always look very soft to me, whereas the 4K original was not. Maybe I just don't know how to focus.

Stephen
 
Stephen Pruitt said:
I, personally, have never found my "push-in" shots to be effective. For some reason, they always look very soft to me, whereas the 4K original was not. Maybe I just don't know how to focus.

Stephen
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More likely you have a workflow that rasterizes the image at 1080, then does the push in from that, rather than re-cropping the 4K.
 
The image has actually come across soft to me as well.

I'll be exporting 1080.

So should I insert 4K images in lieu of zooming into the 2K footage?
 
Mahmut Akay said:
The image has actually come across soft to me as well.

I'll be exporting 1080.

So should I insert 4K images in lieu of zooming into the 2K footage?
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Yes, absolutely. Here's what's hapening:

You are finishing in 1080 -- that means 1920x1080. 2K refers to the long dimension of the image, so 2K (2048) is only 128 pixels wider than 1920x1080. When you blow it up to 200%, you are blowing up a 1K (1024 pixels wide) image to fill a 1920x1080 raster. Of course it's going to be soft.

Starting with a 4K (4096 pixels wide) frame, you will have sufficient resolution to crop in 50% without losing sharpness. All you lose is the benefits of downsampling. You'll find the shots will look fine in the sequence.
 
D Fuller said:
Yes, absolutely. Here's what's hapening:

You are finishing in 1080 -- that means 1920x1080. 2K refers to the long dimension of the image, so 2K (2048) is only 128 pixels wider than 1920x1080. When you blow it up to 200%, you are blowing up a 1K (1024 pixels wide) image to fill a 1920x1080 raster. Of course it's going to be soft.

Starting with a 4K (4096 pixels wide) frame, you will have sufficient resolution to crop in 50% without losing sharpness. All you lose is the benefits of downsampling. You'll find the shots will look fine in the sequence.
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Cheers Fuller.

So I'll export those specific clips at 4096x2048...and then import them into the 2048x1024 sequence.
 
This is good news, as it will allow us to create new shots that we didn't actually take the time to make.

Thanks for the information.

Stephen
 
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