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Choose “Max Render Quality” when downconverting from 4K to 1080p?
I just read a comment from Jon Doughtie on another thread where he told someone if they’re converting a video from 1080p to SD they should choose Max Render Quality. Should I use that when rendering my 4K video as 1080p? Or does it make a difference? Not burning to disc, just uploading to youtube.
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It gives you the best scaling quality. If that’s important to you/you have the time for the render time increase then use it.
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OK, by scaling I know I’m scaling the entire image down by going from 4K to 1080p but what about on my green screen stuff, where I’m using 1920×1080 backgrounds and then scaling my green screen characters down to size. Not as important?
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[Duke Sweden] “Not as important?”
I’ll just slap this here again: If that’s important to you/you have the time for the render time increase then use it.
If you’re not seeing any difference then you probably don’t need it and your final exports will be faster.
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The oversampling will probably give you somewhat cleaner edges.
I’d at least try an experiment with greenscreen removal at the full size then reducing to 1080 for compositing – just a hunch, I don’t have anything like that in front of me at the moment.
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Hi there Duke. Ultimately the answer is – it depends.
On some material you may observe a noticeable difference, and not so much in the case of other materials.
I will sometimes render some short chunks (10 seconds, something like that) both ways and compare.
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Adobe CC 2015.02 (as of 6/2016)
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Thanks, guys. With what I do, and where it ends up (youtube) I guess I really don’t need the extra rendering time.
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