“Set to Frame-size” or “Scale to Frame-size”

[Dennis Radeke]

[Tom Laughlin] “I’ve been using the set to frame-size usually. Is this ok!?”

Yes, Premiere Pro has a very good scaler and does a good job of preserving detail when upscaling.

[Tom Laughlin] “It makes the pics and b-roll shots fill the screen but does this affect the quality?”

Yes, theoretically. But you’re not changing the size so much that viewers should notice. Also, with “Set” to frame size, you are not rasterizing the larger images, so you are preserving the original resolution, so really the answer to your question is no – no change in quality

[Tom Laughlin] ” I’m up-ressing correct? And with the pics, I’m down-ressing, correct?”

Anything bigger than 1080 is downrezzing
Anything smaller than 1080 is uprezzing.

Dennis – Adobe guy