• DaVinci Resolve

  Working with 2.7K video (for 1080 or 4K export)

  Posted by Ben Singer on September 28, 2020 at 2:39 am

  New Resolve user here with a 2.7K footage and exporting quandary:

  I shoot a lot on a GoPro, often in the 2.7K option with in-camera stabilization which looks great. I primarily cut and export for YouTube.

  Recently in Resolve I edited a 2.7K video on a 4K timeline, which worked OK, despite very laggy playback even with my best efforts to use “optimized media.”

  On export, I went with 4K to match the timeline, but the end product was utter trash with massive, glitchy pixels everywhere. Nope. (See attached pics)

  Next I tried exporting the same sequence at 1080p. It took forever/ nearly an hour for a nine-minute video. And the results are not much better than the 4K ones, but a little less ugly.

  I’ve attached three photos showing the difference between (1) the original 2.7K footage (2) the 4K Resolve Export and (3) the 1080p Resolve export.

  Of course there is always some quality loss from the original files to the edited product, but I’m not happy about my results so far at all.

  I usually edit on Premiere Pro, with the same 2.7K footage. I always make my Premiere timelines match my footage by dragging a clip on the “new item” icon.

  Would using a 2.7K resolution (2704 × 1520) timeline help? I’ll still need to export in something like 1080 or 4K. The timeline is just a “middle man” between the original files and the final export, right, so I doubt this will help much.

  Is there an easy way to match your timeline to your clip resolution in Resolve, other than manually inputing it into the custom field in timeline settings? I tried right-clicking a clip and “create new timeline from clip” but it doesn’t make the timeline in that resolution).

  I also noticed that in Premiere I had been exporting my 2.7K videos using Premier’s YouTube 2160p 4K UHD preset with a VBR 2 pass. Now I see that preset uses 2720×1530 as a resolution — so not true 4K at all, but a lot closer to the native 2.7K resolution I am shooting. Weird. But it was working for me.

  Too many details! But the take-home is that my experience with editing and exporting 2.7K footage in Premiere yielded a much nicer looking final file, and I want to find out why.

  Thank you!

  

  

  

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