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There are additional “Enhanced” Optical Flow settings available in the “Motion
estimation mode” drop-down in the Master Settings panel of the Project Settings. The
“Standard Faster” and “Standard Better” settings are the same options that have been
available in previous versions of DaVinci Resolve. They’re more processor-efficient and
yield good quality that are suitable for most situations. However, “Enhanced Faster” and
“Enhanced Better” should yield superior results in nearly every case where the
standard options exhibit artifacts, at the expense of being more computationally
intensive, and thus slower on most systems.
New improved Motion estimation mode settings in
the Master Settings panel of the Project Settings
Motion range: When using mixed frame rate clips in a timeline that has Optical Flow
retiming selected, or when using Optical Flow to process speed change effects, this
drop-down menu lets you choose the default setting to use, small, medium or large
motion, for all speed and motion related calculations so you can try and improve the
result by matching the type of motion in the source media. This setting can also be
changed on a clip by clip basis in the Edit page Inspector.
Image Scaling
The Image Scaling panel contains settings that determine how and when clips are resized for
various reasons.
Image Scaling
These settings affect the methods used to resize clips in various situations.
Resize Filter: The first group of settings lets you choose the filter method used to
interpolate image pixels when resizing clips:
Smoother: May provide higher quality for projects using clips that must be scaled
down to fit an SD resolution frame size.
Bicubic: While the Sharper and Smoother options are slightly higher quality, Bicubic
is still an exceptionally good resizing filter and is less processor intensive than either
of those options.
Bilinear: A lower quality setting that is less processor intensive. Useful for previewing
your work on a low-performance computer before rendering, when you can switch to
one of the higher quality options.
Sharper: Usually provides the best quality in projects using clips that must be scaled
up to fill a larger frame size or scaled down to HD resolutions.
Override input scaling: Checking this box lets you choose an Input Sizing preset to
apply to the project.
Override output scaling: Checking this box lets you choose an Output Sizing preset to
apply to the project.
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