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Anti-alias edges: A second group of settings lets you choose how to handle edge anti-
aliasing for source blanking.
Auto: Adds anti-aliasing when any of the Sizing controls are used to transform the
image. Otherwise, anti-aliasing is disabled.
On: Forces anti-aliasing on at all times.
Off: Disables anti-aliasing. It might be necessary to turn anti-aliasing off if you notice
black blurring at the edges of blanking being applied to an image.
Deinterlace quality: (only available in Studio version) A fourth group of settings lets
you choose the quality/processing time tradeoff when deinterlacing Media Pool clips
using the Enable Deinterlacing checkbox in the Clip Attributes window. There are two
settings:
Normal: A high-quality deinterlacing method that is suitable for most clips. For many
clips, Normal is indistinguishable from High. Normal is always used automatically
during playback in Resolve.
High: A more processor-intensive method that can sometimes yield better results,
depending on the footage, at the expense of slower rendering times.
Input Scaling
Contains one setting, Mismatched resolution files, that lets you choose how clips that don’t
match the current project resolution are handled. There are four options:
Center crop with no resizing: Clips of differing resolution are not scaled at all. Clips that
are smaller than the current frame size are surrounded by blanking, and clips that are
larger than the current frame size are cropped.
Scale full frame with crop: Clips of differing resolution are scaled so that the clip’s
shortest dimension is fit to match the frame. Excess pixels are cropped.
Scale entire image to fit: The default setting. Clips of differing resolution are scaled so
that the clip’s longest dimension is fit to match the frame. The shorter dimension has
blanking inserted (letterboxing or pillarboxing).
Stretch frame to all corners: Useful for projects using anamorphic media. Clips of
differing resolutions are squished or stretched to match the frame size in all dimensions.
This way, anamorphic media can be stretched to match full raster, or full raster media
can be squished to fit into an anamorphic frame. An added benefit of this setting is that
it makes it easy to mix anamorphic and non-anamorphic clips in the same project.
Output Scaling
These settings let you optionally choose a different resolution to be output via your video
output interface, for monitoring, outputting to tape, or rendering. In particular, if you set the
resolution in the Render Settings list of the Deliver page to something other than the Timeline
Resolution, these settings are used to make the change (for example, if you’re rendering a
downconversion of the current timeline). This can be used in situations where you’re working on
a high resolution 4K project, but you want to monitor using an HD display and output HD
resolution media for approval.
Match timeline settings: Turned on by default, so that these settings mirror the
Timeline Resolution, Image Scaling, and Input Image Scaling settings described above.
Turning this checkbox off lets you choose different settings for monitoring, outputting
to tape, or rendering, using the other settings in this group.
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