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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.
Resize Filter Project Setting
The Resize Filter setting lets you choose the filter method that’s used to interpolate image
pixels when resizing clips:
Uses sharper filter: Usually provides the best quality for most projects, using an optical
quality processing technique that’s unique to DaVinci Resolve.
Uses smoother filter: May provide a more pleasing result for projects using clips that
must be scaled down to standard definition as this filter exhibits fewer sharp edges at
SD resolutions.
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.
Uses bilinear filter: 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.
Input scaling preset: Checking this box lets you choose an Input Sizing preset to apply
to the project.
Output scaling preset: Checking this box lets you choose an Output Sizing preset to
apply to the project.
Clip-Specific Scaling Settings
There’s an additional set of Scaling and Resize Filter settings, available in the Edit page
Inspector for selected clips, that provide the same options as those found in the Project
Settings window, except that they let you choose settings that will be specific to a particular
clip. These are valuable for situations where the project wide scaling setting is working for most
clips, but you have a handful of specific clips that would benefit from individual settings.
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