Editing 4K as 1080 and then rendering to 4K (Using Vegas 16)

paul-holmes5959 wrote on 8/22/2019, 11:15 PM

Is this a goofy question? I've been doing a project with 4K source files as a 1080p project then rendering to 4K? Is it actually producing a 4K version from the 4K source files or do the project settings (1080p) limit the actual dimensions to 1080? In other words am I just upsizing 1080 to 4K when I should have been editing it as a 4K project?

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fr0sty wrote on 8/22/2019, 11:31 PM

Always make sure your project and render settings match (not just resolution, but also frame rate, interlacing method (or none at all), and full resolution rendering quality. Don't use resampling unless you have mixed framerates or plan to do slomo, and if you need lower resolutions to edit videos smoothly, right click on your clips in the project media pool and select "create video proxy", then after that process finishes (a one time operation, but it'll take some time), keep your preview quality to either draft or preview. That will make 720p proxies to edit with, you can preview the original files by setting the preview quality to good or best, and then when you render, it uses the original resolution and files of your source media.

Also, when possible, you want the media's properties to be the same as the project settings and render settings. The fewest number of conversions possible is the goal.

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paul-holmes5959 wrote on 8/23/2019, 12:09 AM

Thanks Fr0sty. I pretty much follow what you just said but I was rendering intermediate edits into 4K without thinking that I had set the project at 1080p. I'll do the proxy thing in the future.

Wolfgang S. wrote on 8/23/2019, 3:50 AM

Well, off course you can set the project settings to HD instead UHD for a part of your editing since that may improve the playback performane. But take care, if you render your footage do not forget to change the resolution in the project settings back to UHD. Also, if you generate some medias like titels, that should not be done with HD project settings since the generated medias will have HD resolution only.

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Musicvid wrote on 8/23/2019, 3:58 AM

 

Project Settings above the horizontal rule do not affect the render (assuming same aspect).

Marco. wrote on 8/23/2019, 4:03 AM

The red marked part of the project properties seen in the screenshot below will not affect your rendered output because this part of the project settings will automatically adopt to your render settings.
For example, in the project properties you could select a frame size of 8 x 8 pixel and a frame rate of 1 fps and still render to 4k 60 p without any loss.

This part of the project properties is meant to pre-define your preview and it's the base for internal generating media.

Edit:
Musicvid was faster. ;)