Hi all,
I'm glad this is being recognized as a bug - it's surely not intended for timelines and comps to do this when clips do not. It makes the vertical video workflow very difficult, and this is a very common way to use modern editing programs.
Dragging a widescreen timeline into a vertical 1080 one results in that timeline being downscaled to 1080x607 before rotation or panning, which is a huge loss in quality.
Here are some workarounds for this behaviour that I've started using:
Both of them assume that a majority of your editing work takes place on a widescreen UHD timeline, though this would work in HD too.
- Square Timeline Method:
1. Create a second timeline for your vertical/social version.
2. On the Format tab, use 1920 x 1920 (yes, this is a square canvas) with 'Scale Entire Image to Fit'.
3. On the Output tab, use 1080 x 1920 (vertical) with 'Center Crop No Resize'.
4. Drag the UHD widescreen timeline onto this one. It will be rescaled to 1920x1080.
5. Rotate or pan the UHD timeline within the vertical one as you need.
6. Export and you'll get a 1080 x 1920 vertical video.
- Single Timeline Method
1. On your original widescreen timeline, go to Timeline Settings and set the resolution in the Output tab of that timeline to 1080 x 1920.
2. Make a new track (perhaps color it something bright) and place an adjustment layer on it, the length of your content. Use this adjustment layer to modify your timeline non-destructively.
2a: If you're rotating your UHD widescreen edit, you'll want 0.5 Scale and -90 on Rotation, probably.
2b: If you're panning it, you can just key that, or have multiple adjustment layers on your new track.
3. You can now switch back and forth between your vertical and horizontal modes by toggling the new track you made on/off and changing the Output between UHD and 1080x1920.
4. You can now render a widescreen UHD version, and a vertical 1080x1920 version with just a few clicks between them. 7 clicks, to be exact.
I personally prefer the second workflow, but the end result is the same.
I hope that helps some people. I'd really like Resolve to have better workflows for multi aspect-ratio content though - it's all the rage these days.
- Single timeline method - switching modes
- 2022-10-05 20_11_43-Greenshot image editor.jpg (646.06 KiB) Viewed 3481 times