lmac666 wrote:I shot some footage in 6K BRAW 5:1 and when I put it into a 2K Timeline on Premiere Pro, the quality of the footage seemed to have dropped off a little bit, even after it has been exported at a high bitrate.
When I throw the exact same footage into a 6K timeline the footage looks fantastic.
I thought that putting higher resolution footage into a 2K timeline would've meant that the image quality should be quite good, this has generally been the case previously when using other footage.
You get the result you're after by adding 6K footage to a 6K timeline and then export that to 2K.
By using a 2K timeline, you are basically saying "give me 2K worth of resolution out of whatever source files I just gave you".
High resolution source files and low resolution timelines often invoke quick and dirty on-the-fly scaling that can't be compared to using a full resolution timeline (relative to source material) and then exporting that to something of a lower resolution.
DaVinci Resolve overcomes this problem by being resolution independent. You can do your work in a 2K timeline (including power windows and tracking), and then change the resolution of the timeline just before export without breaking your previous work. You do have to change the timeline resolution manually though. It's been a long standing request that Resolve should to that "flipping of the switch" automatically, in the background, if it recognises higher resolution source material.
But I guess the safer route is to make the user responsible, to make sure that there are now unintended resolution mis-matches.