Compound Clips and Rendering at Source Resolution

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jaredneher

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Compound Clips and Rendering at Source Resolution

PostThu Jul 26, 2018 11:08 pm

I'm working with the free version of Resolve (in case that has something to do with the troubles I'm having).

I’m experiencing a hangup where I’m bringing in footage from FCPX that is retimed, and it is automatically creating a compound clip in Resolve. this doesn’t necessarily bother me, but the problem lies in the exporting of that compound clip. ultimately, I need to export my shots at their native resolution (so things conform correctly back in FCPX). however, when I export (and I select “Render At Source Resolution”), it sizes everything down to my timeline’s resolution of 1920x1080. rendering at source resolution DOES work on footage that isn’t a compound clip. but not when they're compounded. can anyone explain this or give me a workaround? my timeline is full of mixed resolutions and frame rates. I hope I don't have to change my master settings for each of these different formats to export them in their native resolutions.
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Hector Berrebi

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Re: Compound Clips and Rendering at Source Resolution

PostSat Jul 28, 2018 6:02 am

jaredneher wrote: can anyone explain this or give me a workaround? my timeline is full of mixed resolutions and frame rates. I hope I don't have to change my master settings for each of these different formats to export them in their native resolutions.



Hey Jared

The way Resolve works with sizing & mixed resolutions isn't always intuitive.
Any source put into an HD project "becomes" HD (so if you try to scale, you aren't using original resolution)
Unless you change the Image Scaling - Input Scaling setting to - center crop with no resizing

This will read original resolution from clips (and use sizing info that came in with XML/AAF)

You can set this to individual clips on a timeline (in the Inspector), to multiple clips selected (Inspector) or to the entire project (Settings)
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Re: Compound Clips and Rendering at Source Resolution

PostSun Jul 29, 2018 3:10 am

I had the same issue. It turned out to be the compound clip was at Resolve timeline resolution (1920x1080) which meant the compound clip resolution was used for "Individual Clips" export. I used the "decompose in place" feature to solve this issue. BTW it only happened when I had a mix of 4k DCI, UHD & HD materials in the edit.
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