Image Quality Issue

I was re editing some concert footage and noticed on the DCI 4K monitor that it looked soft and a bit like it was up-sampled from 720P.

Original footage is 1080P XDCam EX and was very sharp.

I went back and reviewed the footage in Adobe Premiere Pro and it looks sharp with no halos.

In Resolve, the same footage looks soft and has halos, like it's been up-sampled from 720P and sharpened.

I also compared footage rendered out of the Premiere project played back in VLC Media Player full screen on DCI 4K display. It looks sharp and well defined with no halos.

Then I played the footage rendered out of Resolve, and it has that up-sampled from 720P look with halos.

Here are the project settings. Is there something I set incorrectly, causing my project to display and render at a lower actual resolution than 1080P?

Project Settings

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I'm confused by your description. Could you upload some images of what you're seeing?

I've been experimenting a lot with this. Originally, I used a sharpen filter from the FX bin, but that was giving me halos around edges, making the footage look like it was upscaled from lower resolution.

I removed that filter and found the sharpening tool in the color page. I think part of the problem is this tool works very differently than unsharp mask in Premiere. I was accustomed to amount and radius controls. I was doing it backwards with this tool as well in the beginning. People in the shot were looking plastic-like with no core detail.

The following settings are looking better. I'm not sure if I've equaled the fine detail yet, but getting very close. I think I used a radius of 0.1 in Premiere, but I don't know the equivalent here in DR. This is what I've dialed in initially, then I went more extreme in the second version and fine details are looking better on the wide angle shots.

Sharpness Settings

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This looks even better with more fine detail

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