HD Monitoring for UHD timelines

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lukashd

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HD Monitoring for UHD timelines

PostWed Nov 22, 2023 12:09 pm

Please make it possible to monitor UHD/4K timelines on HD monitors. :geek:
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Re: HD Monitoring for UHD timelines

PostWed Nov 22, 2023 9:32 pm

UHD timeline plays quite happily on my HD monitors. If the timeline resolution and/or Video Monitoring is set to UHD or FHD the UHD timeline plays fine here.
Here is a UHD timeline playing on my HD monitor. This is Video Clean Feed, but it's just as happy using the Cinema Viewer.
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Re: HD Monitoring for UHD timelines

PostWed Nov 22, 2023 10:39 pm

Works fine for me. The key is to have the exact same aspect ratio in HD that you do in 4K. So (for example), don't expect to monitor 4096x2160 on a 1920x1080 frame, because the aspect ratios are not identical. You can monitor 3840x2160 on a 1920x1080 set and still see the entire image area.
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Re: HD Monitoring for UHD timelines

PostFri Nov 24, 2023 9:30 am

Thank for your responses. I don't get it to work!
- I have a 16:9 - UHD timeline
- BM Ultrastudio monitor is set to FHD and selected as Video IO device

The monitor will only show a center cropped image. Of course the viewer is showing the UHD image.
What I want is for the viewer to show the UHD image and the monitor receiving an FHD stream.
Which magic settings do I have to tweak to make this work?
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Re: HD Monitoring for UHD timelines

PostFri Nov 24, 2023 12:47 pm

Charles Bennett wrote:UHD timeline plays quite happily on my HD monitors. If the timeline resolution and/or Video Monitoring is set to UHD or FHD the UHD timeline plays fine here.
Here is a UHD timeline playing on my HD monitor. This is Video Clean Feed, but it's just as happy using the Cinema Viewer.


Hi Charles,
Thank you for your tip. I am not using video clean feed, but an external video IO device (blackmagic monitor 3g). Clean feed will always work, that is no problem.
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