Image resizing bug?

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Florian Gintenreiter

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Image resizing bug?

PostMon Jun 04, 2018 8:10 am

Hi!

I was working with Resolve 15B4 and was noticing odd behaviour when trying to work with a .PSD file. I'm not sure wether it's a bug or just a wrong setting somewhere, because it's the first time I use images in an Resolve Project. The image is a logo with an alpha, that has to go at the end of a commercial. I have prepared the logo in UHD 3840x2160 pixels in Photoshop and used it in Resolve project. (I later tried the same image as a .PNG file with the same results. The project has a timeline resolution of just HD, but I want to future-proof the project, so I created all assets for 4K. When I scale the logo inside Resolve — using the "zoom" transform control in the inspector, I get very jagged edges in the image. It's as if the scaling algorithm ist in "draft" mode. I have tried switching the resize filter in the project settings to improve rendering quality between "sharper, smoother bicubic…" but I can see no change — this setting seems to be affecting video but not stills. Am I missing something to get clean image-scaling or is this a bug? I have a screenshot of what I see uploaded here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f3hyakbxbb56e ... 3.png?dl=0
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Re: Image resizing bug?

PostMon Jun 04, 2018 8:19 am

Florian Gintenreiter wrote:Hi!

I was working with Resolve 15B4 and was noticing odd behaviour when trying to work with a .PSD file. I'm not sure wether it's a bug or just a wrong setting somewhere, because it's the first time I use images in an Resolve Project. The image is a logo with an alpha, that has to go at the end of a commercial. I have prepared the logo in UHD 3840x2160 pixels in Photoshop and used it in Resolve project. (I later tried the same image as a .PNG file with the same results. The project has a timeline resolution of just HD, but I want to future-proof the project, so I created all assets for 4K. When I scale the logo inside Resolve — using the "zoom" transform control in the inspector, I get very jagged edges in the image. It's as if the scaling algorithm ist in "draft" mode. I have tried switching the resize filter in the project settings to improve rendering quality between "sharper, smoother bicubic…" but I can see no change — this setting seems to be affecting video but not stills. Am I missing something to get clean image-scaling or is this a bug? I have a screenshot of what I see uploaded here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f3hyakbxbb56e ... 3.png?dl=0
I noticed this behaviour too, but that was about files with Alpha in general. And I noticed this in v14.

My solution was to prepare the files just as I need them, yet I still had some issues with fuzzy edges; IIRC, that was because of the unpremultiplied/straight alpha I was using, even though I set it properly inside Resolve. Seems like it didn't change for v15 :(

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Re: Image resizing bug?

PostMon Jun 04, 2018 10:43 am

Come’on Black Magic programmers!
these are few lines of code...
Fingers crossed to see the fix on B5.
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Florian Gintenreiter

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Re: Image resizing bug?

PostSun Jul 01, 2018 2:59 pm

Seems to be fixes in B5. Great! Thanks!
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Re: Image resizing bug?

PostWed Aug 08, 2018 7:50 am

Hi. Just noticed in Beta8 the annoying image scaling bug is back. I have tried this logo (with alpha) as .psd, .png and .tiff file. It's got a slight sizing-animation on it and the edges are jaggy as hell.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1nzf36f07umt0 ... 1.jpg?dl=0

Please, please dear BM developers redo what you did between B3 and B4, because it worked up until B8
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Re: Image resizing bug?

PostWed Aug 08, 2018 9:41 am

Florian Gintenreiter wrote:Hi. Just noticed in Beta8 the annoying image scaling bug is back. I have tried this logo (with alpha) as .psd, .png and .tiff file. It's got a slight sizing-animation on it and the edges are jaggy as hell.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1nzf36f07umt0 ... 1.jpg?dl=0

Please, please dear BM developers redo what you did between B3 and B4, because it worked up until B8


Can you please post a PNG (or any other source), and a DRP (Resolve project export)?

I assume you have set the RGBA mode to pre-mult or straight correctly in the Media Pool.
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