Saving The Day With Input Sizing in DaVinci Resolve

In 2021, this workflow appears to only work if the Resolve timeline is also 1920×1080. 99% of the shows we work on are cut at 1080, but we finish at 2160 UHD. The Center Crop with no re-sizing settings makes no difference in this situation. In fact, the XML passes along the edit sizing as 50% (.50) for all clips that have not been resized. This needs to be reset to 100% (1.00) for every clip in the film intended to play at it’s original size. Unfortunately, there is no quick “select all”way to do this, and preserve the sizing of the clips that are intended to be resized. So it must be done one clip at a time. For this reason, we recommend to our clients that they use Scale to Frame Size when the workflow involves an Online of higher res source destined for a UHD finish. We would much rather manually adjust the framing of a selected group of clips (which we make them document) than have to resize every single clip in the film. So, like most things in video editing, sometimes it works as expected, and sometimes it doesn’t.

Eric – Thanks for the update. This Insight was *definitely* done with 1080p workflows in mind. I’ll take another run at this to see if I can figure out any other alternatives. But your recommendation definitely makes sense.