Use 4K footage in an HD Timeline in Davinci Resolve 16 - 1080p and UHD Tutorial for Beginners

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Ever wonder what the best practice is for Using 4k footage in an HD timeline is? Well look no further! In this tutorial we take you through all the ways you can import and conform your footage, no matter the size, to an HD timeline and 4k timeline.
Hopefully these tips will get you through any issues you have with using 4k footage in any of your projects. And using HD footage for those bigger 4k timelines!
Take this knowledge and go make something beautiful!

[@haukegruen3398]

Man I just wanted to say, you are a fountain of wisdom! I am slowly (after 16+ years of editing in Premiere Pro) weaning myself off the Adobe ecosystem and transitioning into the Resolve world. Your videos are super helpful. Thank you!

[@PoorRoleModel]

Man, your channel has all of the random "how do I.." scenarios covered, and it's always direct to the point. I'm glad you didn't waste our time with the whole "10 minutes minimum for algo!" format that yt was pushing at the time this video was released. Sometimes these short direct videos are all we need.

[@jonnyclooney]

Thank you for this. I switched to Resolve recently and have been trying to get an answer about scaling 4/6K footage in 1080p timelines. Have looked at so many forums which descend into arguments immediately with no clear answer and here it is, straightforward and succinct! I'm going to point all of those forums posts to your channel now!

[@Loyalrex]

That center crop with no resizing is the exact setting I’ve been struggling to find for so long! Thank you so much!

[@TheThaiLife]

When your videos start, your chair makes you look like a starship captain about to go warp speed into resolve :)

[@frankinblackpool]

Over the years its been fun watching your studio and style change and develop. And after watching your episodes, many, many times, as my own experience and knowledge caught up I learned new snippets of information. With each project I created, for my own amusement and channel, which rocks literally ten's of Subs, I always learn and take away something new. If it wasn't for you sir, and Mr Alex Tech, I'd have gone crazy years ago failing at every corner trying to tame the beast that is DaVinci resolve.

[@DustinSThompson]

DUDE!!! You're wearing a classic Razors shirt? Holy shit you're officially the most bad ass instructor on Resolve!!! You go to Blading Cup ever man?

[@frankjoubert]

Love the Razors shirt bro, thanks video is just what I was looking for!

[@KZ-yu4jz]

Awesome video. The tip about getting he most out of your 4K or 2.7K footage for a 1080P timeline was great. Thanks!

[@gmtt25]

GREAT Video. Thanks Casey. I love your "dramatised" intros

[@HikingWithCooper]

Thank you for doing this video!! I have been dying to figure out how to use 4k (4.6k) on a 1080 timeline without having to figure out how much to scale. This will work so much better.

[@LuckyLifeTV]

A great one to return to ! Thanks for the reminder

[@HolzHammerSagas]

Really needed to know about this and very glad to discover that you’d done a video on it when I put it in the search!

[@WANGZOOMZIP]

Casey thanks very much for all the great information about DR! your teaching style is the best out there, bar none!

[@GlassonDesignStudio]

Thanks for sharing these tips. I’m just starting to step up from 1080p to 2k and was wondering how to deal with mixed resolution footage. These tips have given me a starting point to work from.

[@chrisgreyphotos]

Great info, was wondering if footage would just scale to fit or if there was a setting :)

[@BrandonFoltz]

I wish there was a way (and maybe there is) to know what percentage zoom in/out the clip is at when I bring it in and it is resized to fit automatically. That way I know when I zoom in, I am not going beyond 100% of the original footage. Anyone know if that information is somewhere numerically?

[@CaseyFaris]

Man I wish that too...it’s super confusing

[@vk4244]

That would be SUPER helpful! Also, is there a way of showing the center of the frame (or additional "rule of third -rulers" as an overlay? When zooming in or moving the image around, the center of the image is visible, but not the center of the frame :-(

[@DesertCookie]

@@vk4244 When it comes to the thirds, I have just created some image files I drop in over my media while I need a ROT-overlay.

[@mluckphoto]

Yes! Thank you! I'm new to resolve,and I've been looking for this

[@knuttrondsen5993]

Tanks for all your effort, making tutorials for us. Could you do one similar to this one, but on framerates? What is the best time line settings if u have 100 frames/sek footage and want good slow motion? Thanks 🤝👍

[@TrevorHughes]

Just what I was looking for perfect video.

[@joshguacamolean6959]

I could not figure out why my 4k footage was scaling down i when I made a 1080 timeline. Thanks for the video it was a big help.

[@toofy7253]

Amazing! Took just 3 minutes. Waay better than premiere pro

[@undefwun2135]

Old video still helpful. Been using DR for a little while, but my camera did terrible 4k. So fast forward to today, editing my first job with my own 4k footage. So this video was helpful in the way that I get how it handles it, BUT boy is it annoying to me that 'zoom' numbers in the inspector panels stay at 1. If I plop in the 4k footage and it scales it to fit the HD timeline why not adjust it to say 0.5. Really seems logical to me and silly that it doesn't. To be honest I wouldn't have had to look up videos like this, if the number had adjusted to the scale it set. I would have looked at it, ok cool it scaled and kept cutting.. not "omg did it just scale or auto reduce the resolution? Can I zoom or crop without losing quality?" Any particular reason that I am overlooking that in 18.6.5 Studio this is still the same? Some sort industry standard or something?

[@adeepoberoi1130]

Great tut. So 4K footage in a 1080 timeline, DR will still pull the adjustments from the original 4K right? If I make a compound clip of the 1080 timeline and color correct or stabilize this compound clip, would DR still use the original 4K footage? Or has everything just become 1080?

[@LorenzoYearby]

That's the only other thing I am wondering as well

[@FenzirL]

Great Video! However I have a question! Suppose I have a 1080p timeline but mixed footages (4K and 1080) , and can i Render it in 4k? And will the footages become wierd?

[@danwilliams4820]

Hi Casey, Undoubtedly the best explanation around for this. One question I have is whether I can mix the option to "Center crop with no resizing" for some clips and "Scale entire image to fit" with others? It seems to change all clips to one or the other even after added to the time line. This way I could mix 4K video I want to zoom or pan on with footage that I want to keep completely in frame on the HD timeline. Thanks!

[@caionascimento8]

Awesome tutorial, thanks again!

[@Intotheoutdoors69]

Congratulations on 200k subs well deserved I've learnt so much from you😁👍

[@Mr_Kenneth]

Fantastic. Just what I needed

[@TheSlipperySlope]

Do I lose any resolution if I put UHD footage in a HD timeline (downscaling) and then zooming in again by a maximum of 2?

[@CaseyFaris]

I don't think so... I don't think it resamples it.

[@RaiderKnight13]

What would be the best timeline settings for 6k footage being exported at 4k or 2k?

[@eddiemac114]

Thank you so much for making this video!! This is so informative and to the freaking point!!

[@PREEZYDAKID]

Question, what did you put in the video monitoring section of the settings when you changed the timeline to UltraHD (4K)?

[@TheKyokus1997]

which is better ....quality? or its a way when you dont know what "mm" to use ?

[@SuperJBXx]

Inwas waiting for a video like this for so long !

[@aymantravels]

Extremely helpful video!

[@KingMA1]

Which option would be the best for gaming video?

[@Vissenbijdewaterkant]

Thanks you for making this video!!!

[@p3bibyam]

Hi Casey, I exported a 4k video to the 1080HD timeline and the video played at very slow speed. How do I do to get the video play at standard speed then? Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[@SnehithPamarathi]

Hi Casey! What is that big control panel behind you infront of the speaker?

[@joeybailey9628]

I’m editing a project atm half the timeline is 1080 timeline and other half is 4k what’s the best way to scale each time I try the options it only scales one half or the other what would would be best option to have it all scaled

[@Kragnar99]

Hey man! You forgot to mention that if you've made your timeline already, you will have to right click your timeline and hit timeline settings and find these settings from there.

[@RobytheFlorentine]

thanks, you have helped many times :-) My videos become better and better

[@jbach]

Thanks for sharing. But what if you have 4K footage in a UltraHD timeline and you simply want to render in HD? If you just choose HD as your render resolution you crop the video.

[@NinjaTrackProductions]

Excellent video. Thank you very much!

[@bothead2263]

Great!! Can you teach how to overlap two videos and also how to use the green screen videos...

[@ecobasetech4558]

If you are talking about how to take video footage from different angles on the same subject and how to input that into the software and sync them, I want to know this too!!!!

[@bothead2263]

@@ecobasetech4558 I'm asking for the overlapping of two different videos one maybe a meme video on our original video, like many youtubers do in their videos to make them a tiny bit funny...

[@pilotonadventure]

Hi Casey, Thank you for those great tutorials. However, you do things too fast since you know them already. You need to keep your viewers up to speed. The question: when I upload a 2k video in the timeline (changing its settings to 2k as well) and render it and then play the original with the rendered one side-to-side, the render isn't as sharp as the original 2k unedited video. What am I doing wrong and how to fix that? Thanks.

[@electronicfellows2113]

do we leave out output scaling to ‘scale entire image to fit’?

[@thatsamshow]

How to do this on a clip-by-clip basis and not global project settings?

[@moreceluce7812]

This was super helpful, thank you!

[@davidpringuer3553]

Great. Tight. Neat. Thanks!

[@nursultanstanaliev3385]

Very helpful dude

[@FeedTheUrgeFood]

For center crop and no resizing setting, how to you automate all the clips to be Zoom 0.5 when dragged onto timeline?

[@Bou89]

How about a studio and equipment tour.

[@Ghost-uz3qg]

pc specs? plz reply

[@ArcanePath360]

When I create a new timeline in my 1080p project and make everything in the settings 4k, if I then use that timeline in my 1080p project it crops it to 1080p! I need it to be 4k footage still. Doesn't matter what setting I change, it insists on clipping it down.

[@prodbyjely]

I would like to use a 4K timeline in multiple different resolution timelines so I can replace the footage in the 4K Timeline and have it populate multiple time lines say an instagram timeline and a Tik Tok Timeline and then go into those multiple timelines and manipulate the 4K timeline like it was 4K footage. I cannot get this to work!

[@skykingimagery899]

What is the best timeline for 5K footage? Does setting to 1080 make editing faster? 5K is technically higher than UHD.

[@mrkumaran]

hi, unrelated question, why does clean plate not work with blue screen ?

[@dan_aviacio]

Yeah nice Razors Tee. So where do i find your 4k Blading Footage ;)

[@CaseyFaris]

Haha I wish. Haven't rolled in a LONG time. Still love it tho

[@spikedart9323]

Thank you that is what I was looking for. As I progress with DaVinci I find more and more advanced tuts from you. :) Unfortunately these options doesn't work for me. I have a footage 1920x1080 (screen recording) + around 400 px of a margin on the right with additional recorded stuff, exactly a little box with recording of shortcuts I use. So if I could use 'center crop no resizing' and just snap the clip to left and have my recording in 1920x1080. Above I wanted to add the same clip with cropped shortcuts box. I can't record it on my main screengrab because I do a lot of zooms in my videos (tutorials). Is this option restricted only to Davinci Pro?

[@airucknumna6835]

do need the paid version for this?

[@life107familyfitnessboxing8]

When I import a 4K UHD 10-bit 150mbps video file in Davinci resolve 17 free version, I only get sound and can't drag it to the timeline. There is no image just sound. I am trying to shrink a 4K file to 1080p

[@leegamer918]

does this work with 4k recording with 1080x1920 for tik tok?

[@remmierodrigues1531]

Pretty smooth playback configuration pls

[@ste7285]

Hi Casey. In Premiere I can set up the same way so that 4K Footage in a FullHD Timeline shows up in full resolution. Than I can set up a keyboard shortcut to fit the Footage to the Timeline and the Zoom is than 50%. Is a shortcut like that possible in Davinci so that I don't have to go with the zoom function?

[@alieazzy1631]

I don’t see any option for DCI 4K, neither can I setup custom DCI 4K Project. Any ideas how to set DCI 4K?

[@sabaw3]

Hi I was wondering if you could help me out. I shoot in 4k and put it in a 1080 timeline. In most cases I get all the crispness of 4k in a 1080 video and it's all good. My problem starts when I do a multicam. I usually do a mixed 4k and 1080 for my 2 camera setup. I notice that the 4k footage becomes quite muddy when I put it in a multicam setup with the 1080 footage. If I put it in a 4k timeline, it works great. But when I put it in a 1080 timeline, it becomes muddy, this is regardless if my project settings are at 4k or 1080 (which I guess affects the "container resolution" of the multicam clip, since it changes depending on the project setting resolution) Am I missing something? Why does it become super muddy when I put it in a 1080 timeline? It doesn't happen if it isn't multiclip. If I render the 4k timeline in 1080 it comes out crisp too (but waaay to long). Is there a setting or feature I'm not using? Thank you in advance!

[@germancreatives88]

will it affect the if you render the original resolution?

[@de9758]

Ive noticed that when shooting in 6k, I drag into my 1080HD timeline, planning on zooming in 3x it looses a lot of quality and becomes pixelated. Any reason or solution for this?

[@PurpleSpiritFoxFire]

Ok, Is it okay if i don't zoom in on my 4k footage in a 1080 timeline? Like I just want my 1080 export to be more crispy and better? so like when i get exports the 1080 pixles are all averages of 4 pixles of the 4k footage...something like that!

[@000hugohew]

Hi may I know which graphic card you use for 4k timeline, thank you. When I use 2080TI 4K timeline very lagging.

[@saabastiana4111]

I can't edit 4k in my timeline, the playback is too choppy, any solutions?? :(

[@TheBinkyBlue]

Ohhh, thanks exactly I want to know that.

[@mrfroopy]

Here's a weird one, I. have a 1920x1080 timeline with 4 k and reg HD footage. When I play it down in Resolve 17, with Timeline proxy mode off the UHD footage plays blurry but the hd doesn't. When I stop the UHD pops to full resolution.The footage is playing with no lag at proper frame rate.. This was not happening on the same timeline back in Resolve 16. An ideas?

[@Sir-IKON]

is this how we would add a 4k KZbin onto a 1080p 24fps video?

[@chriswakeford387]

Nice Tee Casey

[@EdsEverydayAdventures]

Does anyone else have the same issue as me? Mine works nothing like his. I put the same option as Casey in the image scaling. Bring 4k into 1080 timeline. But it still crops it as if the other setting is used. But when I render it, it shows it zoomed in. In the edit, its been resized down. I have no way or previewing what it will look like except in deliver section. I can't use my 4k where I can make the zooms or the panning or anything.

[@CaseyFaris]

You have to set your image scaling for rendering to match timeline settings. It’s in you project settings under image scaling.

[@EdsEverydayAdventures]

@@CaseyFaris Thanks. But it turned out to be a setting in preferences area that fixed my issue. I had tried your answer and it didn’t change it. Found a forum where others had same issue. Preferences - playback settings - has to select manual and optimized image processing is what finally fixed it.

[@JBuckenmeyer]

If I shoot in 4096 x 1712 but I want to export in full hd I just set full hd as project settings correct? It will have black bars for the wide image which is the intention, I just want to make sure I'm not losing any resolution for a correct full HD output.

[@video2000_TV]

I'd leave project settings at 4k in the editing process and deliver as full HD. that way you still have a future opportunity to export the full potential

[@SmaugMedia]

oml i reinstalled davanci and thought i was going insane saying my 4K footage was 1080p would i like to upscale

[@KZ-yu4jz]

Shouldnt someone SuperScale (Studio version) 4X with a UHD timeline on all their videos to get the best quality? You could use 1080P, 2.7K, and 4K video and get the best out of all of them. Besides taking up more harddrive space is there any downside to that workflow?

[@video2000_TV]

the downside would be the quality loss, which might not be significant if you have good quality 1080 footage

[@Maremare680]

Great, 👍

[@TonyBabarino]

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[@edonave]

I love you so much.

[@JCFrost]

You're the beeeest

[@grantbruce4137]

I cant even put my 4k 60fps video in the media pool, when I do it just says media offline. If anyone knows how to fix this please let me know.

[@joshualeonard1900]

It might depend on the kind of footage (file type) you are using. For example .MXF files have, more recently because of licencing issues, not been usable unless you are using the studio version. I had that issue and so am having to downgrade to version 16 to use them. then once project is done i can go back to the latest fere version cause im cheap ;) haha

[@MariaWade]

Thank you so MUCH for being American and teaching this!

[@Ok-dj6ut]

hey

[@omeeonly7097]

NICE BT THE FOOTAGE U USED(GIRL) WAS LITTLE MORE CONFUSING NOT ABLE TO UNDERSTAND ITS ZOOMED OR YOU FORWARDED THE SHOT

[@MAlyTech]

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[@patanjali307]

You talk and move too fast for people trying to learn. Not good!