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Resizing Settings

The following Resizing settings appear in Batch and the Resize module.

NoteDepending on the resolution of the images you are resizing and the model of your graphics card, the GPU may not be able to resize the clip. If the GPU cannot resize the clip, your application resizes the clip and adaptive de-interlacing is not available.

(a) Fit Method box(b) Resize Field Format box(c) Filter box(d) Precision field(e) Crisp/Soft field (f) Padding colour pot (g) Adaptive field

The following Resizing settings appear in the Deliverables tab of the Player.

(a) Filter box(b) Resize Field Format box(c) Fit Method box(d) Precision field(e) Crisp/Soft field (f) Adaptive field

Resize Field Format box
  Select an option to determine whether the resize is performed on progressive or interlaced frames, if both source and destination clips are interlaced. If either clip is progressive, the resize operation is always progressive.
Fit Method box
  Select a fit method to be applied to the selected clip.

Select: | To fit:
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Centre/Crop | The source image, centred, over the destination resolution frame. If the source is larger than the destination, it is cropped. If the source is smaller than the destination, it is surrounded by a black border.
Crop Edges | One edge of the source into the destination resolution frame without stretching or squashing the frame. Excess parts of the source frame after resizing are cropped. If the source—after the one edge is resized—is wider than the destination, its overhanging left and right edges are cropped. If the source is taller than the destination, the upper and lower edges are cropped.
Fill | The source, width, and height, into the destination resolution frame. This process, if the source and destination resolutions do not have the same aspect ratio, can distort the image.
Letterbox | The source to the destination resolution frame without squashing or stretching it, and without cropping the source. If the source is wider than the destination, black bars fill the top and bottom of the destination frame. If the source is narrower than the destination, black bars fill the right and left sides of the frame. In all cases, the entire source frame is fit into the destination frame.

Filter box
  Displays available resizing filters. All but the Impulse filter are rendered using the GPU. This box does not appear if you selected the Centre/Crop Fit method.

Select: | For:
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Lanczos | Excellent and sharp results. Recommended for upscale and downscale. Expensive to compute.
Shannon | Excellent and sharp results. Results are sharper than Lanczos in small details. Recommended for upscale and downscale. Expensive to compute.
Gaussian | Medium quality and softer results.
Quadratic | Medium quality and softer results.
Bicubic | High-quality results, but not as sharp as Shannon. Use for both upscale and downscale.
Mitchell | High-quality results, but not as sharp as Shannon. Use for both upscale and downscale.
Triangle | Low quality results that are fast to compute. Use for downscale.
Impulse | Very low quality results that are fast to compute. Use for downscale.

NoteDefining a filter method in a Resize menu will override the default setting specified in the Preferences menu.

Keep Aspect button
  Enable to maintain non-square pixel formats. This button only appears if you selected the Crop Edges or Letterbox methods.
Padding colour pot
  Select a colour to use for padding out the frame when centre-cropping, cropping edges, or letterboxing. The default padding colour is black.
Adaptive button
  Enable to use adaptive de-interlacing to minimize the creation of artifacts associated with resizing interlaced material. Active only when you select Interlaced Resizing from the Resize Field Format box.
Adaptive field
  Displays the Adaptive de-interlacing setting.