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Use the Format Settings options to set:

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Debayer Select the level of quality required from the debayering algorithm. Higher resolutions take more time to process.

CropEnter the desired Crop settings. Setting crop values displays a matching crop box on the clip displayed in the Preview panel.

Size W | H (Resize) Enter the desired resize settings. A resize setting that is not directly proportional to the size of the original media takes longer to process. Resize settings are automatically applied when Debayer is set to something else than Full.

Bit Depth RED media is 16 bits, but must be converted down to 12, 10 or 8 bits.

Fit/Stretch To use a different aspect ratio during resize, select a fit method option to be applied to the exported clip.

Select: To:
Centre/Crop Fit the source image, centred, over the destination 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 Fit one edge of the source into the destination 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 Fit the source, width, and height, into the destination frame. If the source and destination frames do not have the same aspect ratio, the image can become distorted.
Letterbox Fit the source to the destination 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 contained within the destination frame.

Filter Select the filter option to determine the quality of the interpolated resize result.

Select: To get:
Impulse Quick, low-quality results.
Triangle Moderate results with little processing overhead.
Mitchell Best results when resizing a clip to a higher resolution.
Bicubic Very good results for resizing soft-looking images. Use to sharpen the image.
Quadratic Good results for resizing simple images with straight edges. Similar to Gaussian but with more blurring. Use to soften the image.
Gaussian Excellent results when resizing a clip with no patterns and a lot of straight edges to a lower resolution. Useful for softening some detail.
Shannon Excellent results when resizing a clip to a lower resolution. Very similar to Lanczos, but results are a little softer.
Lanczos Best results when resizing a clip containing a variety of patterns and elements to a lower resolution. It is the most complex with the longest processing time.

Detail Select the level of detail extraction required.

OLPF Select the level of Optical Low Pass Filter compensation to use. OLPF is a type of sharpening used to compensate for the optical anti-aliasing filter, which can induce softening of the image during recording.

Denoise Select the level of noise reduction applied to the debayered clip.