Video in 4k, Project in Full HD. How to work with them?

Help/How To
1

Hey guys!

I have some videos in 4k and some in Full HD.
I am creating my project in Full HD. I would like to use my 4k files as well. With my 4k files, I would like to move my video in the scene, I mean, make different compositions, just moving and zooming in or our my 4K file.

I do this in different editing programs, but I can’t do it here in ShotCut.
When I add a 4k video into my timeline, it should appear cropped in the project, because the image is bigger than the full hd format. Do you know what I mean?

I cant deal with that. I need my 4k videos to appear cropped in the project, without losing quality. That’s why I recorded them in 4k.

I appreciate any help.
Thanks

2

Shotcut is going to default them to scaled down, but you can use the size/position filter to reset their size to 3840x2160 and then position what section you want. You could even add a second video track in the timeline and apply the filter to that if you want to crop all of your 4k videos exactly the same.

image
image397×516 11 KB

This is from a “news roundup” video I did with all the clips that weren’t me talking showing up in the upper left of the screen scaled to one size.

1 Like
4

Thank you for replying.

So, I should put manually there 3840, right? But it takes the zoom to 200%.

It’s not taking the quality down?

5

No it shouldn’t hurt the quality, and yes putting 3840 means the full size is shown but since your viewport is only 1920 you’d see just the center crop by default

1 Like
6

Perfect! Thank you very much.

You helped a lot!!!

7

This topic was automatically closed after 90 days. New replies are no longer allowed.