Quick video editing question

[Cs342]

Hello,

Just a quick question - if I open a 720p video file in Sony Vegas (or any other editing program) and edit it, will exporting the final product as a 1080p video increase quality? Also, will editing an already-edited video file and re-exporting it decrease quality in a noticeable way?

[EChondo]

1. It will NOT increase quality, it will actually DEGRADE the quality. You can NOT take video at 720p and just increase it to 1080p, well technically you can, but you are upscaling the video, thus making it a lower quality overall even though it is at a higher resolution.

2. I render already rendered files and it seems to stay the same quality as long as you use the same settings, but I wouldn't do it too much to one clip specifically as there could be degradation in video quality, but it might only be minimal. It probably won't be noticeable.

Just remember that you shouldn't upscale video, only downscale it. If you upscale it will look distorted in some way and will lose quality. You can make a 1080p recording into a 720p, but you shouldn't make a 720p recording and render it to 1080p.

[Cs342]

so rendering a 720p video as 720p is better than rendering it as 1080p? how much quality difference will it make?

[noname7931]

Cs342 if your content that you edit is in 720p the you should render it that definition you should NOT upscale the content or the render because it is like trying to make 3 pizza when you only make 1it is not true. Same goes for downscaling

[Cs342]

oh i see, thanks for the help :) could you please explain why this decreases quality though? because that would mean that buying a 2560x1600 monitor to watch BluRay movies on would actually be worse than just using a 1080p monitor

[Bill Cosby]

Thats not it, your monitors resolution is seperate from the video resolution. Your monitor resolution basically tells you UP TO what resolutions you can play nicely on that monitor at full screen. So on a 2560 X 1600 monitor, you can watch 720p, 1080p, 1280p, 1440p all the way up.

For the distortion of 720p to 1080p.

If you take a video and you increase its resolution, what you are doing is stretching each pixel. Think of it like you are stretching a piece of fabric. One you stretch it too far, you can see all the fibers and fabric start to pull apart, and you can eventually see gaps in the fabric. It kind of is the same thing for video. As you stretch the video, each pixel starts to lose data, and they no longer become as clear as before. So from going to 720p to 1080p the footage will seem, blurrier. It may not be by much, but if you have the editing eyes that i have, then you will be able to tell and it will piss you off.

So whatever resolution you film your footage in, is what you should upload it / render it in. 720p is more than enough noadays, especially if you are uploading to youtube. If you are looking to get better quality, play around with render settings, make sure you have appropriate frame rates, and know how to use good color correction and grading to make the video even better. Sometimes (especially in vegas) if you add a sharpness filter on the footage and ONLY PUT IT AT ONE! it will make a suttle difference that is applealing to the eye.

Hope this helped. Any more questions feel free to ask.

[Cs342]

Thats not it, your monitors resolution is seperate from the video resolution. Your monitor resolution basically tells you UP TO what resolutions you can play nicely on that monitor at full screen. So on a 2560 X 1600 monitor, you can watch 720p, 1080p, 1280p, 1440p all the way up.

For the distortion of 720p to 1080p.

If you take a video and you increase its resolution, what you are doing is stretching each pixel. Think of it like you are stretching a piece of fabric. One you stretch it too far, you can see all the fibers and fabric start to pull apart, and you can eventually see gaps in the fabric. It kind of is the same thing for video. As you stretch the video, each pixel starts to lose data, and they no longer become as clear as before. So from going to 720p to 1080p the footage will seem, blurrier. It may not be by much, but if you have the editing eyes that i have, then you will be able to tell and it will piss you off.

So whatever resolution you film your footage in, is what you should upload it / render it in. 720p is more than enough noadays, especially if you are uploading to youtube. If you are looking to get better quality, play around with render settings, make sure you have appropriate frame rates, and know how to use good color correction and grading to make the video even better. Sometimes (especially in vegas) if you add a sharpness filter on the footage and ONLY PUT IT AT ONE! it will make a suttle difference that is applealing to the eye.

Hope this helped. Any more questions feel free to ask.

Thank you so much! But what if I am rendering a 720p video to watch on a 1080p display? Do I still render it at 720p or do I make it 1080p? Also, you said "So on a 2560 X 1600 monitor, you can watch 720p, 1080p, 1280p, 1440p all the way up. " Does this mean that there will be no loss in quality when watching a 1080p movie on a 1440p monitor?

[Bill Cosby]

Thats not it, your monitors resolution is seperate from the video resolution. Your monitor resolution basically tells you UP TO what resolutions you can play nicely on that monitor at full screen. So on a 2560 X 1600 monitor, you can watch 720p, 1080p, 1280p, 1440p all the way up.

For the distortion of 720p to 1080p.

If you take a video and you increase its resolution, what you are doing is stretching each pixel. Think of it like you are stretching a piece of fabric. One you stretch it too far, you can see all the fibers and fabric start to pull apart, and you can eventually see gaps in the fabric. It kind of is the same thing for video. As you stretch the video, each pixel starts to lose data, and they no longer become as clear as before. So from going to 720p to 1080p the footage will seem, blurrier. It may not be by much, but if you have the editing eyes that i have, then you will be able to tell and it will piss you off.

So whatever resolution you film your footage in, is what you should upload it / render it in. 720p is more than enough noadays, especially if you are uploading to youtube. If you are looking to get better quality, play around with render settings, make sure you have appropriate frame rates, and know how to use good color correction and grading to make the video even better. Sometimes (especially in vegas) if you add a sharpness filter on the footage and ONLY PUT IT AT ONE! it will make a suttle difference that is applealing to the eye.

Hope this helped. Any more questions feel free to ask.

Exactly! Yes, it does not matter what screen you are going to be viewing your video on. Always render it at the same quality that you captured it.

[Cs342]

Thats not it, your monitors resolution is seperate from the video resolution. Your monitor resolution basically tells you UP TO what resolutions you can play nicely on that monitor at full screen. So on a 2560 X 1600 monitor, you can watch 720p, 1080p, 1280p, 1440p all the way up.

For the distortion of 720p to 1080p.

If you take a video and you increase its resolution, what you are doing is stretching each pixel. Think of it like you are stretching a piece of fabric. One you stretch it too far, you can see all the fibers and fabric start to pull apart, and you can eventually see gaps in the fabric. It kind of is the same thing for video. As you stretch the video, each pixel starts to lose data, and they no longer become as clear as before. So from going to 720p to 1080p the footage will seem, blurrier. It may not be by much, but if you have the editing eyes that i have, then you will be able to tell and it will piss you off.

So whatever resolution you film your footage in, is what you should upload it / render it in. 720p is more than enough noadays, especially if you are uploading to youtube. If you are looking to get better quality, play around with render settings, make sure you have appropriate frame rates, and know how to use good color correction and grading to make the video even better. Sometimes (especially in vegas) if you add a sharpness filter on the footage and ONLY PUT IT AT ONE! it will make a suttle difference that is applealing to the eye.

Hope this helped. Any more questions feel free to ask.

But how would displaying 1080p files on a 1440p screen not cause the image to blur?

[Bill Cosby]

Thats not it, your monitors resolution is seperate from the video resolution. Your monitor resolution basically tells you UP TO what resolutions you can play nicely on that monitor at full screen. So on a 2560 X 1600 monitor, you can watch 720p, 1080p, 1280p, 1440p all the way up.

For the distortion of 720p to 1080p.

If you take a video and you increase its resolution, what you are doing is stretching each pixel. Think of it like you are stretching a piece of fabric. One you stretch it too far, you can see all the fibers and fabric start to pull apart, and you can eventually see gaps in the fabric. It kind of is the same thing for video. As you stretch the video, each pixel starts to lose data, and they no longer become as clear as before. So from going to 720p to 1080p the footage will seem, blurrier. It may not be by much, but if you have the editing eyes that i have, then you will be able to tell and it will piss you off.

So whatever resolution you film your footage in, is what you should upload it / render it in. 720p is more than enough noadays, especially if you are uploading to youtube. If you are looking to get better quality, play around with render settings, make sure you have appropriate frame rates, and know how to use good color correction and grading to make the video even better. Sometimes (especially in vegas) if you add a sharpness filter on the footage and ONLY PUT IT AT ONE! it will make a suttle difference that is applealing to the eye.

Hope this helped. Any more questions feel free to ask.

because the monitor still plays them at 1080p, a monitor just plays the resolution that the video is at. It doesnt scale everything to the highest resolution it has.

[Cs342]

Thats not it, your monitors resolution is seperate from the video resolution. Your monitor resolution basically tells you UP TO what resolutions you can play nicely on that monitor at full screen. So on a 2560 X 1600 monitor, you can watch 720p, 1080p, 1280p, 1440p all the way up.

For the distortion of 720p to 1080p.

If you take a video and you increase its resolution, what you are doing is stretching each pixel. Think of it like you are stretching a piece of fabric. One you stretch it too far, you can see all the fibers and fabric start to pull apart, and you can eventually see gaps in the fabric. It kind of is the same thing for video. As you stretch the video, each pixel starts to lose data, and they no longer become as clear as before. So from going to 720p to 1080p the footage will seem, blurrier. It may not be by much, but if you have the editing eyes that i have, then you will be able to tell and it will piss you off.

So whatever resolution you film your footage in, is what you should upload it / render it in. 720p is more than enough noadays, especially if you are uploading to youtube. If you are looking to get better quality, play around with render settings, make sure you have appropriate frame rates, and know how to use good color correction and grading to make the video even better. Sometimes (especially in vegas) if you add a sharpness filter on the footage and ONLY PUT IT AT ONE! it will make a suttle difference that is applealing to the eye.

Hope this helped. Any more questions feel free to ask.

so technically it would look blurrier because it was being stretched out on a bigger screen

[Bill Cosby]

Thats not it, your monitors resolution is seperate from the video resolution. Your monitor resolution basically tells you UP TO what resolutions you can play nicely on that monitor at full screen. So on a 2560 X 1600 monitor, you can watch 720p, 1080p, 1280p, 1440p all the way up.

For the distortion of 720p to 1080p.

If you take a video and you increase its resolution, what you are doing is stretching each pixel. Think of it like you are stretching a piece of fabric. One you stretch it too far, you can see all the fibers and fabric start to pull apart, and you can eventually see gaps in the fabric. It kind of is the same thing for video. As you stretch the video, each pixel starts to lose data, and they no longer become as clear as before. So from going to 720p to 1080p the footage will seem, blurrier. It may not be by much, but if you have the editing eyes that i have, then you will be able to tell and it will piss you off.

So whatever resolution you film your footage in, is what you should upload it / render it in. 720p is more than enough noadays, especially if you are uploading to youtube. If you are looking to get better quality, play around with render settings, make sure you have appropriate frame rates, and know how to use good color correction and grading to make the video even better. Sometimes (especially in vegas) if you add a sharpness filter on the footage and ONLY PUT IT AT ONE! it will make a suttle difference that is applealing to the eye.

Hope this helped. Any more questions feel free to ask.

no. the monitor plays the resolution of the video. it does NOT STRETCH THE VIDEO.

[Cs342]

Thats not it, your monitors resolution is seperate from the video resolution. Your monitor resolution basically tells you UP TO what resolutions you can play nicely on that monitor at full screen. So on a 2560 X 1600 monitor, you can watch 720p, 1080p, 1280p, 1440p all the way up.

For the distortion of 720p to 1080p.

If you take a video and you increase its resolution, what you are doing is stretching each pixel. Think of it like you are stretching a piece of fabric. One you stretch it too far, you can see all the fibers and fabric start to pull apart, and you can eventually see gaps in the fabric. It kind of is the same thing for video. As you stretch the video, each pixel starts to lose data, and they no longer become as clear as before. So from going to 720p to 1080p the footage will seem, blurrier. It may not be by much, but if you have the editing eyes that i have, then you will be able to tell and it will piss you off.

So whatever resolution you film your footage in, is what you should upload it / render it in. 720p is more than enough noadays, especially if you are uploading to youtube. If you are looking to get better quality, play around with render settings, make sure you have appropriate frame rates, and know how to use good color correction and grading to make the video even better. Sometimes (especially in vegas) if you add a sharpness filter on the footage and ONLY PUT IT AT ONE! it will make a suttle difference that is applealing to the eye.

Hope this helped. Any more questions feel free to ask.

so it would just leave black boxes for the "extra" pixels that aren't being used?

[Bill Cosby]

Thats not it, your monitors resolution is seperate from the video resolution. Your monitor resolution basically tells you UP TO what resolutions you can play nicely on that monitor at full screen. So on a 2560 X 1600 monitor, you can watch 720p, 1080p, 1280p, 1440p all the way up.

For the distortion of 720p to 1080p.

If you take a video and you increase its resolution, what you are doing is stretching each pixel. Think of it like you are stretching a piece of fabric. One you stretch it too far, you can see all the fibers and fabric start to pull apart, and you can eventually see gaps in the fabric. It kind of is the same thing for video. As you stretch the video, each pixel starts to lose data, and they no longer become as clear as before. So from going to 720p to 1080p the footage will seem, blurrier. It may not be by much, but if you have the editing eyes that i have, then you will be able to tell and it will piss you off.

So whatever resolution you film your footage in, is what you should upload it / render it in. 720p is more than enough noadays, especially if you are uploading to youtube. If you are looking to get better quality, play around with render settings, make sure you have appropriate frame rates, and know how to use good color correction and grading to make the video even better. Sometimes (especially in vegas) if you add a sharpness filter on the footage and ONLY PUT IT AT ONE! it will make a suttle difference that is applealing to the eye.

Hope this helped. Any more questions feel free to ask.

no. sorry, but i dont know how else to explain this... you can play anything on a monitor. So just get a high resolution monitor if you can.