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Image Sizing and Resolution Independence
DaVinci Resolve is a resolution-independent application. This means that, whatever the resolution of your source media, it can be
output at whatever other resolution you like, and just about every size-dependent effect in your project, text, windows of grades, edit and input clip scaling, and other effects will scale appropriately to match the new output resolution.
This also means that you can freely mix clips of any resolution, fitting 4K, HD, and SD clips into the same timeline, with each scaling to fit the project resolution as necessary.
Your project’s resolution can be changed at any time, allowing you to work at one resolution, and then output at another resolution. This also makes it easy to output multiple versions of a program at different resolutions, for example, outputting 4K, HD, and SD sized versions of the same timeline.
Additionally, most controls that let you transform clips, either to push into a clip for creative intent, or to pan and scan media of one format to fit better into a different output format, are smart enough to always refer back to the source resolution when combining resizing operations to shrink, then enlarge an image for various reasons as you work in the Cut, Edit, Fusion, and Color pages.
This chapter covers the relationship among the different sizing and transform controls found in DaVinci Resolve, showing how they work together to intelligently manage the sizing of clips and effects as you work.