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Rendering Sizing Adjustments and Blanking
When rendering your final output, you have the option of choosing whether or not to “bake in” the sizing operations that have been performed. For example, you may have set up a whole set of specific sizing adjustments for the clips in a program, but then you’re requested to render the project and its media as individual clips for round trip re-delivery to the editor for further work. In this case, you can choose to either render the sizing into the final media, or not.
Whether or not sizing is rendered into your final media depends on the “Disable edit and input sizing” checkbox in the Advanced Settings options of the Render Settings panel. You can disable sizing and blanking either when rendering the current timeline as a single clip, or when rendering individual clips.
— If “Disable sizing and blanking output” is turned off: Output Blanking, Cut and Edit page sizing adjustments, Color page Input and Output Sizing adjustments, and Image Stabilization are rendered into the final rendered media using the optical-quality sizing algorithms available to DaVinci Resolve. This is best if your sizing adjustments are approved and final, and you want to “bake” sizing adjustments into the final media you’re delivering.
— If “Disable sizing and blanking output” is turned on: Output Blanking, Cut and Edit page sizing adjustments, Color page Input and Output Sizing adjustments, and Image Stabilization are not rendered, and each clip will be rendered either at the source resolution if “Render at source resolution” is enabled in individual clips mode, or to the currently specified resolution of the timeline or project. However, the sizing adjustments you’ve made will be exported as part of the
XML or AAF file that you’re exporting. This is best for workflows where the editor wants to continue adjusting sizing after you’ve handed off the graded project relative to the original size of the clips.
NOTE: “Disable sizing and blanking output” does not disable any transform operations that happen within the Fusion page. Those will continue to be applied to the final output.
NOTE: “Disable sizing and blanking output” does not disable any transform operations that happen within the Fusion page. Those will continue to be applied to the final output.
NOTE: “Disable sizing and blanking output” does not disable any transform operations that happen within the Fusion page. Those will continue to be applied to the final output.
Keep in mind that if you want to render Input Sizing adjustments into the media you’re outputting, the “Force sizing to highest quality” checkbox guarantees that DaVinci Resolve will use the highest-quality sizing setting, even if you’ve temporarily chosen a faster-processing option for a slower computer.