Rendering in high quality

Howdy! My first post here. I havent used Cinelerra since the old CV days, so a lot has passed me by.

Im wondering if someone can help me out with the setting s to render in really high quality, 1080p and 4K. I tried googling it, but didnt come up with much.

Thanks for the help!

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You dont say what kind of result are looking for i.e. lossless, visually lossless/intermediate or delivery such as mp4, so my suggestion is to start here first https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/CinelerraGG_Manual/ and read the render section. Theres too much in there to start throwing out wild guesses. :slight_smile:

Welcome to the forum!

@danielpmay

Yeah, DeJay is right but you should probably at least try this first:

Because H.264 is so widely used, the method in CINELERRA-GG Infinity is outlined below. These setup steps make it easy to just get started.

File → Render

File Format → FFMPEG + mp4

Video Wrench → Preset → h264.mp4 + bitrate: 6000000 (or whatever) + OK

Audio Wrench → Preset → h265.mp4 + bitrate: 224000 (or whatever) + OK

Set your target path in: Render → Select a file to render to

Set your timeline in: Render → Render range + click Project

Set your insertion strategy: Replace project (or whatever)

Press OK to start rendering.
A possible easy high quality to check would be File Format=FFMPEG + mov

and then video wrench to choose dnxhr_hqx.mov.

Thanks for the reply! Its going to be broadcast, as well as possibly a bluray. SOME of the clips in the video are 4k or 1080, some are not. Lossless is preferred.

Id like to be able to pick a resolution and render the project out to that, but CL doesnt make that super simple. At least without being familiar with what the individual codecs do