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| for several years I was all 720 mostly because thats what my camera shot, as did cameras like HVX-200. then I started getting more 1080 from my own shoots and external footage coming in. on a G5 it ate 720 pretty easily, about as well as SD but kinda choked on 1080. enter 8 core intel boxes which handle 1080 just fine. I see no significant difference between handling 720 vs 1080 at any real level on this hardware, unless you might be talking 10bit uncompressed... but who does that any more ? there are decent codecs to choose from, even if they aren't cross platform as we'd like, you can still work within your own ecosystem one way or the other ok. I see no additional expense to 1080 vs 720 at all outside of perhaps a little more drive space which is simply trivial in the big scheme of things. one reason I did 720 for a long time was simply that most TV sets where of the 1280 and 1366 variety and simply didn't show full res 1080. that changed about 5 years ago. Now I couldn't imagine doing 720 for deliverables. I will on some occasions use 720 from old projects. Using PP's CUDA scaling in RT its ok, although I probably notice the cameras are a bit noisy compared to what we now have to shoot with, even dslr's. the reality is that youtube will take 4K. 1080 is 1:1 pixels on most people's screens these days. iMac 27" ? most consumer sets are a true 1920X1080 these days being fed from Roku, ATV, computer or cable box. I really find no really go reason to produce 720 content anymore, especially as we look at 4K shooting & post to deliver 2K / 1080 for now, and 4K in the near term future of say, 5 years. S On Sep 18, 2013, at 9:08 PM, Jim Curtis <jpcurtis@me.com> wrote:
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