[Kdenlive-devel] auto rescale imported still images (feature request)

[robcanning]

cjubon wrote:
> robcanning schrieb:
>   
>> then after reading a 
>> bit realized that anything over 768 x 576 (or similar) would give no 
>> benefit? am i wrong about this? 
>>     
> If you use the whole image as it is, it won't give you a benefit. 
> However, if you want to zoom or pan over it, or simply use a detail as 
> still image (in Kdenlive, all this can be done via the PiP transition), 
> you'll be happy about not having it downscaled previously.
>
> cheers,
> cjubon
>
>   
>> robcanning wrote:
>>> José Jorge wrote:
>>>
>>
>> Well, the benefit is if you want to make 2 or 4K rendering.
>>
 thanks jose and cjubon,
i understand the whole thing a lot better now
any tricks to getting kdenlive to run smoothly while playing back a 
sequence of 2.2 MB jpg files or must i shrink them and then replace them 
before rendering as was suggested earlier
thanks
rob c

p.s. when would you render to 2 or 4k - when you make something for the 
cinema or something? what medium do you master to with a file of this 
resolution?