So if you can make sure that Neat Video is applied after the frame size is reduced, then you can achieve higher render speed. Whatever the reason is, the size reduction itself can help to speed up the render process because applying Neat Video to smaller frames is always faster than to larger frames.

There may be many other reasons why you might want or have to bring the frame size down.

In some cases, you need to downsize a clip in the edit, for example, when you want to bring a larger clip to a smaller-resolution project or when you need to crop a part of the larger frame. So it may be sufficient to upload a lower-resolution version. When you upload a high-resolution content to such a platform, the video typically gets heavily transformed by the platform’s video codecs and sometimes gets downsized. For example, large frame formats are not often used in online video platforms. However, you do not always need to produce the final video in the same high resolution. Many modern cameras are capable of recording video in high resolutions, such as 4K and higher. Filming in 4K, 6K, or even in 8K, but exporting in a lower resolution and waiting a looooong time for the render to complete? The good news is you can dramatically decrease render times if the final resolution needs to be lower than the original one.

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