SUPER SCALE in DaVinci Resolve | Upscale 1080p to 4K | EASY Tutorial

How to upscale 1080p to 4k? Using SUPERSCALE in Davinci Resolve is the fastest way. In this tutorial I teach you how to upscale 1080p to 4k video. The superscale function in Davinci Resolve upscales 1080p footage to 4k super easily and allows you to convert 1080p to 4k. This is a quick hack to upscale your old clips and videos and make them 4k resolution. If you have 4k footage you can even upscale 4k to 8k video!
I hope you enjoy this editing tutorial and let me know what is your preferred software: DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2021 or Final Cut Pro X?
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[haroldhoeffelman]

To your information, you have to set the Superscale to 2X (2x2) for HD to UHD, not 4x. The 3X is for 6K and the 4 x is for 8K.

[travelto]

SHARE WITH A FRIEND WHO SHOOTS 1080p, LOL

[prislander]

I was not aware of this feature in Resolve. THANK YOU for sharing this, Bro!

[Megalomaniakaal]

Worth mentioning that before they added AI to the upscaling it used to be in the free version without watermark. But that was version 15(which can still be downloaded from their support section) just the quality isn't the same I guess.

[pointlessrelic]

Studio 17 paid version. I admit I have been changing my timeline to 4k without doing the upscale. I can see my clips are larger by 25% when I select 2X so we shall see if my end product looks better and functions the same. That said, I also convert the clip to HDR and make edits post with green screen, sizing, fx, etc. Hoping it sill lets me do all that with this so I can improve my content. Thanks for the tip.

[ghostAndDarkness-on]

Actually I think you need to choose 2x
1080p footage is basically 2K. You want to change it to 4K, you double it (I know it's a bit confusing because you think it's 4x as many pixels, but in resolve I believe it's 2x =4k, 3x=6k, 4x=8k)

[GoranBackmanMusic]

Still useful! :) The reason why 4x doubles the output (and not 2x) is if you double the X and Y resolution the output image becomes 4 times larger. Some apps would still call that 2x though, but Resolve chose the more technically correct label. Thanks!

[theBullringLive]

Thanks Brah! Just saved me a bunch of money not having to buy some sort of hardware encoder. I'm sure my members that watch on the big screen will be happy as well

[ExacoMvm]

I think this is great method for youtube where you want to maintain the quality and not get it downgraded by Youtube.
But I would never use it for professional production unless the client asks for artificial upscale.

[eyeemotion]

I just upscaled a 720p to 1080p version. Now there is also a '2x Enhanced' option, that seems to have far better result than the 3x or 4x. Atleast in my case.

[mrsuperselenio]

dude.... huge THANK YOU, my lense has been faulty lately and the focus is off, had some footage that did not stayed clear, tried every type of increase definition to see if I would get some detail back and failed, completely forgot that upscaling exist. Upscale the video to 4k, then 8k and then back to 4k and the difference from the original is ridiculous... had to wait quite a while but totally worth it!

[osoanasteciado]

Render time in rtx 3060 for 3 minutes of video was only 5 minutes! Davinci made a lot of progress so happy!!!

[MathieuTechMoto]

Just did a test 1080p video with the recommended settings, 4x, 4k upscale and export, couldn't see any difference at all on my 4k monitor

[rusticagenerica]

May God bless you. I just used your trick !!!

[MrMolack]

What is the best way to upscale DV 4 x 3 footage to HD? IO'm trying in Davinci, but I have a lot of interlace...

[ezontheeyesphotography]

I think this is insane I will check it out. I think for a person like me with three Sony cameras (1)A7III and (2) A7SII it's perfect because in wedding videography you can't shoot in 60fps without making a decision on Framerate or quality. If you shoot everything in 24fps you can't slow the footage down but it's better quality and going 1080p allows 60fps or even 120fps for cinematic footage but downgrade the quality. I think as filmakers / content creators we grade our quality harder than the client ever will.

[TheThinkersBible]

The reason you have to pick 4x to double the resolution is because you have to double the pixel count for both dimensions, vertical and horizontal. So 2x vertical pixels x 2x horizontal pixels = 4x total pixels for double the resolution.

[qproductionslasvegas]

Thank you . Excellent quick tutorial. Just put it to use for some footage I needed for a commercial in Taiwan. Cheers!

[joyoffilming]

Big thumbs Up! Worked out so well! thanks for this great tutorial.

[hdmoviesource]

What about scaling and resize filter? What the bleeding edge settings there?