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Frame sizes, large and small

Frame sizes, large and small

- [Instructor] Frame size is just the horizontal and vertical resolution of your image. Confusingly, quite a few approaches are taken to naming them. Now let's start with an obvious naming convention, HD. It's 1,920 by 1,080 pixels. Then there's 1,280 by 720 too, of course, but full HD is 1,920 by 1,080. This frame resolution is usually referred to by the vertical resolution, as 1080p or 1080i, depending on whether it's interlaced or progressive footage. The same rule applies for 1,280 by 720 footage, which is called 720p usually because you'll find footage at that resolution is usually progressive. Now things get a little more complex. Ultra High Definition is four times the resolution of 1080. It's exactly double the resolution on each dimension, making it 3,840 by 2,160. This is usually abbreviated to UHD. In fact, there's an even bigger resolution that's 7,680 by 4,320 pixels too. And this is still categorized as Ultra High Definition. It's just bigger, even more Ultra High…

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