I was having a discussion with another editing friend of mine and here's the situation. When editing 4k footage with the intention to export a project in 1080; he prefers to edit in a 4k sequence and then export a 1080 project. He'll scale the 4k up to essentially "digital zoom" in the 4k sequence, because "The downsampling at the end should negate the scaling in 4k." My preference is to edit the 4k footage in a 1080 sequence. I'll do the same "digital zoom" stuff but my sequence is just 1080. I then export in 1080. Thinking about it, it sounds like the same process, just done in a different order. I "scale down" early and he "scales down" at the end. Does this actually effect the quality of the final piece or would they turn out to be the same? Thanks in advance!
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