How do I know whether the device im using to render a video, is rendering it in 4K? I’m not familiar with the nomenclature, but by device I’m talking about anything capable of generating video, such as a camera (which records video), or a ps5 (which generates a video or graphics?)
What do I need to have / do to be able to view a 4K video in the “best way” possible (im not sure how to frame this exactly – I want to watch a 4K video in 4K, perhaps?)
If im viewing this video on an external monitor, what changes?
If the monitor is 4K, does that suffice? What cabling will I need, if at all?
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Pixels are a small light source that’s a single color, typically a mix of red, green or blue
Graphics is generally used to refer to the quality of what’s being shown
Resolution is the amount of pixels and is in the format X×Y, such as 1920×1080, 2560×1440, 5120×1440, 3840×2160
The first set of numbers is the amount of pixels horizontally, so 4k would be 3,840 pixels from left to right, and 2,160 pixels vertically
Some ways to improve the quality of the image is to use something called supersampling, what this does is it renders the image at a higher resolution than what the output is capable of, then averages the colors out before scaling it down which can result in a smoother image, another way is to have a higher bitrate
You know how when you view stuff like TVs, or monitors in the store, the videos look much better than once you get it, one of the reasons for that is because the videos they play have a much higher bitrate than videos found on YouTube for example, but the downside is the file sizes are much larger, which is also why images that photographers take tend to be much bigger in file size than something like your phone
You also want to make sure your cables are able to handle the bandwidth, higher resolution, higher refresh rate, and more color/audio bits all increase the bandwidth demand, generally Display Port have much higher bandwidth than the equivalent HDMI generation
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