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How do I improve sharpness of foliage and distant objects during video recording?

You are most likely observing Optical Aberration - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_aberration and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defocus_aberration. Haze is also likely a contributing ...
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Why to use lower case "1080p" and "1080i" but not capital "1080P" and "1080I"?

Here are my starting premises. In the scientific community, There are some standards in the assignation of letters for units. Normally a capital letter is assigned if the unit cames after the last ...
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Why is 4K downsampled so much better than 1080p at low bitrates?

First let me explain chroma subsampling, as this is the reason why 4k -> 1080p always looks better than native 1080p Consumer & pro-sumer camera gear, anything not super high end, cuts some ...
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What causes the 1080p version of a video to be blocky but the 4k version look perfectly fine?

As far as I know YouTube always re-encodes the videos you upload. Sometimes this can introduce a larger degradation, especially if the video you upload is already a pretty compressed format. You could ...
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4k upscaled Blu-Ray vs 4k upscaling on a TV

It really depends on the methods of upscaling in both cases, but your TV upscales "on the fly" for each moment, which is meant to be fast while compromising on quality. One would imagine a studio ...
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Can upconverting 1080p videos on 4k TVs, lower their quality?

Upsample by an integer ratio can be completely blameless, just repeating pixels and lines gets it done, no new information, and you get only the original resolution displayed, but no losses either. ...
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Editing 4k footage in 1080p project and rendering in 4k?

To expand on @Dul32's answer: Below is the settings dialog for a new sequence. The settings for the preview (what you see when you're editing) are at the bottom, the actual pixels settings for the ...
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Editing 4k footage in 1080p project and rendering in 4k?

There is two option at sequence setting. Video and video previews. If the video set 4k, and the video previews set 1080, i shoud not be downscale at rendering.
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