Editing Display resolution (section)

== Film industry ==
{{Further information|Display resolution standards|List of common display resolutions}}
As far as [[Digital cinematography#Video formats|digital cinematography]] is concerned, video resolution standards depend first on the frames' aspect ratio in the [[film stock]] (which is usually [[motion picture film scanner|scanned]] for [[digital intermediate]] post-production) and then on the actual points' count. Although there is not a unique set of standardized sizes, it is commonplace within the motion picture industry to refer to "''n''K" image "quality", where ''n'' is a (small, usually even) integer number which translates into a set of actual resolutions, depending on the [[film format]]. As a reference consider that, for a 4:3 (around 1.33:1) aspect ratio which a film frame (no matter what is its format) is expected to ''horizontally fit in'', ''n'' is the multiplier of 1024 such that the horizontal resolution is exactly ''1024•n'' points.{{citation needed |date=May 2018}} For example, [[2K resolution|2K reference resolution]] is {{resx|2048|1536}} pixels, whereas [[4K resolution|4K reference resolution]] is {{resx|4096|3072}} pixels. Nevertheless, 2K may also refer to resolutions like {{resx|2048|1556}} (full-aperture), {{resx|2048|1152}} ([[HDTV]], 16:9 aspect ratio) or {{resx|2048|872}} pixels ([[Cinemascope]], 2.35:1 aspect ratio). It is also worth noting that while a frame resolution may be, for example, 3:2 ({{resx|720|480}} NTSC), that is not what you will see on-screen (i.e. 4:3 or 16:9 depending on the intended aspect ratio of the original material).