Do you remember this guide? (Amazed it's still available even after 10+ years.)
I know it was quite popular to resize movies in the Quake community, to release versions with different resolutions to suit the viewer's preferences, and how bad their PC was I guess, since not everyone could playback the highest resolution they used back then. Plus x264 required even more processing power, so they even released XviD versions.
What about the CS community? Did you resize anything at all? Do you know of any CS movies that had some sort of resizing? I suppose one reason we didn't see resizes was because of the HUD scaling.
I remember I did some quick tries in 2010, but it felt messy and took a lot of HDD space since I had a bad PC, 1280x1024 monitor and had to use HLAE to force a higher resolution. Took quite a lot of time too. Yesterday I felt like doing a proper try, lol.
(19:03:49) (+Dec) http://i.imgur.com/YfVvouY.png 960x540
(19:04:08) (+Dec) http://i.imgur.com/ttNfV8B.png 1920x1080 resized to 960x540
As you can see, the textures and objects farther away are sharper.
Today however, resizing feels pretty pointless since you could just make your movie in 1080p, upload it to Youtube and let the viewer adjust the resolution. Also one problem could be that even if you wanted to resize from say, 4K down to 1080p, you would have to own a monitor with 4K support, unless there is a way to "hack" your game. (HLAE, but that is only for a couple of games, plus it's broken at the moment.)

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