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Premiere Elements 4k and UHD blu-ray support?

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
November 24, 2022
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I just bought a new computer (after 15 years) and updated from Premeire/Photoshop Elements 11. I used to edit 1080 24p video in premeire, create a slide show for pics in organizer, export it to premeire timeline, then export the whole 1080 24p file to H264 AVCHD - then pull into DVD Architect to create menus and create a 1080 24p blu-ray (Premeire didn't have a burn option for this) ISO file. Burn to blu-ray with ImgBurn. With a new setup, I'm looking to start capturing video 4k and basically do the same.

What I want to do is Import/Edit 4k, create a 4k slideshow from photos and add to end of timeline, create disc menus and burn to a UHD Blu-ray at 4k 24p. I'd expect a modern package like Premeire/Photoshop Elements 2023 to be able to do all of this within itself - but it appears not?

I can import/edit 4k, but only export as a file? Organizer slideshow output limited to 1080p? No export slideshow to premeire timeline? No burn to blu-ray option? Am I missing something? I'd think there would be some advancement in 10 years.

If I can't do all in Elements, is there another program combo I'll need to use as before?

User interface or workspaces

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Ann Bens

Community Expert

If you want to make DVD or Blu-ray, you need a authoring program like

TMPGEnc Authoring Works 6 - The Ultimate DVD / Blu-ray / AVCHD Authoring Tool - Pegasys Inc.

You export with Mpeg2-dvd or H.264 Blu-ray from the advanced settings.

Both formats will give two files: one for video and one for audio.

TMPG will import these file and burn to disk without re-encoding.

Forget about UDH bluray: not feasible.

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jdpost1263Author

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Follow up -

I was able to edit/export the 4k file from Premiere and write to blu-ray disc using DVDFab - UHD creator. Resulting video on disc was 2160p and played on a UHD blu-ray player to a 4k TV the same as if it was written to a USB flash drive for playback. Only bummer is no menu or chapter markers on finalized disk.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

Did you use a regular BD disk or UHD BD disk?

Premiere? I am guessing you mean Elements.

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Bill Sprague

Community Expert

Premiere Elements will import, edit and export 4K. The current version has no features for DVD or Blu-Ray 'burning'. That has been removed. If you want a 4K project, build it in Premiere Elements, not Organizer.

As far as I know, no current Adobe program supports Blu-Ray burning. I would reccomend one if I knew a good one! It seems that with the explosion of YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, etc, a lot of the video world has moved away from disc. With so many viewing on phones, tablets and computers, discs are too limiting. Even our TVs have USB ports for videos on thumbdrives.

If you bought directly from Adobe via download, you have 30 days to get a full refund.

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jdpost1263Author

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PS - I also have Magix Movie Studio Suite 2023 and am having same problem - no one stop shop for what I want to do. I saw in another thread to get Pegasys TPMGenc Authoring Works 6 to be able to write 4k 24p to UHD blu-ray - but can I get the output file I need from Premiere (including a 4k slideshow) into it?

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jdpost1263Author

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Sorry for additional related question - 24 was the standard framerate for 1080p (and I would shoot/edit/burn all at that). Is 24p still the standard frame rate for 4k? I just assumed so but could be wrong. If different, I'd change what I said above related to frame rate.

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Bill Sprague

Community Expert

I don't know if there is a standard frame rate. Current cameras, drones, etc have multiple frame rate choices to suit the users project goals. For "filmic" motion effect with video, 24 fps can still be used. For slideshows, I don't know if it matters.

If you leave Organizer out of your workflow, I think you may be able to create a Blu-Ray from a 4K output with Imagburn. I've not created a Blu-Ray in several years.

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