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4K to HD 1080 in Premiere Elements 15

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December 27, 2016
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I am a new user of Adobe Premiere Elements 15. I recently completed a video project. The person i had hired shot all of the footage in 4K at 3840 x 2160 at 25 FPS. My computer is windows 10 with a 1.80 TB hard drive, 20 GB of RAM, a NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 55TI video card and a i5-2400 CPU running at 3.10 GHz. I have had no problems running the software itself. I can still import the 4K video into the timeline. However, when i play back the video, the video is really choppy. Most of the time, the screen just turns a green color. When i play just the audio from the video, all i hear is a white noise. When i try to export the video as an HD 1080 file, the video will start to render. After a few minutes, i get an error message that says the video did not render properly even when the screen shows 100% on the export window.

I could really use some help resolving this issue. If anyone knows of a better way to render a 4K video to HD 1080 inside Premiere Elements 15, please let me know. I will provide further information if needed. Thank you

4k to hd 1080 in premiere elements 15

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Drummerdude36Author

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I have turned off the hardware acceleration option. This has not helped with 4K video playback. Do you have any other ideas?

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Bill Sprague

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Drummerdude36 wrote:
I have turned off the hardware acceleration option. This has not helped with 4K video playback. Do you have any other ideas?

No, I don't.

At the top you wrote, "However, when i play back the video, the video is really choppy. Most of the time, the screen just turns a green color."

The preview video is created in "real time". It sounds like you computer is not strong enough to do that with 4K video files (that are huge in comparison to what came before). If you can deal with the choppy part, output rendering may still work. At output, the computer will take its time and may create good, viewable files. If it sticks at green, it may be a lost cause.

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Steve Grisetti

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Your screen capture shows your preferences. Not your project settings.

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Drummerdude36Author

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Wrong window. Here are my current project general settings.

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Bill Sprague

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Your project settings match what my computer shows for 4K from Panasonic cameras.

In your first screenshot, the hardware acceleration box is checked. Would you please try turning that off.

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Steve Grisetti

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Premiere Elements doesn't use GPU acceleration, so your graphics card has nothing to do with how 4K will perform in Premiere Elements. It's all about matching your project settings to your video specs -- and processor speed.

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Drummerdude36Author

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Thank you for replying Mr. Grisetti. If you could elaborate a little more about matching project settings this would help. The man i hired to film my project used 4K with 3840 x 2160 resolution at 25 fps. I've been told that my video card can't play 4K video. I am not very familiar with 4K. Here are my system specs if you can provide some further insight.

Windows 10 64 bit

1.80 TB Hard drive

20GB RAM

Video Card: Nvidia Geforce 550 Ti

CPU: i5-2400 3.10 GHz

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Bill Sprague

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A couple posts up, Steve asked, "Is your project setting up correctly? When you add the first clip to your timeline, do you see a yellow-orange "render" line above it? [you] Should NOT see a yellow or green line above your first clip until you add effects or transitions to it if your project has properly set up to match your video (the key to efficient performance)." He followed that with, "Look under the program's Edit menu. What is listed on the General page of your Project Settings?"

Step 1 is opening a project. Step 2 is establishing the project settings. If there is a mismatch between the video you're editing and the project settings, things don't work.

Can you please answer Steve's questions about the project settings and yellow line?

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Drummerdude36Author

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Thanks for replying. I know my computer is old and i probably need to update. However, i was told that i could convert the 4K video to HD 1080 inside premiere elements 15. I attempted to export one of the 4K video clips as an HD 1080 file. The exporter started to run and i got an error message that said the video could not be converted. Even though it said 100% complete on the export window.

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Bill Sprague

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Drummerdude36 wrote:
..... However, i was told that i could convert the 4K video to HD 1080 inside premiere elements 15. ...

You were told correctly. I've been shooting 4K with a Panasonic camera for two years. Most of that I didn't have any way to view 4K so everything was "converted"/rendered/transcoded to HD. I used Premier Elements 13 until a month ago. My computer is a 4 year old i7 laptop with plenty of RAM and disk space. A year ago I took a lightweight i5 laptop on a trip and managed to edit 4K, but at a considerably slower pace.

So rather than assuming Premier Elements can't do it, please consider starting with Steve's question about how you are starting up the project. Something besides the software itself is causing the trouble.

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Drummerdude36Author

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My computer is able to run the software just fine without any problems. The only issue i know is my current video card. I don't think it's 4K compatible. I was able to render some of the video through an online rendering application. Some of the video did play but i did not ask the guy i hired to film me to shoot in 4K. This is for a personal project. Not a major motion picture.

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Drummerdude36Author

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My video card is a NVIDIA GEFORCE 550TI.

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Steve Grisetti

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You've got a kind of borderline processor for 4K. In my books, I recommend a processor that rates at 8000-10000 minimum. Yours rates a 5800.

PassMark Intel vs AMD CPU Benchmarks - High End

However, you should be able to do some basic 4K editing. As long as you're working with relatively short clips.

Is your project setting up correctly? When you add the first clip to your timeline, do you see a yellow-orange "render" line above it? Should NOT see a yellow or green line above your first clip until you add effects or transitions to it if your project has properly set up to match your video (the key to efficient performance).

Look under the program's Edit menu. What is listed on the General page of your Project Settings?

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