Participating Frequently

Question

Downscaling 4k to 1080p

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
July 7, 2017
3 replies
10097 views

Hello, new to premiere and to this forum but i have searched all over the web and watched multiple videos on how to downscale a 4k video but for some reason when I follow instructions my frame size cannot be adjusted in sequence settings. Here are some screen shots of what i have going on. any help is greatly appreciated.

This topic has been closed for replies.

Szalam

Community Expert

It looks like your sequence settings are 1080p. You should be able to place your footage file in that sequence and scale it down.

D

David Arbor

Inspiring

Szalam those are just the settings for rendering previews. The 3840x2160 frame size is grayed out above.

Szalam

Community Expert

Sorry, somebody was talking in the office and I was typing at the same time and typed part of what they said. Instead of saying, "looks like your sequence settings..." I MEANT to say, "Make a new sequence with 1080p settings..."

Ann Bens

Community Expert

It looks like your are on an older version of Premiere.

You cannot change the excisting sequence.

You will have to make a new one (1920x1080) and copy content from old sequence into this new one.

All footage will probebly be zoomed in. Right click on all clips and Scale to framesize or scale down manually.

DanzinarAuthor

Participating Frequently

I am on an older version, CS5 on a 2011 MacBook pro. I created a new sequence with the frame size i want and copied content into it but still shows up as 3840x2160 when i click properties and its still unplayable on player.

D

David Arbor

Inspiring

You don't say what version of Premiere you're using, but this looks like an older one. It was in one of the CC versions that Adobe added the ability to change the frame size of an existing sequence. You have to create a new sequence and move your footage into it and then scale it down. Alternatively, you could create a 1080 sequence and nest your 4K sequence in it and then scale down, but that probably doesn't make a lot of sense.

DanzinarAuthor

Participating Frequently

I have moved my footage into a 1920 x 1080 sequence. How do I scale down from there?

D

David Arbor

Inspiring

I can't for the life of me get my program to mimic that of the many tutorials i keep finding. I found the scale in effect controls you spoke of and reduced that a lot but file size in the sequence still shows 3840x2160 when i go to properties and the preview window still skips around because my comp can't play 4k... do I have to apply the new settings before they take affect or something? Maybe i just need to upgrade my software or something. I stumbled across export in quicktime and it let me choose 1080 and took a minute to convert and i can view just fine. Is there any benefit to hassling with premier for the purpose of descaling a video or will it produce the same thing quicktime did automatically?

If you keep going back to that properties window from your first post you're not going to see the resolution change. That's the resolution of the file itself. You're just scaling it down in your timeline. Check the resolution of your Program monitor. At the bottom right of it you'll see Full, 1/2, 1/4, and depending on your timeline settings you could see 1/8, and 1/16. If you're viewing full res then it's going to be harder to play back. You haven't said anything about your hardware or where the footage is stored. There are way too many factors here that can contribute to slow playback.

If you just want to reduce the size of your footage without editing it, then use Adobe Media Encoder. You can apply one of the handy presets that matches your output destination.

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded