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July 7, 2017
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Downscaling 4k to 1080p

  • July 7, 2017
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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.

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Szalam
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SzalamCommunity Expert
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July 7, 2017

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

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David Arbor
Inspiring
July 7, 2017

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

    Szalam
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    SzalamCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 7, 2017

    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
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    Ann BensCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 7, 2017

    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.

    Danzinar
    DanzinarAuthor
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    July 7, 2017

    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.

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    David Arbor
    Inspiring
    July 7, 2017

    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.

    Danzinar
    DanzinarAuthor
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    July 7, 2017

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

    Danzinar
    DanzinarAuthor
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    July 8, 2017

    Thanks for posting. Unfortunately, that's not a powerful machine to be working with 4K in the way you're trying to. You're also running your apps on the same drive that your footage is on, and I'm guessing you don't have an SSD, so everything is too slow.

    4K requires a lot of horsepower to work with fluidly. If you want to edit these clips and not just downsize them you can convert your footage to 1080p ProRes files, which will be very large, but much easier to edit.


    Thanks for your help today David. Adobe media encoder worked great for what I needed to accomplish. Thanks for that suggestion. I'll upgrade before I try editing any 4k

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