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DMH79
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April 3, 2015
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Optimizing Premiere Pro CC to work with a 4k Monitor

  • April 3, 2015
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Can someone tell me how to work on Premiere Pro CC 2014 (currently 8.2) on a 4k monitor with scaling set at 100%. If I don't scale anything then all the text and icons and everything is WAY too small.

Photoshop seems to have a handy 200% scaling feature which works and looks great. But what about Premiere? I thought the latest version (8.2) was "optimized" to work with 4k monitors?? Doesn't seem like it. I see I can increase the font size in the project panel but that's about it. It needs to be scaled to 150-200% ...BUT... if you do that, then the vertical scrolling on the timeline gets all screwed up and does not work.

4k rez screen looks great and all but without scaling things are SOOOOO tiny! Help!

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visualdave
Participant
November 28, 2019

Here is the correct answer.  DO NOT edit your registry settings.

1. Right click on the executable program file icon (Premiere and Photoshop and any others you want to change, need to be done separately)

2. Select "Properties"

3. Select the "Compatibility" tab

4. at the bottom, click "Change settings for all users"

5. at the bottom of the next window, click "change high DPI settings"

6. at the bottom of the next window, check the box that says "Override hight DPI scaling behavior."

7. Under that checkbox, there's a dropdown window that has a heading that says "Scaling Performed by:"  Choose "System" from the three options.

8. Save all settings and re-open Premiere or Photoshop (or the program you're adjusting).

9. Finished!  Everything should look fine 🙂

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davidpayne1981
Known Participant
November 7, 2017

does anyone know if the new 2018 update fixes this, in my opinion, crippling bug!

I'm going to assume not but I'd rather not update based on feedback about the way it handles multiple projects, however, if it helps with the 4k screen thing I'll be instantly downloading it!

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    robinw56448765
    Participant
    December 6, 2017

    Well... It doesn't...

    This is a 2 or 3 years old bug and it is still unfixed...

    I tried on Mac OS Sierra (I have both operating systems on my PC), and it works perfectly. Good scaling, good timeline zoom... But it's a mess on Windows :/

      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
      Legend
      November 6, 2018

      I"ve seen some comments that both Ae and PrPro worked ok at 150% scaling, but not at 125%. I haven't verified it, but ... might be worth trying.

      Neil

      Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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      bwone
      Participant
      June 14, 2015

      I just had this same issue but just recently got an update from Adobe and now Premier Pro works fine with my 4K display.  (Perfect timing as I just signed up for CC three days ago)

      Apparently it is in the October 2014 release. https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/whats-new.html#updated_UI

      Seems that when you sign up for Adobe you don't get all the updates at first maybe?

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      walkerbuzzbell
      Participating Frequently
      November 2, 2015

      I have yet to see any confirmation of this - can anyone say that when EDITING on a 4K monitor the Premiere User Interface and UI FONT's, WINDWO UI, etc.,  - not the content you create in the bins - - scales up to be useable on 4K monitors?

      Thanks

      ana_bee
      ana_bee
      Participating Frequently
      July 27, 2017

      as part of this 2 year battle to solve this issue I did indeed try a 32" monitor and the text was still tiny without scaling.


      davidpayne1981  napisał(-a)

      as part of this 2 year battle to solve this issue I did indeed try a 32" monitor and the text was still tiny without scaling.

      I am using a 32" 4K monitor too, along with two 26" FHD monitors. To make the mouse cursor, text and everything else the same size on all monitors, the 4K monitor wolud have to be 52" big. That's why windows introduced the scaling option, which works great in almost every other software (even Adobe's other programs).

      Stefan Gruenwedel Pracownik 2017-07-21 17:45 (w odpowiedzi na davidpayne1981)

      Have you logged the bug in this channel?

      Feature Request/Bug Report Form

      I did a few times too. No response.

      Jim_Simon 2017-07-22 07:14 (w odpowiedzi na davidpayne1981)

      Then you might need yet a larger monitor for your eyes.

      Please don't be cynical, looks like you don't wanna help, but rather insist this is not an issue.

      If there was at least an option to properly disable or ignore windows scaling in Premiere Pro, I would use it despite very small letters. However, I don't want to disable windows scaling completely, as it makes instant mess in my muliple monitor setup, and makes every other activity I do on my computer a really upleasant, tiny experiece.

      davidpayne1981 2017-07-22 07:44 (w odpowiedzi na Jim_Simon)

      or wait for adobe to fix this bug (because it IS a bug)

      Another decade or so and we might be able to use 4k monitors without issue

      Let's be honest, this is a bug, and a very annoying one. Also, even if I had three 4K monitors side by side, I would still use Windos scaling because it MAKES LIFE EASIER and that's what every software, every update shoul do. Please help us with this insead of making silly comments.

        admbsims
        admbsims
        Participant
        April 19, 2015

        Hopefully you are running windows 7. I have the Dell Ultrasharp 4k monitor,  and what I have done is go into control panel in Windows and then Display (in the appearance and personalization). Once you are in there, you can see a few options on the left. Click on "set custom text size (DPI)". There you will see a measure scale with inches on it. Find a ruler (measuring stick) in your home, and scale the inches on the screen to the same size as your ruler by grabbing and dragging the scale on the screen. For instance, mine is set to 193% and everything looks perfect now. However, there will be programs who do not have the DPI option. Photoshop, you have to go into the program preferences -> experimental features and check the box that says "scale UI 200%", then reopen the program. Anyways, I hope this helps. Hopefully you are running the monitor with 1.2 DP connection for 60hz also. This is a good temporary fix until all programs and operating systems adjust their settings to run on 4k displays.

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        DMH79Author
        Inspiring
        April 20, 2015

        Thanks for your response. I'm running Windows 8.1 so the Display settings aren't set up like that. I tried enlarging text and also I scaled things in the display settings and everything looked great while running 4k resolution (yes, at 1.2DP 60Hz). BUT the issue was...Premiere.  It would not work correctly when things were scaled. The timeline became erratic and mostly unresponsive so I had to switch back to 1440p. I did use the Photoshop Experimental 200% feature and it worked great. Sadly, Premiere doesn't have that.

        Any other ideas?

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        excited_Genie16B8
        Legend
        April 13, 2015

        How large is your screen?

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        DMH79Author
        Inspiring
        April 13, 2015

        Thanks for the responses. My screen is 28". Asus 4K Monitor. PC running Windows 8.1 with 6-core CPU and GTX970 GPU, etc. etc.  Interesting that Photoshop has that "experimental feature" of scaling the program 200% which worked great when I tried it. Why can't Premiere. I'm running at 2560x1440 for now. But that makes me wonder what good is a 4k screen then?

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          excited_Genie16B8
          Legend
          April 14, 2015

          My screen is 28".

          Ah, there's the issue.  At 28, you'd probably have been better off with a 2560 x 1440 monitor.

          MarkWeiss
          MarkWeiss
          Inspiring
          April 13, 2015

          I tried to use my 4K monitor as a primary, but I couldn't get my Wacom Intuos to even see that desktop. I ended up making it the Adobe Monitor 2, and show 4K at 1:1 pixel ratio on it.

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          nagol5178SN
          Participant
          April 13, 2015

          You do what you do on a Macbook Retina display. Set it at a lower resolution, the icons and programs will then get bigger, like a 2560x1440. That's what I'd do on a 27 inch. For other sizes I'm not sure.

          You may then ask, "But then I'm not seeing 4k. resolution." You switch back and forth, if you want to see your video play in 4k, change it and then go full screen and watch it. But while you're working on it, you don't need the display to be set at 4k resolution.

          Mac nor Windows have really made their operating systems look right on 4k yet because not many have them. In the future, basically everything by default would be higher resolution, therefore making it bigger, such as an icon on your desktop.

          The Macbook Pro retina display for example, it is NOT set to full resolution, not does it even give you the option to without downloading a tool to hack it. But what retina does, is doubles the pixies. So it'll show 1400x900 and it looks like any other 1400x900 display, as far as size of icons, programs, etc, but the pixels are doubled so its sharper.

          Now Apple has already made the option available, where if you have a 4k monitor, you can set it to something like 2560x1440 so everything is big and normal sized, but the pixels are doubled, making it a retina type of display.

          I don't know if PC has that option or if there is a program for that option, that would make it sharper and you could still see everything. But even if PC doesn't have the doubling option, just scale it down because using it at native 4k might literally hurt your eyes. I can't use my macbook at anything past 1400x900 or it'll be too small. Yet the resolution is over 2k.

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          DMH79Author
          Inspiring
          April 6, 2015

          Does anyone use a 4k monitor on a PC? How do you "scale" it so that it's workable and not so small yet functions normally in Premiere CC?

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          DMH79Author
          Inspiring
          April 12, 2015

          DMH79 wrote:

          Does anyone use a 4k monitor on a PC? How do you "scale" it so that it's workable and not so small yet functions normally in Premiere CC?

          Might Premiere Pro be usable with a 4k monitor in the next version of Premiere Pro soon to be released? Right now, I can't figure out how to scale it to a usable size on my PC running 8.1

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