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Any FREE or good and cheap 4K to 1080P Converters?
OffTheMark [Avatar]
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My camera (a6300) works best when shooting 4K, but my computer would much rather have me edit in HD.

Are there any free (or good but cheap) converters that will lossley convert 4K to 1080p?

The 4K would be in XAVC-S codec with an MP4 wrapper, if that makes a difference.

On the other hand, is there a way to import the 4K clips into PowerDirector, convert them to 1080p before doing any editing, and then edit / grade those 1080p clips?Thanks in advance.
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OffTheMark [Avatar]
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Thanks, Skibum;

Does the free version work with 4K files? For some reason I thought the free version only worked with HD files. (Maybe I am thinking of lightworks).
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ynotfish
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G'day OffTheMark -

I don't think I'd be doing any conversion before grading, and you don't need a converter anyway.

Skibum has the right idea - whether you're using ColorDirector or Resolve - import the 4K clip(s) and do your colour correction THEN produce to H.264 MP4 1920x1080 with the same framerate as the original clips & at whatever bitrate your final video will be.

After that you can import all your 1080 colour graded clips into PDR for editing.

That's what I'd do anyway.

Cheers - Tony
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Quote: Thanks, Skibum;

Does the free version work with 4K files? For some reason I thought the free version only worked with HD files. (Maybe I am thinking of lightworks).




Sorry

I think your right.

The free version doesn't do 4K

My bad Asus X79-Deluxe, Intel i7-4930K, EVGA GTX 980ti, G.Skill memory 16GB, Corsair HX1000 PSU, OCZ Vertex4 SSD, OCZ Vector180 480GB, (2)Western Digital Black 1TB(RAID0), Western Digital 2TB, LG Blue Ray Burner, Lite-on DVD Burner, Logitech G19 keyboard, Window
PepsiMan
Senior Contributor Location: Clarksville, TN Joined: Dec 29, 2010 01:20 Messages: 1054 Offline
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hello.

Quote:

Are there any free (xx xxxx xxx xxxxx) converters that will lossley convert 4K to 1080p?





HandShake, oops i mean HandBrake & RMMC (RockyMountains Movie Converter) v2.

RMMC does ProRes 422 & 444.



i don't do any AVI! yell



happy happy joy joy

PepsiMan

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OffTheMark [Avatar]
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Quote: G'day OffTheMark -

Skibum has the right idea - whether you're using ColorDirector or Resolve - import the 4K clip(s) and do your colour correction THEN produce to H.264 MP4 1920x1080 with the same framerate as the original clips & at whatever bitrate your final video will be.

After that you can import all your 1080 colour graded clips into PDR for editing.

Cheers - Tony


Thanks, that sounds simple enought that maybe even I could do it.

Hopefully my computer will handle grading 4K.

And just to confirm (because I am a slow learner); I can produce directly from ColorDirector down to 1080p???
PepsiMan
Senior Contributor Location: Clarksville, TN Joined: Dec 29, 2010 01:20 Messages: 1054 Offline
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Quote: Firstly, I should mention I am still using the trial version...



trial versions don't do 4K.

you have options to get your refund if you don't like the FULL version and

the PD15 is just around the corner!



happy happy joy joy

PepsiMan

'garbage in garbage out'

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'no bridge too far'

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I happen to find a program called Free Video DVD Converter Ultimate that has the perfect support for 4K XAVC S, it also allows to you compress 4K to 1080p by lowering the output video resolution as 1080p or 720p. The CyberLink PowerDirector 12 Ultra and later version has native support for 4K resoliution video, you don't need to compress 4K to 1080p.
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Senior Member Joined: Mar 30, 2014 12:49 Messages: 167 Offline
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Try Freemake Video Converter.

But I recommend Cyberlink MediaEspresso. Buy PowerDVD on the Cyberlink site that has this software as a free bonus. It is cheaper.

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Neil.F.1955 [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Joined: Mar 07, 2012 09:15 Messages: 1303 Offline
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Quite recently I looked up the site for downloading DaVinci Resolve after seeing it demo'd on YouTube. So far, so good. Tried to download as prescribed by the YT vid..... BRICK WALL! Only got as far as filling in details, there was nowhere to click to initiate the download. After about 5 or 6 attempts I gave up. Can't be bothered! I don't care if I never hear about this software ever again... I'll stick with Power Director. I've got PD8 and PD14 on my computer, they'll do me!
glowx231 [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jan 19, 2015 12:06 Messages: 32 Offline
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TEncoder Video Converter, which is free, might be helpful.
jeffcard [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Sep 21, 2016 04:28 Messages: 2 Offline
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There are many online apps can do the video conversion for you, such as zamzar, Acethinker Video Converter, mediaconverter, etc. They are totally free, and you don't have to download or install anything.
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