{"id":817,"date":"2026-02-12T07:47:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/?p=817"},"modified":"2026-02-13T04:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:35:03","slug":"edit-and-finish-in-4k-but-monitor-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/edit-and-finish-in-4k-but-monitor-hd\/","title":{"rendered":"Edit and finish in 4K but monitor HD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817?print=print\" 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generative AI tools.<\/p><p>As of early 2026, Adobe Premiere Pro still doesn\u2019t support real-time down conversion from a 4K editing timeline to an HD external monitor (2026 or earlier version) using an interface like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackmagicdesign.com\/products\/ultrastudio\">BM Ultra Studio. <\/a>Only way in Premiere is to screen 4K on your computer monitor. <br \/>If you know for sure your deliverable is HD 1920&#215;1080, work on an HD timeline with the 4k scaled to 50%.<br \/>But that can really cost you if you edited a show for broadcast and then be asked to make a 4k DCP for theatrical. You&#8217;ll have to go back to the 4K frame rate (most likely 23.98 not 29.97) and redo all the resizing done on the HD timeline. Hopefully your GFX size up and position correct!<br \/>On the web people are saying &#8220;Just set unsupported frame size to scale down&#8221; Blackmagic\u2019s hardware and drivers can output whatever Premiere requests, but Premiere only sends a single output feed. 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Even with a 4K timeline.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9e46e0d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"9e46e0d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-229a1ec elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"229a1ec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4k-mon-HD_AVID-only-with-hw-connected-res-BM-show-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-820\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4k-mon-HD_AVID-only-with-hw-connected-res-BM-show-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4k-mon-HD_AVID-only-with-hw-connected-res-BM-show-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4k-mon-HD_AVID-only-with-hw-connected-res-BM-show-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4k-mon-HD_AVID-only-with-hw-connected-res-BM-show-scaled-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4k-mon-HD_AVID-only-with-hw-connected-res-BM-show-scaled-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f0bec4f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f0bec4f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a97acd8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a97acd8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Same in Resolve where monitor settings are independent from timeline resolution. <br \/>In all cases use proxies if performance is an issue.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-efd277b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"efd277b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-119a22d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"119a22d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"494\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4k-mon-HD_RESOLVE.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-822\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4k-mon-HD_RESOLVE.png 494w, https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4k-mon-HD_RESOLVE-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4k-mon-HD_RESOLVE-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This content was written and edited solely by Mike\u2014a human author\u2014without the use of generative AI tools. As of early 2026, Adobe Premiere Pro still doesn\u2019t support real-time down conversion from a 4K editing timeline to an HD external monitor (2026 or earlier version) using an interface like the BM Ultra Studio. Only way in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/edit-and-finish-in-4k-but-monitor-hd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Edit and finish in 4K but monitor HD&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikes-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}