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Convert 4K to 1080p Video for playing

Convert 4K to 1080p Video for playing

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Why Choose to Downscale/Convert Ultra HD 4K to 1080p?

4K video is more and more popular, the 4K video quality is higher, 4K media player standard is higher too. In another word, 4K bring user the high video quality enjoyment at the same time, there are some disadvantages to user, for example:

No 1. Less devices can support to play 4K video smoothly, especially main popular media player and handheld devices: VLC, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, etc.

No 2. A 2 minutes 4K video may occupy up to 450-500MB, common 4K video time is between 1 and 2 hours which occupy too much storage space.

No 3. To movie editing fan, it’s hard to edit 4K video in NLE software like iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere Pro, Cyberlink Powerdirector, etc.

No 4. Share video with others is a happy thing, however upload 4K video to YouTube, Facebook or other video sharing sites is difficult due to all kinds of reasons.

4K video vs 1080p

How to Downscale/Convert Ultra HD 4K to 1080p?

These factors mean that user will lose these features? Dod’t forget the 1080p HD video which can played on most devices and media player, downscale 4K to 1080p is a perfect choice. In fact, there are countless 4K Video Converter, which can convert 4K to 1080p video. Which one is worthy choosing? here, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate for Windows is considered to be the best 4K Video Converter.

Many media player not only can’t support 4K video resolution, some ven can’t support 4K video format, with this 4K Video Converter, user can transcode 4K videos to 1080p video with different formats: MP4, MOV, WMV, FLV, MPG, AVI, etc. This 4K Video Converter provides a special HD video column for user to choose.

Majority of media devices work well with 1080P (1080 x 1920) rather than 4K (4096 x 2160). This 4K Video Converter can convert 4K to 1080p video and work on any popular devices well, such as: Samsung, HTC, Sony, iPhone, iPad, etc,, user just need to choose the decices from the format list, this software has preinstalled all the video settings well.

Some people will worry about the 4K to 1080p video quality, in this 4K Video Converter, you can get the high quality without any particles, mosaic frames, any distortion phenomenons. Just a whole and perfect 1080p HD video.

Best of all, user not only can reduce the video size by downscaling 4K to 1080p video, also can edit the video for better sharing on various websites, like Instagram, vevo, yahoo, Myspace, ehow, etc. which don’t support 4K video, and limit the video time within 60s, each video frame is about 50MB, etc. Enter the editing menu, user can cut the video for some video clips, add watermark in video, replace the audio, etc. User also can enter the setting menu to adjust the video frame, size, bitrate, etc for better upload.

The powerful 4K Video Converter can support common video, also allows user to import DVD or Blu-ray to it. Mac user can download the 4K Video Converter for Mac, this review can help you to know mre about this software. Following will show the basic steps to convert 4K to 1080p video.

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How to Downscale/Convert 4K Video to 1080P with 4K Video Converter?

Step 1. Add 4K videos to 4K Video Converter

This software is very friendly to use, after the simple installation, open this 4K Video Converter, you have 2 options to load the 4K video which is according to the video source.

Option 1. 4K digital video: Click “File” menu, from its drop-down option, select “Add Video/Audio” to load 4K video to the4K Video Converter.

Option 2. 4K Blu-ray movie: Click "File" and choose Load Disc" to add Blu-ray disc, Blu-ray folder or ISO file to the best 4K Video Converter.

Add 4k source video files

Step 2. Choose 1080P video as output file

Come to the fatal step, choose the 1080p video format, click “Format” and open the drop-down list, choose the "HD Video" , the choose the output video format that you want. For compatibility consideration, MP4 is the most popular video format, you can choose"H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)" from "HD Video", also you can choose other video format based on different devices.

Select output file format

Step 3. Set 4K video to 1080p

Actually, when you choose the HD video, this 4K Video Converter has preinstalled the 4K to 1080P (1080 x 1920) resolution, at the right window of the software, click the "Setting" to enter the “Profile Settings” window, you can check the resolution on “Size(pix)” selection. also you can adjust the video resolution by yourself.

Compress 4K video to 1080p

Step 4: Convert 4K video to 1080p

After all the settings is completed, go back to the main interface, and hit right-bottom “Convert” button to start to convert and downscale 4K video to 1080p format videos. After the conversion is done, you can enjoy the video at any devices you want.

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