How To PROPERLY Upscale HD Video to 4K In Premiere Pro

Not everyone has a 4K camera, but most people have an HD/1080p camera. Here's how you can use Premiere Pro to upscale your HD video to create a 4K video file. The conversion is pretty good and is easy to do. Thanks for clicking "like." Be sure to SUBSCRIBE and share this video with other photography lovers.

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[antpruitt]

Somehow my audio didn't come out as stereo. Sorry about that.

[Visual-artist]

Thank you for this magical tip, I have been having so much worry about how to take a 4K video with my old-horse-Nikon D800, and you make it so easy. I tried it and it works like magic, thanks again, bro.

[harry_rambles]

I’m sure this is just scaling up 1080p to 4K (basically zooming in), and it’s not actually re-sampling the data and preserving the quality.

It still won’t be decent 4K I’m afraid without some proper superscale/ai upscaler

[DavidFlores-D-VR]

Great video, perfectly explained and easy to follow! I gotta say your 4K does look quite a bit clearer but the 1080 looks fantastic too :)

[orenmoscovici]

Very helpful! This just saved my school project in a matter of minutes! Thank you so much!!

[TorQueMoD]

This actually worked for my 720 p footage as well. Thanks so much for the tip!

[aisom]

I kind of thought that's how it was done, just hadn't tried it yet, but I had done it in older versions of Premier where I've converted 4:3 to 16:9. Thanks for the extra tips on the color correction and sharpening. Great video by the way, straight to the point and simple thanks my brother.

[superradness]

Heck yeah, thank you! I have some VHS footage that I’m trying to upscale at least a little bit.

[DigThat]

Weird they don't have the detail-preserving upscaler like in After Effects

[jole]

Now this is how you do explainer video, no fluff, straight to the point. Thanks bro.

[CREEDFILMSMEDIA]

DUDE thank you i was tryimg to figure out how to do this thanks man i still shoot on two canon 60ds am going to try this.

[SupThomas]

Great tutorial, still work perfectly in 2023. Really easy to follow and very succint. Thank you!

[ika]

Thanks for the handy trick! Saved my perfect take that was recoded in 1080p!

[magicmoviephotography]

Thank You Much Man For This Amazing HaCK Love

[NickMcMelin]

Subbed because you let the community know that AC is life and ya ain’t leaving it haha

[infinx]

ay thanks man! also, my left ear enjoyed it

[paperstacksfilms]

This is a valid option actually that i never really considered to get around the fact my camera doesnt do 4k 60p

[thomasbrown]

The AC comment was hilarious man. Love the honesty lol!

[TonyHobbs]

Can I then drag copy to a 4k timeline with 4k footage and export in 4k

ie I shoot 4k on gopro that is main sequence.
Shoot 360 camera and that probably exports to 1080 do what you say here in its own sequence once done put it on main sequence and edit there?
Thanks for great video

[ChrisGorges]

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks man