4k file playback Premiere & Windows

[Greg Janza]

As Tero suggests, you need to know what type of 4k material you’re trying to play back. What’s the codec and data rate?

The ability to play back 4k is primarily a function of the speed of your thru put. What type of drive is the media on? How fast are those drives. You can use the Blackmagic speed test utility to quickly determine if your drives are fast enough.

Also, the best place to test out your footage is inside of Premiere since you can choose your resolution level. I would avoid VLC.

Here’s an Apple White paper on pro res data rates to give you a sense of the bandwidth you’ll need to play back pro res 4k:

https://images.apple.com/final-cut-pro/docs/Apple_ProRes_White_Paper.pdf