Everyone,
I have a MacBook Pro and I am looking for an application which can edit 8K video. I currently have iMovie and Adobe Premier Pro. Both of these applications can import 8K video. But when it comes to outputting the video after the editing process, I cannot find any 8K output formats.
Does anyone know of an application /editor which can both import , edit and output 8K video please ??
Many thanks in advance for any help.
Davinci Resolve Studio exports 8k (select custom resolution). Not sure about the free version - download and try it.
Be aware that your computer will need adequate hardware capabilities.
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Unless you are in the film industry, I'm struggling to understand why anyone would want to work with 8K video for anything right now.
Starglider Photography the same argument was made about 4K not that long ago!
Unless you are in the film industry, I'm struggling to understand why anyone would want to work with 8K video for anything right now.
At the moment you are right and in broadcast we don't use anything above 4k but maybe he's experimenting.
It depends on the context and purpose. As an example, there's a new 360 degree camera that records in 8k. The Insta360 X4.
Dennis Bloodnok Photography said
Everyone,
I have a MacBook Pro and I am looking for an application which can edit 8K video. I currently have iMovie and Adobe Premier Pro. Both of these applications can import 8K video. But when it comes to outputting the video after the editing process, I cannot find any 8K output formats.
Does anyone know of an application /editor which can both import , edit and output 8K video please ??
Adobe Premiere Pro can definitely output in 8K as a HEVC (H.265) file. It's listed as 8K UHD on the presets.
Unless you are in the film industry, I'm struggling to understand why anyone would want to work with 8K video for anything right now.
For me, three reasons.
Firstly you can crop in on 8K footage and output at 4K with no loss of detail that you'd get if you recorded it in 4K.
Secondly, you might have said the same about HD/4K before those formats were established, and looking forward 5, 10, 15 years even higher resolutions will of course become the norm, and if you have footage recorded at the highest resolution available at the time it will look better for longer. Just compare scenes recorded on 35mm film last century against those recorded on video tape for TV at the time. Tape was fine then, but look awful now, film still looks decent.
Third reason...it's nice to experiment.
Unless you are in the film industry, I'm struggling to understand why anyone would want to work with 8K video for anything right now.
It has its benefits, you cant really tell in terms of quality as most people will still be watching on 4k screens or less but the major benefit I have found to filming in 8K is the ability to recompose in post if its needed also the part of reason I shoot a 60mp camera. Sometimes its great to have all that resolution just to be able to recompose if you cant for some reason get close enough or if you want to run it through something like catalyst browse for stabilisation.
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Starglider Photography I’m not sure there’s ever going to be that much of a need for 8K. You have to fill a very large field of view to make it worthwhile. That means bigger screens or fewer seats in the same size cinemas - hardly commercially viable.
ChrisSallis the OP was specifically talking about outputting 8K. I shoot 5.7K open matte for the same reasons you mention, you have a lot more flexibility in terms of what 4K crop you take, either deliberately or through stabilisation. And because I have more vertical space to play with, despite my antipathy towards it more vertical crops look better.
Ah yeah for outputting I’m with everyone else on DaVinci Resolve I don’t know if the free version can do 8k or not but studio is a one off payment for life. It’s worth looking at their hardware like the speed editor you can often get that for the same price as the studio license alone and it comes with studio in the box. Just a bit extra value for money. Unlike premiere pro that’s a monthly subscription and crashes all the time.
ChrisSallis said
Ah yeah for outputting I’m with everyone else on DaVinci Resolve I don’t know if the free version can do 8k or not but studio is a one off payment for life. It’s worth looking at their hardware like the speed editor you can often get that for the same price as the studio license alone and it comes with studio in the box. Just a bit extra value for money. Unlike premiere pro that’s a monthly subscription and crashes all the time.
Worth mentioning to anyone thinking about making the jump is that 8K editing needs a pretty beefy computer to process it. Regardless of whether you use Premiere Pro or Resolve, if you ain't got the processing power your PC will crash or be unworkably slow.
When I started editing 4K footage eight or so years ago I did find Resolve struggled much more on my PC at the time than Premiere Pro did, but that may well not be the case now with 8K.
