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"Derick Rhodes is a footage content producer at Shutterstock. This post was originally published on the\u00A0Shutterstock blog\u00A0and has been adapted with permission.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMost video editors, production companies, and broadcasters around the world have been adjusting to working with the new 4K video format. Here's some information to help you decide if 4K is right for your projects.\r\nWhat is 4K?\r\n4K refers to displays and videos that offer a horizontal resolution close to 4000 pixels and a vertical resolution close to 2000 pixels (HD, by comparison, is 1920 x 1080). The reason this resolution is described as &amp;quot;close to&amp;quot; these measurements is that slightly different standards have been adopted for television broadcast and cinema projection.\r\n\r\nVideo:\u00A0Seattle Space Needle Aerial by spotmatik\r\n\r\nFor TV broadcast, 4K is commonly referred to as 4K Ultra HD. The resolution of this format is twice that of HD, which equates to the pixels being exactly doubled horizontally (3840) and vertically (2160). In other words, you can fit exactly four full HD videos into one 4K Ultra HD frame. This is the size that has been adopted by the vast majority of manufacturers producing 4K Ultra HD TVs, as well as the broadcasters and streaming services (including Netflix and Amazon) currently producing 4K content.\r\n\r\nFor 4K digital cinema projection, a standard horizontal width of 4096 pixels (2160 vertically) was established by the\u00A0Digital Cinema Initiatives\u00A0group, a joint venture of the major motion picture studios.\r\n\r\n[caption id=&amp;quot;attachment_745824&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;aligncenter&amp;quot; width=&amp;quot;730&amp;quot;] 4K is roughly four times the size of HD, which equates to much more detailed videos, shot on cameras capable of capturing a level of depth and clarity that far surpasses HD.[/caption]\r\nWhy is 4K important?\r\n4K is quickly becoming the industry standard for capturing video, with an increasing number of feature films, television shows, and even amateur videos being shot in the format. As 4K Ultra HD televisions become less expensive and more content is made available in 4K, it's anticipated that it will become the new standard, both in broadcasting and online.\r\n\r\nVideo:\u00A0Family footage by spotmatik\r\n\r\nMaking the move to 4K now, whether you're producing a video for web streaming, TV broadcast, or a feature film, ensures that your project will have enough resolution to work well as 4K adoption takes hold. In short, licensing 4K is a great way to future-proof your work. One of the other benefits\u2014if your final video is HD or smaller\u2014is the ability to crop without losing resolution.\r\nHow big are 4k files?\r\nCurrently, our average 4K file size is 816MB. 4K files tend to be much larger than HD, since so much more data is involved, so it's important to be sure you have a computer with enough processing power and memory to work with such large files.\r\n\r\nVideo:\u00A0Joshua Tree Timelapse by Mount Airy Films"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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