Compress XF400/XF405 4K to 1080p
Category : 4K Compressor
Main reasons that lead to compress Canon XF400/XF405 4K to 1080p
The XF400/405 are compact handheld camcorders which can record up to 60p UHD 4K MP4 with the compression codec of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264. When the shooting is completed, you may find you may often come the need to compress XF400/XF405 4K to 1080p for the following reasons:
– The 4K video is too large in size and will occupy a lot of space of your computer hard drive or device internal memory
– The processor of most portable devices such as smartphone, tablets is not powerful enough to decode 4K video, you may get a stutter or lagging 4K video playback experience on that device
– Unable to import and edit 4K video smoothly with some video editing software due to the poor processor of your computer
– It takes a long time to upload and share 4K video on popular video sharing sites due to the large file size
How to downscale Canon XF400/XF405 4K to 1080p?
To complete the job, what you need is simply a 4K Video Compressor. Here, we highly recommend you to download our best Video Compression software – Pavtube Video Converter. The program has perfect importing support for the 4K H.264 MP4 video shot with Canon XF400/XF405. Thanks for its batch conversion mode, you can load multiple 4K video into the application for conversion at one time. To compress 4K to 1080p, what you need to do is simply changing the output file resolution to “1980*1020” or “1080*720” in the program’s “Profile Settings” window. You can also choose other smaller file resolution according to your own needs.
Trim/Split Canon XF400/XF405 4K video into smaller
For those people who don’t want to suffer any quality loss, you can compress Canon XF400/XF405 into smaller with the trimming or splitting function offered by the application. You can trim or cut the footage to remove the unwanted parts by settings the start time and ending time, split the large video into smaller parts by file size, count or length.
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Step by Step to Compress Canon XF400/XF405 4K to 1080p
Step 1: Import Canon XF400/XF405 4K videos.
From “File” drop-down option, select “add Video/Audio”to add Canon XF400/XF405 4K H.264 MP4 video files into the program.
Step 2: Choose output file format.
From “Format” bar drop-down list, here, you can choose to compress XF400/XF405 4K to 1080p by outputting a more compatible HD file formats by outputting “H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)” under “HD Video” main category.
Step 3: Downscale 4K to 1080p.
Click “Settings” on the main interface to open “Profile Settings” window, in video section, from “Size(pix)” drop-down list, select “1980*1020” or “1080*720” to compress 4K to 1080p.
Step 4: Start the conversion process.
After all setting is over, go back to the main interface and hit right-bottom “Convert” button to start to convert and compress Canon XF400/XF405 4K H.264 to HD H.264 process.
When the conversion is completed, you can then smoothly play, edit and share Canon XF400/XF405 video with ease.