1080p editing on 4k monitor???

[BadBoYeed]

Building my first pc and have a question.  I plan on building a 4k capable rig, mainly for video editing and some gaming. (Ryzen 1800x and strix gtx 1080)

 

However, I don't have a 4k camera yet.  (Plan on upgrading to that at some point).  My question is, how will my current 1080p footage look on a 4k monitor editing in Adobe premiere?  (Upscaling issues???)

 

Should I just get a 1080p monitor and upgrade to a  4k one when I get the 4k camera?   Would 1440p monitor do anything?  

Would appreciate some help!!!

[FloRolf]

a native 1080p image will take 1/4th of your 4k display.

[MVPernula]

You'll be fine, like clicking and dragging a 800x400 picture on a 1080p display it gets "worse" quality.

Most likely you wont get bothered by it.

Usually when editing video you don't see the video in it's full resolution anyways, you usually see a small preview for it in a smaller window.

[pentotark]

In my opinion it depends what kind of editing you're doing. If you do everything in premiere, including post and color grading, than you need the best possible screen in terms of color and work area. In that case you could benefit from a 4k monitor especially if you are thinking of upgrading the format of your videos to 4k soon. Working with 1080p content on a 4k monitor is not a problem, there is no upscaling issue whatsoever.

 

If post and color is not important for your editing and you are planning on upgrading to 4k in a year or two, then you might consider 2 cheap but decent 1080p monitors, one for the timeline and libraries/settings and one for previews.