4K Video Ultra HD Content: YouTube, Vimeo, and Ways to Create It Using Smartphones and Cameras

We’ve already covered the whole plethora of 4k content sources that give you and your household access to a fairly wide selection of 4K movies, TV shows, documentaries and other professional film studio entertainment content, but what about 4K video clips in general?

Well, there are plenty of those out there too and today we’re going to cover the best sources you can use to get your hands on them, in addition to the content you can find right on this page of 4K.com.

Afterwards, we’ll cover some useful tips for making your own 4K spectacles without spending a fortune to do it.

The World Outside My Window-Time Lapse of Earth from the ISS

https://youtu.be/GOAEIMx39-w

The 4K Content Revolution

First of all however, we should give a rundown of where 4K video content is going.

Currently, the amount of amateur 4K video being created and made public on the web (where it’s exclusively found) is growing at a very rapid pace. This is because the number of devices that let anybody with a minor budget film at least a moderately decent ultra HD video are proliferating left and right in all sorts of varieties. And because people by nature tend to look for the best thing available for their media devices if they can afford it, consumers are buying all these 4K cameras more often than ever.

Thus, if you visit the following sources, you’ll find a remarkable and constantly growing collection of shorter or longer film clips made by not only some very talented amateurs and professionals. Furthermore, a lot of free web-based movies are also being released by various scientific institutions of the exotic places and situations they film. Notable examples of this include videos of volcanic research expeditions filmed with 4K GOPRO Hero cameras and absolutely stunning NASA satellite footage of our planet from orbit, shot with a resolution that lets you appreciate the Earth from space as has never before been possible.

The content landscape for free online 4K movies is getting exciting and from here onwards, it will only improve further until ultra HD saturates the broadband networks with videos that almost completely replace HD and SD resolution shooting.

GoPro HERO4: The Adventure of Life in 4K

https://youtu.be/wTcNtgA6gHs

Some Basic Viewing Requirements

Now, while you obviously do need a 4K screen of some kind to view 4K content, that’s not the only requirement in the deal. However, the good news is that viewing the streaming free content we’re about to describe is also a lot easier than watching professional 4K streams from sources like Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video. With these latter entertainment platforms, you not only need a 4K TV but also a 4K TV that’s fully equipped with features like HDCP 2.2 content protection, HEVC video decoding ability and HDMI 2.0 ports in addition to the requirement of a very strong internet connection of at least 18 to 25 Mbps..

Watching awesome 4K content on the following sources, on the other hand, requires that you only have a 4K monitor, a modern PC capable of supporting 4K video –which is a default if you’ve got the monitor– and an internet connection that can handle at least 15 Mbps. And even this last ultra-high speed connectivity feature isn’t needed for some of the content below, as you’ll see.

Also, if you’re watching YouTube clips, your PC has to support the VP9 codec that Google uses to encode its 4K video streams. Luckily, most newer model brand name PCs already support this but be sure to check before buying one if you’re unsure.

Now, without further ado, let’s get down to content before we move on to making your own movies.

4K Ultra HD Movies And Videos

Thursday 20 October 2016