Taking 4K or recording 4K video is more and more popular which is the 4 times HD video, brings us the high video quality. How to deal with the 4K video? Uploading video to some video share websites is the best option. Like the Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. As the first video sharing site to support high-definition video, Vimeo is a wonderful place to share video with friends around the world. From the Vimeo forum, many users can't upload the 4K video to Vimeo, what's happening? How to solve? We will tell you the details and take you to find the solut6ion one by one.
Solutions for Uploading 4K video to Vimeo
First, you need to know the Vimeo supported video parameters, we just do the summary for you, details are below, don't be panic, you can check whether your 4K video is match with Vimeo or not.
| Parameters | Resolution | Frame Rate | Aspect Ratio | Bitrate | Best Video Format | Video Size |
| Vimeo | 4K, 2K, 1080p, 720p, SD |
<60fps | 16:9 | 1 Mbps-12 Mbps(base on different resolution) | H.264, Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) | <5GB |
Before we start the main body, we need one tool which is very important for Vimeo, can br the bridge between 4K and Vimeo: Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate which is a professional 4K video converter and perfect video editor. You will use it to convert 4K video, adjust the 4K video or edit the 4K video for Vimeo. How powerful? You can keep reading and know this video converter better.
Solution 1: 4K video formats are compatible with Vimeo?
Vimeo supports the H.264 video best, your video is the 4K H.264 video? Not? No problem, you can use this video converter and convert the 4K video to H.264 video, just 3 clicks, you can realize this goal
Click 1. Open this software and click File to add the 4K video, you also can drag the 4K video to this software directly.
Click 2. Click Format and choose H.264 High Profile video (.*mp4) from Common Video, also can choose H.265 HD video (.*mp4) or H.264 HD video (.*mov) from HD video.
Click 3. Click Setting and adjust the video resolution, adjust it to 4096 × 2048, 3840 × 2160 or 4096 × 2160. Then click Convert button to start the 4K video conversion. You can upscale HD video to 4K video too.
Solution 2: 4K video parameters are compatible with Vimeo?
Your 4K video codec is not compatible with Vimeo? 4K audio codec is not acceptable by Vimdeo? 4K video frame is too bigger? All these issues can be solved at here, you just need to import the 4K video and adjust the 4K video parameters, like these:
Click 1. Open this software and click File to add the 4K video, you also can drag the 4K video to this software directly.
Click 2. Click Format and choose H.264 High Profile video (.*mp4) from Common Video, also can choose H.265 HD video (.*mp4) or H.264 HD video (.*mov) from HD video.
Click 3. Click Setting and adjust the video parameters for Vimeo: video codec, audio codec, video frame, video bitrate, audio channels, etc. You can compress 4K video to HD video effortlessly too.
For some Vimeo beginner, you may don't know these video paraneters well, we do the table for you, you can refer to them and adjust the video parameters.
| Video codec | Audio Codes | Audio Channels | Audio Data rate | Sample rate |
| High Profile H.264 codec | AAC-LC codec. | Stereo | 320 kbit/s | 48 kHz |
| Video Frame | Resolution | |||
| 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30,50, 59.94, 60 | Standard Definition (SD) 4:3 aspect ratio 640 × 480 |
Standard Definition (SD) 16:9 aspect ratio 640 × 360 |
720p HD 16:9 aspect ratio 1280 × 720 |
1080p HD 16:9 aspect ratio 1920 × 1080 |
| 2K 16:9 aspect ratio 2560 × 1440 |
4K UHD 16:9 aspect ratio 3840 × 2160c |
DCI 4K UHD 17:9 aspect ratio 4096 × 2160 |
4K Monoscopic 360 2:1 aspect ratio 4096 × 2048 |
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Solution 3: 4K video size is compatible with Vimeo?
After the video formats and video paremeters are common, you still fail to upload the 4K video to Vimeo, maybe you need to check the 4K video size, most of 4K video is bigger due to the high video resolution. You can split the video into some clips, or you can cut the video into some clips for small video size. With the built-in video editor, you also can change the video aspect ratio: 16:10, 16:9, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2, and 2:1 are all here. Best of all, you can edit the 4K video for fun, for example: You can add subtitles to video, add watermark to video, add text to video, change the music form the video, etc.
Split video: 
Adjust Aspect Ratio: 
Conclusion: Do you know how to up,load the 4K video to Vimeo now? I believe you have mastered above skills which are really to use. Hope you can enjoy the 4K video upload experience.
