4k Footage in a 1080 sequence

Hello together,
I'm having a new problem in my 1080 sequence. I edited some 4-k-footage in in and scaled it to 50 percent to keep the original framing. When I click on that part in the timeline it looks fine. But when I playback it seems to ignore to resize effect and plays back the zoomed in framing.
I am sure that this is only a small problem, but since I'm new to Premiere, I can't seen to find a solution.
Thanks for your help
Greetings from Germany
Pat

Hi Drking2020,
I see you have seen this forum post: Re: 4k Playback in 1080p Sequence - Zoom out in 1/2 resolution
Try those things that Mark Mapes mentioned, such as changing the playback resolution.
Thanks,
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