- [Voiceover] Hey everybody.
This is is Roberto Blake of RobertoBlake.com
helping you create something awesome today.
So today, we're gonna do an Adobe Premiere Pro tutorial,
and we're gonna learn how to export HD video for YouTube
using Adobe Premiere Pro.
Now, I'm gonna be using Adobe Premiere CC 2014,
I do have CC 2015 on my other machine,
but there's not any real significant difference.
In fact, even if you're using Adobe Premiere Pro CS6,
this tutorial will still work for you
because none of the features for exporting video
have changed.
So we're gonna go up to File and Export Media
here in the menu, and you can use command-M,
control-M if you're on Windows,
to do that as a shortcut.
And what that will do is it'll take your work here,
as long as the timeline is selected,
and everything that you had will be here to export.
Now, you could trim this down if you knew where the end was
and you wanted to do that, and you just had
something that went over, you could trim this down.
But I recommend just exporting your entire timeline,
because you've already done your trimming and your editing.
So you'll want to leave that alone for the most part.
Now, the other thing here is the format.
H264 is what YouTube wants to use as the encoding format.
In most cases, if you're using an HD video camera,
like a DSLR, that'll also be the encoding format
that your camera is using.
Now, it might be exporting a .mov file, or a movie file.
You're gonna want to upload an mp4 to YouTube.
So we're already set up for that,
and these are some custom settings that I have.
But what we're gonna do is we're gonna use the preset
that Adobe Premiere has for YouTube,
and we already know that this is 1080p HD video,
so that's what we're gonna select.
Now, if you have 720p video, you would select that,
if you were shooting like 60 frames a second 720p
in an older DSLR camera for some reason,
that's what you would do.
If you wanted to downsample from 1080p to 720p,
you can, but you can't upsample to something like 4k.
It's just not gonna work out that way.
So those are the things you're gonna want to do.
The next thing is we need to pick an output name
for our video.
I'm going to just call this Export.
Well actually, we're gonna call it PremiereProExport,
we're gonna be specific.
So we're calling this PremiereProExport
and I'm putting it in my Tutorials folder.
And that's just how we're gonna do it.
I want you to pay close attention to the summary here.
I always toggle this down for a reason.
Because I like seeing that my settings for my source
and my output are matching.
You can see that the framerates and everything else
for these are matching up perfectly.
You want to make sure that everything here
is syncing up for the most part.
So that's what we want to do.
To keep our video the best possible quality,
we just need to make sure that this is all consistent.
Now down here, you have a lot of panels.
The only one we're really gonna pay attention to
is the video panel.
You don't want to change the audio settings,
these are fine.
The video setting preset from YouTube
is gonna work fine for the most part,
but we're just gonna modify it
to get the best possible quality.
So one thing we're gonna do
is we're gonna check Use Maximum Render Quality,
and then you see the target bitrate here.
Now I'm not getting into any
complicated explanations about what this is,
but this is gonna determine a couple things,
the file size and the quality.
YouTube typically recommends, in their help document,
that you use a target bitrate of eight,
and we're not going to do that, though.
You see that cuts the file size in half,
and if I was on a slower connection, or I,
you know, wasn't worried about having the highest quality,
I would use this.
And this is fine for standard quality
and also if you're in a hurry.
But if you have a better connection
and you want really good quality,
I recommend using 16 as the target bitrate,
and I usually set the maximum bitrate to about 50.
You'll notice that the 50 didn't affect my file size,
and I can move this up and down,
and the file size isn't gonna change.
So I'm just gonna set those to 16 and 50,
and those would be my typical settings.
Now here we have the bitrate encoding.
And it's set to VBR pass one right now.
That's going to mean that it's just going to
just run through this one time.
I usually set it to VBR pass two
if I want it to be the best quality that it can be,
and that's just gonna really help it out.
Now this is gonna make the render time longer,
but it doesn't make the file size any bigger.
So those are settings.
Now, for Multiplexer, you can use that
just to verify that it's gonna be a MP4,
but you can already see that in the output name,
so we're fine there.
We already know that our audio settings are correct,
we're not gonna change any of that.
So we're good here.
Profile, you do want that set to high,
and that's a default setting.
You don't want to change the default setting
of the Level either.
But if you are shooting 4k video,
this number will not be 4.2,
it'll probably 5.1 or 5.2.
So just understand that part of it.
I'm not gonna worry about key framing distance,
I'm not gonna worry about any of this.
You do have an option to input additional metadata
into the video file,
this might help you with video SEO,
some people believe that works,
other people don't believe it works,
I will leave that to you to decide
or I'll do a different video about that.
But you could do that here,
and that may or may not help you.
But it will help you in keeping organized
when you decide to search for this
in something like Adobe Bridge.
So keep that in mind as well.
Now, in another video, I'll talk about
using the Publish setting for logging into YouTube.
The reason that I don't recommend using the setting
is sometimes your internet connection
will interfere with that,
so I usually just go ahead and export the video
to the desktop, and then upload to YouTube from there.
We have two options for that,
we can hit Queue or we can hit Export.
If you hit Export, it will go ahead and do it from here
in Premiere Pro, and a lot of people are doing that.
But if you're like me
and you still need to edit other video files,
or you need to work in Premiere Pro to do something else
like getting your thumbnail image out of a single frame
or what have you,
then you'll want to use Queue
and send it to Adobe Media Encoder.
Once it sends it to Adobe Media Encoder,
that application's gonna launch,
and then we can begin exporting our video
as a background process,
and we'll be able to continue working in Adobe Premiere Pro
on our other projects.
So here in Adobe Media Encoder,
our file is ready to go, and all we have to do is select it
and push this play button.
Now, I've set up a feature where
this will automatically start encoding in two minutes
if I leave it idle and I have files here,
because sometimes I'll walk away
or I'll forget to push the play button,
something like that'll happen.
So I'll just hit play here in Adobe Media Encoder,
and it's gonna start rendering our video.
And based on my high quality settings,
I expect that it's gonna take a while
even though this is a five minute video,
but it will depend on the resources your computer has.
In my case, I have my browser open taking up RAM,
I'm also screen recording right now,
so I don't even have the full resources of my computer
to use for this, and I've set the quality very high
for this video.
So it's going to take a while.
Just depending on how long your video is
and what the quality needs to be,
you can adjust your settings,
and it'll probably render faster.
Also, if you're on a newer computer
with more RAM, I'm only using 12 gigs right now,
and I'm on an older iMac,
if you're on one of the newer machines
with faster processors, better video cards, etcetera,
then it won't necessarily take you as long.
But I'm gonna go ahead and pause this,
since you just have an understanding that
this is saying where the video is going,
we know where our settings are,
and we know how long it's gonna take now.
So that's how we actually export video
for YouTube in HD quality,
and how you want to do that
using Adobe Premiere Pro.
If you have any questions about exporting video
in Adobe Premiere Pro,
please leave them in the comments section,
I'll try and answer as many of them as I can.
I'll also do other videos that talk about
how to use the Publish feature,
and just some different settings
and things you can do in Adobe Premiere Pro.
But this is the basics you need to know
to go ahead and put out a video today
if that's something you've been struggling with
or you didn't know what settings are gonna give you
the best quality for your YouTube videos.
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