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Hey everybody, welcome into this Adobe Premiere Pro tutorial,
brought to you by tutvid.com; where today, I'm going to help you learn
a little bit about exporting HD video for YouTube. Some of the stuff I do,
and some of the stuff YouTube recommends you do. Just to help you get
a better understanding of how you can better looking, higher quality video
up on YouTube, without degradation of quality; because nobody likes
degradation of quality. Now, one quick thing before we get into this... if
you don't use Premiere, these settings still stand true across all the video
editors that are out there. You can use the settings, and go ahead and
export your video, and get great, high quality video for YouTube in no
time flat. So, let's jump into Premiere right now, and check this thing out.
Alright, well here we are in Adobe Premiere Pro. Let's take a look at some
export settings, and how I export my video. Now, before we get into
export settings, I just want to mention a couple things. If you just have
really bad quality video, or video that's blurry, or you know, just not the
greatest video, exporting using the best export settings in the world is
not going to make bad video look good. It's just going to preserve really
nice video that you've already shot, and allow it to continue looking great
when you upload and share it with your friends, or share it with the
world, or whatever project it is that you are working on. So, that's first
and foremost. And secondly, this tutorial is going to assume that you
understand things like basic framerates, 29.97, 23.976, 24 frames, 30 frames
per second, 60 frames per second, you name it. Just have a basic
understanding of what your footage has been shot in. Also, that you're
working with footage that is at least 1920x1080. This, after all, is just a
tutorial on exporting standard 1080p HD footage for YouTube. So, with
all that out of the way, how do I export footage for YouTube? Well, the
first thing I like to do is set an in and an out point. So, move your playhead
in Premiere to where you want your video to begin. Hit the letter 'i,' and
that's going to set an in point, and then move all the way to the very end
and hit 'o.' The nice thing about setting an in and out point, is you only
select part of your timeline. That seems very obvious, right? But the nice
thing about this is, sometimes there's extra video assets - clips and
things - that get congested at the back end of your timeline. Well, in order
to avoid exporting them too, and having big areas of black, and then
random, sporadic bits of video and audio, and whatever you have back
there, is just carve out the chunk that you want to export using in and out;
and it's so fast and easy, once you start doing it, it's like a peace of mind
thing, where I know that only this is getting exported. This is the section
on my timeline that I've approved for export, and that's all that's going to
get sent out to the world. Then, I would go File>Export>Media.
Now, here in the export settings the very first thing I like to make sure
I have downpat, is my source range down here. I make sure this is set to
sequence in/out. That way we actually utilize those in and out points
that we created, not the entire sequence. Sequence in/out is the way to go.
Up in here we have the ability to change the overall format, and then
choose a preset if we like. And in fact, if you're in Premiere Pro, there is
a great YouTube 1080p HD preset, which, if that's all you're interested in,
and you don't care about any of the technical details, I would recommend
just roll with that. Go with it right now. Export. Your video is going to be
just fine. If you're interested in knowing why and what we're doing, stick
around, because that's what we're going to cover. So, here in this dialogue
box, we have effects. Which I've never used. I've never used it for a single
video project, ever, in the time I've used Premiere. Video and audio tabs
which I use all the time, and the captions tab which I sometimes use if
I'm working with captions. Publish, I never use that. Multiplexer, and I
don't mess around with that either. So, here under video, we have our
basic video settings where we, right now, have match source selected;
and what that's going to do, is take the size of your sequence, which
we looked at before, it was 1920x1080, and it's going to use that. You
could uncheck this, and dial in an exact size, if you had something
specific in mind. Your frame rate, which, of course, we always want
to copy what we've got. Progressive field order, and the aspect is just
square pixels 1.0. NTSC, you could choose to render a maximum
depth, as well. I'm going to leave that unchecked for now. And as we
scroll down, we get to our bit rate settings. And here I can see, that the
bit rate and coding is CBR, which stands for constant bit rate. But we
have the options of VBR 1 pass, and VBR 2 pass, which we're going to
talk about in a second. But those are basically your settings. We're
not messing with VR, and we don't need to worry about keyframe
distance in this case. One of the things that I do want to point out,
that's important, is number one, you can click on the output name.
You can change the of your file that's exporting. Which is great.
And choose where on your hard drive you want it to be saved; and
also make sure you check, yeah, export video, and export audio.
There have been times where I've forgotten to check those ones. Now,
by default, if you leave them checked on all the time, they're going to
be checked on. But just know, if funny business is happening, make
sure that those are checked on, because sometimes it can be very
frustrating wondering why audio is not appearing; and, lo and behold,
you've forgotten to check on export audio, or something dumb like that.
Back to the video tab here. So, down here with bit rate settings, what
better to place to learn about the bit rate settings that work with YouTube,
than going straight to the source and seeing what Google specifically
recommends that creators use when they're uploading their videos to
YouTube? And here we have it: recommended upload and coding
settings. A container mp4, which we're using. Audio codac AAC, we
haven't really talked about audio yet. Video codac H.264, we can see
there, yeah we chose H.264. That's great. Here frame rate, and
basically this is just whatever your project is. You know, anywhere
from 24 to 60 frames per second, that works. That's great. That's cool.
It talks a little bit about deinterlaced footage, and progressive, and if
you're interested in learning about that, you can find tutorials and
articles about that, as well. We're not really talking about that here in this
video. What I'm most interested in is the bit rate here. So, the bit rate
is going to affect the quality of each and every individual second of your
footage. I'm interested here in the 1080p standard HD, and it says, look,
up to 30 frames per second, 24-30 frames per second, go with 8 megabits
per second. You'll be cool. 48-60 frames per second, hey! bump it up
to 12 megabits per second, life's good. We're not messing around with
HDR, so we don't need to worry about that right now. Now, I'm a little -
I don't know if I'm conspiratorial, I like to think that if I upload slightly
higher quality than what they're recommending, my videos end up
a little bit better. I don't know, YouTube or Google, of course they'd
never come out and say anything like that, but I usually look at this
number, 8 megabits per second, and say, you know what? I'm going
to double that. So, up to 30 frames per second, I actually go 16 megabits
per second, and up to 60 frames per second, I go 24 megabits per
second. So, over here, I would say, look 16 megabits per second. Now,
the problem is, I don't really like to use constant bit rate. I like to use
VBR, which is variable bit rate. Now, there's VBR 1 pass, and VBR 2 pass.
I like to go with VBR 1 pass almost always, because it exports faster.
VBR 2 pass does a full second pass, which takes twice as long to export.
Nothing wrong with it if you can wait the time. But I know a lot of people,
you want to get the video out, and move on with life. The way VBR
works, is it analyzes your video. And it says, hey, we have a very simple
scene here, maybe the camera is locked down on a tripod, just with a
still shot of a room, nothing is moving. Or, maybe there's not much
movement. This is a scene that doesn't need a lot of data, so we can
really compress this scene, and we're not going to lose a lot of detail,
you're not going to get a lot of artifacting or fragmentation of edges,
things like that, because stuff isn't changing frame to frame, second to
second. So, we can really cut out the amount of data that's being poured
into this, and cut down on file size. And then it can analyze a much more
detailed scene. Maybe something where there's a lot of trees blowing
in the wind. There's a lot of fine edged detail that's changing frame to
frame to frame, and it can say, yeah, we need to pour more data into
this. Preserve as much of that detail and information as we can. So, I
like to go with VBR, and here's where I would say, look, target bit rate,
keep me right around 16 megabits per second. So, of course, some
scenes might be able to go lower than that. Some might shift a slight
bit higher than that. But 16 megabits is the neighborhood in which it's
going to live, and it's a good place to be. And basically, the second pass,
and VBR 2 pass goes over the footage again, and does this even more
effectively. Preserves even more detail in your video. So, that's pretty
much it. Then I would go, and save the preset, and however you want
to name is fine. I typically like to name for what I'm using it for. So, this
would be YouTube 1080p upload. Some people like to use the stats,
you know? This is a .264, it's VBR 1, it's 16 mps, and just pour that
information into there. So, there's really no right or wrong way. Use
whatever naming convention you like. Then over here with audio,
yup, we're going with AAC, which is exactly what YouTube recommends
in the audio section here. And sample rate of 48,000Hz, I've got
stereo, audio quality, of course, just roll with high, cause why not? And
then the bit rate, I generally just push this as high as it'll let me go. 320?
320 it is, and then I'm just going to keep this set to bit rate down here.
I don't mess with that. And that's it. That's really what I do, and then
I go ahead and save it, and then I hit the export button, boom! and
I'm ready to go. Now, one of the cool things about exporting from
Premiere, is once you've got your stuff set up, maybe you created two
YouTube videos. You can hit the queue button, and that's going to send
your video over the Adobe media encoder to be exported there, and
what you can do is queue up multiple videos in Adobe media encoder.
It's going to take the settings where you're saving them on your hard
drive, and the actual video settings themselves here, right? All of this
stuff. It's going to take all of that and leave it, and rest it here in Adobe
media encoder, and lock it in for you. And you could stack up 20 videos
in here, whatever you wanted, and hit the little play button, and it'll
export them all. Meanwhile, you could go back to Premiere Pro, and
continue working on that, or another video project. So, it's a really, really
cool way to work with the exporter here in Adobe Premiere Pro. Now,
just for fun, before we go, let's take a look at a few video files that I've
exported at a few different qualities, and see the difference. So, I've
got a few. I've got one here, VBR 1 pass at three megabits per second.
I've got VBR 2 pass at 16-32 - with two pass, you have two options for
setting your megabit per second count - constant bit rate at one megabit
per second. You can see, that's a tiny file. Three megabytes! And then all
the way up to constant bit rate at 32 megabits per second. So, let's look
first. Let's go with the biggest file, this constant bit rate. You can see, 81
megabytes for 22 seconds of footage. And if we play through it, it's
practically as exactly high quality as the footage I had in Premiere was.
In fact, any over sharpened edges, that was in the video that I was using.
That's not a side effect of this video exporting. So, this looks great like
this. There's plenty of sharp edges and detail. Let's go back, and see the
difference between 32 megabits per second, and one megabit per second
is. So, I'm just going to zoom back, and let's try to find maybe about the
same frame here. So, we were getting ready to zoom over this building
here. And we can see, there's a massive difference when all of this
information is moving. You can hardly make out any of detail in the
ground. You've got all kinds of artifacting falling apart. I mean, look at
the side of the building here where the sun is lighting it; and then
go to the higher quality one where the sun in lighting it. There's a ton
more detail. So, there's definitely a huge difference. But that's not
really helping us. Let's look at VBR 1 pass, where we triple the data
rate from the one megabit per second to three. So we can do this,
and we can see, still, there's a lot of fragmenting and artifacting here
in the foreground. Let me zoom this back one. Let's go up to the
VBR 1 pass 16 megabit per second, which is the one that I recommended.
Now, a couple things, really, really quick. This is five times bigger than
three megabits. So, you're going to have to live with a larger file size.
But you're still only half the file size of that constant bit rate at 32
megabits per second. So, interesting to note, fun to look at. I'm going
to move this over. I'm going to try to find about the same exact
frame. Right about there. So, you can see here, the difference is pretty
immense. I mean, we can see here with this building in the foreground
with these plants, or whatever, on the roof, a nice, relatively sharp image,
and then over here, it's just a blurry mess. Right? It's not that great.
So, it does make a big difference. But you can see here, with the 16
megabits per second, it's a nice quality. It looks good. It looks sharp,
and it looks like the way you would want it to look when you're
uploading your videos to YouTube. So yeah, there you have it. That's
how I like to export HD video from Premiere for YouTube. We didn't
get into 4K or anything like that; but if you're interested in me
making a tutorial on 4K, feel free to leave a comment down below,
and I'll see what I can do. If you did enjoy this video, guys, make sure
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Nathaniel Dodson, tutvid.com, I'll catch you in the next one!