Welcome back to another session in Adobe Premiere Pro. Now I want you to get the
best out of Adobe Premiere and one of the areas which can be really
overwhelming is the 'Export Settings' so I'm going to show you the best export
settings for YouTube videos to make the whole process less scary and much easier.
So let's see how it's done. Ok so we have an edit together and we want to
export but before we jump in it is important to take note of what is
highlighted in your interface. You'll notice that if you have another window
selected which you can see indicated by these blue borders around panels and if
we try to render the video we don't even have the option as it's grayed out or just
won't work, so make sure that you have your timeline sequence selected. Now
there are two ways that we can export the video, the long way or the smart way!
To do it the long way we need to go up to 'file' scroll down this list and go to
'export media' and click that, now I know it doesn't sound like that much work but
trust me going through all of those menus all of the time all of those
seconds can really add up into minutes and then over the year that's hours.
Remember, when you're editing time is money. The smart way is to do it
instantly, all we need to do is hit 'CMD + M' if you're on a Mac or 'CTRL + M'
if you're on a PC. Ok so this is your export window and it might look a little
bit scary but don't worry we're going to show you how to use a preset so it does
most of the work for you. Over here we have our file format and as
you can see there are a lot of options we're only interested in using the H.264
format since it's a nice small file format and keeps a lot of the video
quality, so select that. Underneath you have this preset drop-down menu which
has a bunch of options that will automatically adjust most of your
settings to what you need. If you scroll down the list you can see we have
YouTube 1080p and YouTube 4k. In our example we're just using 1080p but if
you're using 4k then just select that. Now this preset gets us 90% of the way
there! See, not so scary now you want to give your video a name and a destination
for it to export to. So click on this blue file name and give it any name you
want and then select a folder where you want
to save it and click 'Save'. You want to tick this render at maximum depth the
checkbox to ensure you get the best quality possible from your video in the
bitrate settings you have three options CBR VBR one pass and VBR 2 pass CBR will
give you the highest possible quality but we wouldn't recommend that
it makes your file size absolutely huge and will take a very long time to upload
to YouTube for our videos we're using vbr 2 pass which is just a clever
setting that retains the quality for your video and keeps your file size
fairly small making it much faster to upload to YouTube now you have these two
sliders show up underneath you'll want to change these depending on the
resolution you're exporting in now there's something to bear in mind here
YouTube is going to compress the video quality and we will get a little loss in
some of the detail so for 1080p video we're going to input a value of 30 in
the minimum and 40 in the maximum if you're using 4k you may want to set the
minimum to around 40 and the maximum to around 60 this is actually much higher
than we need for YouTube I always think it's a top tip to export in a higher
quality than you need for YouTube because YouTube actually adds some
compression and it can remove some of the quality from your video so if you
export in a higher quality you retain some of that quality you're going to
lose along the way there's no guarantee that this makes a big difference but
it's better to be on the safe side now all that's out of the way all we have to
do is check use maximum render quality you can go and tweak your audio settings
up in this tab if you want to but our YouTube preset does the work for us so
you can leave this at the default we just wanted you to know that there is a
window to tweak the audio should you need to but everything is fine and now
we can just hit export and that's it so I hope you've enjoyed this video and I
hope it's really helping you in Adobe Premiere remember if you want to see
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