Hey. My name is Matt Johnson, and today I want to show you how to export extremely
high quality 4K videos for YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, etc.
using Adobe Premiere Pro and to save you time.
I've actually created
a set of free export presets that you can download at the link below
and give you all of these high quality 4K export settings immediately
without you needing to dial everything in manually.
They even come with instructions showing you how to import them into Premiere Pro.
So go download them for free. Down below.
Moving on, let's open up Premiere Pro now.
And as you can see, I have already created a project with a 4K 24 frames
per second video clip that I've imported and edited on the timeline.
And let's pretend that this is a full video
that I've already edited and I'm ready to export.
Once you reach this point, you can either press control Im on PC or command
Im on a Mac or you can go up here to this new export tab
that was added in the 2022 version of Premiere Pro.
If you do not see this export tab, that means you're probably on
an earlier version of Premier and your export setup will look different
than how it looks here.
But the good news is for I actually have another video
that you can watch for exporting in the previous version of Prior Pro
and I will link to that video in the corner and down in the video
description if you want to watch that with the export settings open now,
make sure that next to media file this little blue toggle is enabled.
And then on the right you can name your video file.
Let's call this my 4K video and then click on location
and select where you want to save your video file too.
This is very important because if you do not choose a location,
then you're not going to know where you're entered video file is going to end up.
So definitely make sure that you choose a place
you will remember and you will be able to find with that done next, go down here
to a preset and you're going to want to select
the high quality 2160 4K preset
and then here for format, instead of leaving it set to H2 64,
you might want to click this dropdown and select achieve S.h Dot to 65
because this is the newest video
format that's going to give you the highest video quality at this point.
You're probably thinking this is great matte.
Now I just got on here
and hit export in the bottom right corner and I'm ready to go.
No, because remember, I told you at the start of this video
that I want to give you the best possible export settings
and by default, Adobe is not going to give you the best.
So this means that we're going to need to dig into these video settings.
Now, I already have the video tab open here, but if yours looks like this, click
on this video tab and then you're going to see all the settings like I have.
Hold on to your beard for a bit.
Things are going to get a bit complicated, but trust me, this is really important
and I'm going to walk you through it all and make it easy.
Starting off for frame size, you're going to want to make sure that you
didn't 3840 by 2160 is selected.
If your settings are great out here and this is different, you can click
any of these checkboxes to enable you to change these settings for frame rate.
Make sure it's set to 23.9, seven, six and four aspect.
Make sure it's set to square pixels one point.
So next, if you do not see these other settings,
you can click the more button here and that will enable them
and you're going to want to make sure that render maximum depth is checked
and use maximum render quality is checked.
I mean is going to help enhance the quality of your video file.
And you definitely
want the highest quality video, which is why you're watching this video.
Next, under encoding settings for performance,
you're going to want to make sure that hardware encoding is selected
if that is not available and you can only select software encoding, that's OK.
But by selecting hardware
encoding, this is going to enable you to render your videos dramatically faster
because Premiere is going to use you Computer's graphics card.
So I highly recommend having hardware encoding selected
if it is available next for profile, make sure it is set to main.
If you click here, you can see that you also have the option for Maintain,
but maintain requires
you to use a HDR exporting workflow, which is a lot more complicated.
And for 99.9% of people,
you're just going to want to select main and things are going to look great
for level.
Leave it at 5.1,
but four tier, you're going to want to change this from main to high,
which is going to unlock your bit rate so you can export an even higher quality.
Lastly, for HDR graphics, white nets leave this set to 100.
If this is set to something else, set it to 100.
Moving on down to better rate settings.
Now, this is the biggest and most important
setting that is going to affect
the quality of your videos the most when you're exporting
if you want the highest possible video quality for bit rate encoding,
you're going to want to select CBR, which stands for constant bit rate,
which means the premiere is always going to be
telling your video to be as high quality as possible.
If you're uploading to YouTube or another website online and you want to guarantee
the highest possible video quality set your target bit rate to 50.
In the past, if you were using the older H2 six for video codec,
I would have recommended exporting at 100 megabits per second.
But because we are now using the ABC H2 65
codec, it is much more efficient and newer codec,
meaning you can actually export it at half that bit rate by saying it to 50.
This is going to result in a reasonably large video file here.
As you can see under this estimate, the file size section
this is telling me this video clip
is going to be 16 megabytes and it's only a few seconds long.
So you can get an idea of how big this size is going to be.
But trust me, this bigger video size is going to be completely worth it.
If you want the highest quality 4K video whenever you upload YouTube
or anywhere else.
Incidentally, speaking of the highest quality videos on YouTube,
even if you did not film your video in 4K
and you filmed it in ten AP, for example,
I would still recommend using these 4K export settings
for basically everything if you're uploading your video to YouTube.
Because if you upskill your lower resolution video files to 4K
and then upload them to YouTube, YouTube is going to use
a significantly higher bitrate whenever it's playing your video back
and the quality will be dramatically better than if you had uploaded it in HD.
So in short, always uploaded to YouTube in 4K and you could do that
for pretty much any other site, either Facebook or Vimeo, et cetera.
It will pretty much always help you to upload in 4K.
Lastly, keep in mind
that this 50 megabits per second is just the bit rate that I recommend.
If you are exporting at 24 frames per second.
If you are exporting at a higher frame rate of 30 frames per second,
then in that case I would recommend exporting at a higher rate of 60 megabits
per second.
And for 60 footage I would export at 120 megabits per second.
Basically, whatever your frame rate is, your rate should be double that number
and your good shout out to Casey Ferris for that way of thinking about that rates,
it's really easy to remember and I will link to his channel down below with that.
Make sure that your quality highest, slowest is selected
and those are all your video settings.
Next, go down to the audio tab and make sure that for audio format
AC is selected audio codec, AC Sample Rate, 48,000 Hertz
Channel Stereo and Bitrate 320 kilobits per second.
This should already be selected by default, but it doesn't hurt to check
and congratulate
once your video settings are all done and you are about ready to export your video.
But if you want to save time and avoid having to dial
in all these settings in the future, every single time you export a video,
you now have two options.
First, you can download my free presets that will give you all of these settings
that we just covered
enable you to use them as a preset every single time you export your video.
These presets are available for free download at the link down below,
or you can actually create your own preset by saving all the settings
that we just put together as a preset of your own.
To do that, go up here to the preset dropdown menu and click
these three points to the right of it and then click Save Preset and let's
call this H 265 comma 4k,
comma 24, comma 50 MEPs.
Comma, who is Mac?
There we go. And press.
OK then any time you want to export your video
using these settings, you can go to here to this preset dropdown, select
this H 265 etc preset and then go down here and either select
send to Media Encoder or export and your video is done that's it.
Thank you so much for watching this video
all about how to export high quality HD videos in Premiere Pro.
Can I help you out even more though?
I've put together a free guide called Edit Videos Like a pro and
this guy is going to walk you through some of my biggest tips as a video editor.
These things took me years to learn, but you can use this guy
to take a huge shortcut.
You can download the guide completely for free at the link down below.
Thanks so much for watching and have a great day.