today I have some exciting news for the Adobe Premiere editors Adobe Premiere
Pro CC version 12.1.1 just release with some major features that will
benefit 360VR production now Premiere finally support natively HTC Vive Pro the
VR headset that I don't have
premiere will help with 360VR video playback in h.264 or
h.265 with the brand new hardware accelerated h.264 or HEVC decoding it's
not a perfect companion for the new Insta360 Pro no stitch plugin
as you all know most of the VR camera only gives you a h.264 output and
it has been a challenge on playback on set with the MacBook Pro please make
sure that update your Mac to the latest iOS to enjoy this new improvement but
the best feature of all the feature I have been tested in the past couple
weeks in the Adobe Premiere pre-release program is the direct 8K render and
output without any third-party plug-in or ffmpeg with blazing speed
he supports up to 480 megabyte per second the perfect for high 8K players
like this Visbit which also support High bitrate playback
let me do some benchmarking rendering test in both h.264 and h.265 for
you in a new 8K rendering tutorial with this new feature
hey what's up everybody is your Boy Hugh here from CreatorUp now we are in premiere I'm
in the newest version of 12.1.2 here I have a clip of me
flying a Drone which is the m600 with the Insta360 Pro in 8K with the
MOZA gimbal air stabilizers so the footage looks really smooth as you see
right here which is actually very smooth I enjoy using a physical Gimbal when
possible on Drone or any footage because I still love movement offers physical
Gimbal software stabilization is great like mocha VR but still does not have
this realism and it's too sometimes too stable so with a little bit movements
actually look good but again we are not talking about drone or stabilization
we're talking about how to render 8K stereo or mono video from the
brand new Adobe Premiere Pro update so I just cut the first 5 second clip as a
benchmark I wanted to show you this sequence this footage is shot at Insta360
pro is in 8K mono and also in 60 frames per second so if you're
wondering how you can capture 60 frames per second 8K with the Insta360
Pro I actually capture that in 30 frames per second and render using
the Insta360 Pro Stitcher in the stitcher it allows using the optical
flow increased frame rate feature can outputs 60 frame per second and I
found out with movement have such a dramatic moment like
this if you actually play the footage
have a smooth playback but as you see the Drone is moving very very fast on this
footage so if you just show it in 30 frames per second on a VR headset
might not be ideal so I actually want to output this a 60 frame so we have a
smoother playback on of your headset it's one thing that you can do only with the
Insta360 Pro one of the feature to film this camera so even in
my own workflow with aftercodecs 60 frames per second 8K is pretty
challenging so let's see if premiere new feature can stand up with the output so
5 second clip let's go ahead and hit export media so in here I'll go ahead
and pick H.264 go ahead and hit match source so we have 8K render
also 60 frames as you see the outputs or is 8K with 60
frames per second output and then right here
that is the other crazy part so the target bitrate you can go all the way up
to 480 megabyte per second if you have a crazy movements in action like this one
it's moving this really fast you wanna have a higher bitrate again that is
overkill even for 8K especially 8K mono so I think is about I would say usually
I think 200 should be alright but since we're gonna demo this on Visbit so
just go ahead and go crazy Let's goes 300
so the quality should be really good with even such a fast moving shot and
then again the video is VR as mono with this feature the codec is
already embedded into the video so you can upload on youtube and it will work
there's no extra embed code I like what you do with after codecs I can open a
timer right here so actually see how much time it take to render 5 seconds
with this brand new update so go ahead and hit explore start a timer
okay that's done so for five second 8k 60 frames-per-second footage in the
h.264 in 300 megabyte per second it takes only 57 seconds to finish let's actually
do the same thing but with AfterCodec this time which is mine oldl rendering
workflow I'm gonna use mp4 and go ahead and open up the AfterCodec setting you're
gonna use the x264 and then bitrate we're gonna use so everything we can let
us do again go ahead make sure timer is ready go ahead okay right here so bring
up the timer let's go ahead and export
so now we actually pass one minute oh it just stopped so we've AfterCodec
with the same render setting it took after AfterCodec a minute six seconds compared to
Premiere only take 50 seconds and now let's take a look at the other render they set
h.264 you can actually also do HEVC which is h.265 render and as you see if
you hit match source also go up to 8K mono and the
target bit way unfortunately it maxed out in a hundred twenty megabite per
second come back to the old version of premiere which is maximum 60 megabits per
second but let's see how fast the rendering right now
okay just finish is almost take two minutes and 30 seconds for my machine to
render so that is that 1.5 slower that just the native h.264
rendered let's do the final test and test in after codecs see how long it
takes to render h.265 so with after codec with x265 you can actually set
that megabyte per second past 200 so if you wanna have a high bitrate video with
a h.265 then right now this still the only option is using AfterCodec
so go ahead okay
okay as you see the AfterCodec is slightly faster than the
premier and is about like 20 second faster but
premium render even bigger file I'd like 8K stereo so let's go ahead and
import 8K stereo file so here we have a stereoscopic footage of a
breakdancing music video I did shot with Kandao obsidian as you see is a 8K x 8k
and 30 frames per seconds so right here I can up the framerate to just 60 frames
per second just for testing and I also gonna up the frame the sequence size to
a 8192 is actually the true 8K size so that is the max 8K if you
want to render 8K so go ahead set the frame side and just scale this up to
fill the entire frame so now go ahead I pick 5 seconds
so in h.264 in their brand-new Premiere and go ahead and hit match source so
it's 8K x 8K 60 frames per second so that is the input that is the output
and then right here as you see in stereoscopic your output can actually go
all the way to 2,000 megabit per second that is insane absolutely we definitely
don't need that so I think 400 in here should be good enough because stereo is
60 frame and even that would be overkill for VISBIT but I will just go ahead