- Hey guys, my name is Matt Johnson with whoismatt.com
and today I'm gonna be showing you how to edit
and export 120 frames per second video
using Adobe Premiere Pro.
So, if you were say a gamer that has recorded
a lot of gaming footage at 120 frames per second
and you want to then edit and export that at 120fps,
this tutorial is gonna show you how to do that.
And if you want to save time,
I've actually created a free set of 120 frames per second
export presets for Premiere
that you can download at the link
down in the video description next to the like button.
Now, let's jump into Adobe Premier.
Welcome to Adobe Premiere Pro,
I'm in the default editing tab for Premiere,
so this should look familiar
and as you can see down here in the corner,
I've actually already imported
some 120 frames per second footage
that I filmed with the Sony A7s III in 4K 120,
it's beautiful.
Now, it's time to go about editing this footage
and traditionally you would do that
by creating a new sequence,
either by pressing control in on PC or command in on Mac
or going up to file new sequence.
This opens up the new sequence dialog box
but as you're digging through these sequences here
you're gonna see, wait a second,
there's no 120 frames per second option
and even if I select one of these presets
and I go to settings, timebase,
you'll see that Premier maxes out at 60 frames per second.
Regardless of which preset you choose
you cannot set a frame rate higher
than 60 frames per second for a sequence.
Help me, Matt, how do I fix this?
How do I edit this 120fps footage?
I gotta work around for you, canceling out of this,
here's the workaround and it's surprisingly simple,
instead of going through
and creating a new sequence in Premiere,
simply select your footage,
making sure that it's 120 frames per second clip,
drag it over your timeline here where it says
drop media here to create sequence and voila.
Are you sure these are 120 frames per second Matt?
Check this out, with this panel selected
let's go up here to sequence, sequence settings,
check it out, timebase 119.88 frames per second, 120fps,
we tricked Premier into doing it.
Leave all these settings the same,
hit okay, back to the sequence now,
this is a 120 frames per second sequence
and so you can now edit your video at 120 frames per second.
So, let's pretend that I've already made a video
and edited it at 120 frames per second, time to export,
first let's drag to the beginning of the clip
and press I to tell Premier that's the start
of where we want to be on our export,
then we're gonna drag to the end of the clip here
and if you can't find it, use your arrow keys
until you find the very last frame, press the O key then
and now we have our in and out points set
telling Premier exactly where we want to export.
Next, I'm gonna click control M on PC or command M on Mac
to open up the export settings dialog box
or you can go to file, export, media.
Here in the export settings as you can see
our next roadblock,
because if you normally export in the H.264 format
which is very common
and you select the match source high bit rate preset,
that should copy your sequence settings,
meaning that your video should export
at 120 frames per second.
Well, here's the issue looking down here
you can see it currently says frame rate 60, dang it.
And let's click this check box
so we can modify this frame rate,
still 60, we can't export higher than 60, what do we do?
Ignoring these settings now, we're gonna change all this,
let's go back up here to format and instead of H.264,
we're gonna select HEVC H.265 and check this out,
with match source high bit rate, scrolling down here
frame rate 119.881, 120fps.
Let's go through the rest of these settings now,
for output name, you're gonna wanna click on this
and you're going to want to select,
where you want to save your video,
make sure you know where you saved your video,
otherwise you're not gonna be able to find it
and you'll be leaving me confused comments
like some people do.
This was like a good place to me, so I'm gonna hit save
and then here, you'll see
I have export video and export audio checked,
that's important if you want those two things.
And now let's go down to the video tab,
my width and height the 3840 by 2160,
if your video footage is smaller say 1920 by 1080,
you can hit this checkbox
and then you can change these numbers if you need to.
I'm gonna leave this as it is though,
make sure that you do check render at maximum depth
which is gonna help out your video quality.
Moving on down here to encoding settings,
I have hardware encoding enabled,
but if you only have software encoding, that's okay too,
it's really gonna depend on your graphics card
if this is available or not,
if you can do hardware encoding, do that.
Now, down here under tier, this is important,
you're gonna wanna switch it from main to high
and that's gonna enable us
to make some changes here in a second.
Scrolling down, you can ignore all this,
let's go down here to bit rate settings
and because this is a 4k at 120 frames per second video clip
that was recorded at 280 megabits per second,
with the A7s III, I want to make sure that this video clip
that I'm exporting has a high bit rate as well.
My recommendation to you is to select CBR
and for your target bit rates, I have two options for you,
if you are exporting
a 4k at 120 frames per second video clip
which is very high resolution, very high quality,
I would set your target bit rate to 100 megabits per second.
That's gonna be high but not super high,
it should still look really good
as far as your video quality goes.
No need to crank it all the way up to 240,
we don't need to go that crazy, 100 is fine.
If you do see some image quality loss and artifacting,
don't be afraid to raise this higher though.
Now, alternatively, if you are exporting
a 1080P at 120 frames per second video clip,
I don't think it needs to be this high,
I think you could get by with 60 megabits per second.
So, choose that depending on your footage resolution.
With a hundred selected because I'm exporting in 4k,
I'm gonna go down here and make sure
I check the use maximum render quality box
and let's go up here to the audio tab,
audio is very important.
For audio I wanna select AAC,
48,000 Hertz stereo audio quality high
bit rate 320 with a precedence for bit rate.
Now, let's save these export settings as a preset,
so you don't have to dig through all these settings again
whenever you wanna export
120 frames per second video again.
So, up here next to preset,
I'm gonna click this down arrow here
and then let's call this 3040X2160 109.88fps whoismatt.
Here we go and let's click okay.
You'll see here now, that this preset is saved
under the H.265 format,
so anytime you need to access it again,
you can click the preset right there
or if you downloaded my free presets and installed them
these presets already there.
Lastly, we need to go down and export the video,
you can either click export to begin rendering the video
immediately in Premiere, or you can click Q,
which will open up Adobe Media Encoder
and begin exporting it from there,
so, that way you can continue to edit
in Adobe Premiere while your video exports.
I'm gonna click queue
and then I'm gonna click the green button
to start rendering.
And here is the finished video file,
added a little bit of color correction,
but it is playing back at normal speed.
Unfortunately, I actually exported this video on YouTube
at 24fps, so you can't see how smooth it is but trust me,
it's real smooth.
With that, thank you so much for watching this video
all about how to edit and export your footage
at 120 frames per second in Adobe Premiere Pro.
I have many more tutorials about Adobe Premiere Pro,
that I'll be sure to link to
down in the video description as a playlist,
if you wanna check them out.
It would also be a huge help to me,
if you would consider subscribing,
if you wanna see more Premiere Pro videos in the future.
Thanks so much for watching and have a great day.