Today I want to talk to you about how to get a really crisp final product out of Filmora 9
I know some of you have had issues with getting pixelation
or some of your final videos look a little block-ish or blurry
Well there are things that you can do right in your video project settings
and within your export settings
so that your final product leaving Filmora 9 looks as crisp
as the video files that you brought in
Let's dig in!
so you guys probably know one of the things that I love to do is make sure I
white balance everything and use a white card so that I can get my colors correct
in my videos... that's the reason I'm holding that white card up in the first place
I do have videos explaining that and I'll put one of them up in the cards
and down in the description if you want to learn more about that now first off
any footage that you have if you right-click on it up in your import
window you can scroll down to properties and if you click on that it'll give you
the information on the footage you're using you can see if it's in h.264 you
can see if it's full HD 1920 by 1080 you can see the frame rate that you filmed
it at and the bitrate that it's sitting at currently I personally prefer filming
at 60 frames a second here it's 59.9 and at a higher bitrate something that's
over 50,000 kbps I think that just looks better not only coming in but going out
as well it tends to be more crisp so make sure the original footage that you
brought into your project is solid and clear and is going to do what you want
before you even start working with it the next place you want to pay attention
to is if you click under file in the upper left
scroll down to project settings it'll tell you what your project is actually
set at currently my project is set at 1920 by 1080 Full HD and it's set at the
same 59.9 60 frames per second rate that my content was filmed at so I know my
project is going to be working with the same frame rate and resolution as the
footage I brought into it if you also click on file and scroll down to
preferences and then scroll over to performance you'll see that this allows
you to enable your GPU acceleration which makes files move more quickly
while you're working with them but it also allows you to set proxy files that
have film or work with smaller resolution and size files in your
project while you're editing and then defaults back to the higher
resolution larger files on export now I've realized that some computers that
don't really meet all the system specs of filmora properly don't always export
with those high resolution files or have issues using proxy settings so if you
are having problems with resolution on your export consider turning off the
automatic proxy files and resetting your project restarting it without that
enabled and see if that helps you out at all
the other thing I want you to be aware of is over here right under the preview
window you can click and open up the playback quality now by default it's set
to half which means anything that you're viewing while you're editing is only
half the resolution of what is actually going to be exported and sometimes
people are fooled because they see the preview window looks block --is-- or a
little blurred and they think oh my god my project isn't clear but it's just the
fact that filmora is working with a smaller playback to allow it to run more
smoothly if you change that setting to full now you'll be able to get a better
idea of what the final product will look like when it's actually exported and
speaking of exports this button up here export is so important when you click on
that let me move that over so you can see it this will define everything
that's going on with the export of your project now a lot of people just click
YouTube and start uploading right away and think everything is fine but I want
to warn you about something that a lot of creatives have been wrestling with
people with some systems that are very close to the specs are slightly below or
just barely exceed these system requirements they start running into
issues while they're trying to edit a project and upload it to YouTube all at
the same time you're asking filmora to do a lot of things all at once I
personally prefer to export locally if you click on the local tab that will
allow you to take your project and export it to your computer before it
ever goes up to YouTube you don't have to wrestle with any of your internet
connection speeds and have that be an issue YouTube doesn't recognize itself
as a storage facility if files are lost they don't guarantee
that they can get them back so anything you've worked hard on I absolutely
recommend export it locally have a hard copy of the thing that you
worked on so that if God forbid something happens on YouTube you have
another copy that you can upload again and you control your own content now
when it comes to the actual export settings you can see that it's popping
in what I was using in my project settings but you can actually click on
settings and redefine how you want this exported don't just choose good better
best some people click on best thinking well that's what it is but you can go in
and you can say this is the exact resolution I want I'm working with 1920
by 1080 here's the framerate that I want to stay consistent to my original
footage 59.94 fps and I've already got this project set to 50,000 kbps as
custom but the default is only about 8000 even under best it only goes
slightly higher you can set your own custom kbps bit rate up to 80,000 kbps
so I suggest going with a higher value bitrate is completely underrated if you
increase the frame rate of what you're filming and the bitrate of what you're
filming it's gonna be a lot clearer even if you're filming in 1080 as opposed to
4k because it's a higher resolution file it's got more information in it all the
details will start coming out more clearly and more crisply another thing
in your audios I personally like to use 48 thousand Hertz that you can use 40
for one that's CD standard that's fine but make sure your bitrate is up again I
think it defaults to about 192 I won't use anything less than 320 and I've got
higher depending on what the particular thing I'm doing if it has a lot of deep
audio effects I want to make sure those super lows sound really crisp on better
systems and the highs don't get minced in any way I think you guys have all
heard sometimes you listen to an mp3 that isn't great quality and the highs
get really kind of squashed and weird sounding almost warbly so make sure
you're using a really high bitrate on your audio exports so your sound is as
good as your video export and everything is really high quality once you've got
that all set hit OK make sure you enable your GPU accelerated video encoding on
export so it will export as quickly as possible
optimizing the performance of your particular systems graphics card and
then just click export then once you've done you've got it
saved locally review that file make sure it looks the way you want it to look and
then upload it to YouTube and you'll be good to go I hope that helped but if you
have any questions feel free to ask me down in the comments below and we'll
talk about this more and don't forget to check out this video over here showing
you some other cool things that you can do in film or a 9 piece