And here's the biggest thing of the whole tutorial.
It's the target bit rate number that you choose in the export settings
window of Premiere Pro that will determine the overall quality
of your final export.
From the get go, you probably want to use the same export
settings as your sequence settings in Premiere Pro. Because of your upscaling
something that was shot in 1080p edited in 1080p, but then exported at 4k.
There's no reason to do that.
Theoretically, you would be adding quote unquote resolution,
but you wouldn't be adding more detail.
You'd just be making things bigger to fit into a 4k aspect ratio.
But on the flip side, let's say you filmed everything in 4K, then you downscaled
everything to 1080p and edited your sequence in 1080p.
You'll want to export your sequence at 1080p.
Now the export will look so much better because you're filming in 4k
and there's a whole bunch
of added resolution there, as opposed to if you were filming in 1080p.
But it doesn't work the other way around.
You can't film in 1080p and then all of a sudden get like these
even more high definition 4k ultra high definition files on export.
If you filmed in 1080p to upscale to 4k.
So when in doubt, a good rule of thumb is to shoot, edit,
and export with the same resolution, whether it be HD or 4K,
as well as the same frame rate throughout the whole process.
In the timeline, if you were
to export a sequence like this, you would export the entire timeline.
Now, if you're like me, you might have some B roll over here to the side.
And I don't want to export any of this.
This is my main timeline.
So what I like to do is highlight
the clips that I want to export from the timeline.
Hit the question mark, and that will set my in and out points.
Or these blue brackets right here to the exact beginning
and ending of those clips that you highlighted.
Now, the physical duration of your video is defined by the in and out points.
You can get rid of the in and out points by hitting alt X.
And if you wanted to customize and export a specific section
of your sequence, you can always move the play head to a certain spot.
Hit “I” to create your inpoint and hit “O” to create the outpoint.
And now, if I were to export, it would only export
what's inside this area.
And if you ever have trouble remembering
about how the in and out points work in terms of exporting,
you can always think about it in terms of Lion King in that
everything that the grayish highlighted area touches is what will be exported.
That's the best James Earl Jones impersonation you'll ever hear.
Probably not. Moving on.
To reach the export media window, you can go to file export
or you can hit command “M” on Mac or control “M” on windows.
Here inside the export settings for format.
We're going to make sure it's h.264 underneath this preset dropdown menu.
It comes with YouTube 1080p full HD presets and a 4k ultra HD preset.
So when in doubt, just use those and you will probably be OK.
Right now I'm going to export at 1080p.
And the reason being is because right here in the source,
I can tell that my sequence is at 1920 by 1080.
So again, it makes no sense for me to export at 4k,
but if you shot in 4k, and edit it in 4k, then for sure go ahead and export at 4k.
Scrolling over the output name
will tell you the file path of where your video is going to end up
on your computer.
All you have to do is click on it and save it as whatever you want to.
I'm going to save this as rough cut v3.
Make sure export video is checked and make sure export audio is checked
in the summary as well.
If you want a quick reference,
you can always make sure that, hey, this is 1920 x 1080 (1.0).
This is 1920 x 1080 (1.0).
scrolling down our width is 1920 x 1080 HD.
I've never run into a project where I haven't used square pixels.
I think the only other time that you wouldn't do
that is if you were editing something in anamorphic.
And if that's the case, you're probably looking at a different tutorial.
Hardware encoding.
Profile is high. Level is 4.2.
And here's the biggest thing that you should remember
about the whole tutorial in terms of quality exports from Premiere Pro.
It's the target bit rate inside the encoder.
Here's the quick breakdown on bitrate encoding.
You have CBR, which stands for constant
bit rate, and you have VBR, which stands for variable bit rate.
As I understand it, if you were to use constant bit
rate encoding, what would happen is judging by the slider.
So for this example, let's say sixteen for every single second
of your video file, it will devote sixteen megabytes to it.
Now that could be good or it could be bad depending on your situation.
But in most circumstances, I don't think constant bit rate is the best option,
because it does not give you the very ability to go to an extreme
maximum bit rate for lots of action and everything going on,
and then lower the bit rate for scenes like this, where it's just a talking head.
And there really isn't any change in the pixels like behind me, because it's
just the same background the whole time.
So for YouTube and for most other circumstances,
I highly recommend using VBR or variable bit rate.
If you do VBR one pass, this is really designated for those people
that need to export something quickly and get it out of the door fast.
Because what VBR one pass does, is it does one pass of your sequence
and exports it as is.
To obtain the best quality, though you want to do VBR 2 pass.
This is going to take a longer time to export because it's
going to do two passes of your sequence on the first pass.
It's going to take an assessment of your sequence to better recognize
how to render out your sequence on the second pass, meaning
that it's going to go through and decide on all those busy parts like, hey,
there's lots of pixels changing colors and dynamic range here.
I need to devote more megabytes to this part.
And then on the flip side, it's going to look at other dull parts
and be like, I don't need to designate as much time and effort to this part
and then implement all of those calculations better on the second pass,
which leads us to the most important slider of this whole tutorial.
The target bit rate slider.
You move it up in automatically, you're going to get more quality,
but you are going to get a much bigger file size, as you can see down here
from the estimated file size, if I were to move this down.
It changes the file size as I move the target bit rate slider.
The other thing, too, is there's no reason for you to go above
what your camera's recording bit rate is anyway.
For example, my Sony A73 will record 50MB per second
when I'm shooting at 24 FPS, 1080p HD.
So there's really no reason for me to go above 50 megabytes
per second, because there's no new information there in the file.
Plus, that's humongous.
I think probably point zero zero zero
zero zero one percent are going to tell the difference in your export
if you were in the 40 to 50 megabytes per second range.
The other thing that you have to take into
consideration is the compression that happens from YouTube.
So I don't know if this is true or not, but please let me know in the comments
that if you upload too high resolution of a file,
YouTube is actually going to compress that more than if you were to upload it
at the proper settings that YouTube is looking for.
So with that in mind, if you look at YouTube's website,
as of the date of this upload for HDR uploads, you would do something like 10
Mbps for 24, 25, and 30 frames
and 15 Mbps for those higher frame rate uploads.
Those numbers go even higher for something like 4k.
So right here it says 44 - 56 Mbps for a standard frame rate
file in 4k or 66 - 85 Mbps for a high frame rate file.
So to be on the safe side in the 1080p range, let's say it's something like this.
15 Mbps. When you hit the YouTube full HD preset in Premiere Pro.
What they recommend doing is variable bit rate one pass at 16 Mbps.
Already one megabyte per second
above the highest that they say for 1080p here on the YouTube website.
So relating back to if you do have the time, I would
highly suggest, in fact, you should probably do it.
Variable bit rate 2 pass to get better quality.
Now, the target bit rate is still at 16 and the maximum bit rate is at 16.
But the great thing about having these two sliders
now is that you can change the maximum bit rate to something bigger.
Just in case there's a lot of action happening on the screen.
You can keep your target bit
rate at 16, which is close to what YouTube was showing us.
But then you can take
your maximum bit rate and raise it to something like 20 or 25,
or you could go to 50 if you wanted to. I mean, nobody's stopping you.
But personally, I think that's still way too much.
So what I like to do is something like twenty, but it's really up to you.
If you start noticing that your quality of your exports
are better with a higher target bit rate, then by all means, if you have time
to export things like that,
then maybe do a higher target bit rate with a higher maximum bit rate.
But if you really can't tell the difference with a smaller
target bit rate in a smaller maximum bit rate, then
I'm all for efficiency and speed and upload times.
Again. Target bit rate is the most important slider here.
Advanced settings. I don't touch keyframe distance. VR video.
I don't touch. The tabs for effects, multiplexer, captions, and publish
I don't touch it all. In audio.
AAC 48000 hz stereo audio
quality is high, obviously, and the bit rate is 320.
And I take the precedence of bit rate in advanced settings.
If you're looking for the best quality, obviously hit use maximum render quality.
It's going to take longer in your export.
But hey, it's there for a reason for time interpellation.
I use frame sampling.
And before we head down
to the export button, remember that you can always save these as a preset
so you don't have to input this every single time.
I will have a download link to the exact presets that I've gone over in this video.
But just remember that it is 1080p and it's at 23.976 frames per second.
And if you hit queue, it will send it to media encoder and that will allow you
to keep editing in Premiere Pro while it's exporting in the background.
But if you only have one export, you can just hit export
straight from Premiere Pro, hit that like button.
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