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
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As a subscriber to your channel before seeing this, respectfully, the best export settings for 95% of users is built into Premiere Pro and has been for years.
You're covering a ton of topics in a very strange order. A better title for your video would be 'understanding your export options with Premiere Pro.' Don't dismiss the Media Encoder either, it does a lot more than you give it credit for at the end of your tutorial.
EDIT: didn't mean to sound like an asshole here. These tutorials and skills take time and effort I get that and remains subscriber.