How to export 4K video in Premiere Pro CC for YouTube, Vimeo, & Facebook

hey guys my name's Matt Johnson and today I want to talk to you about my video exporting settings that I use whenever I'm rendering my videos out from Premiere Pro and I realize that's a really basic topic that a lot of you guys are like either watching this on YouTube or Vimeo so you're like I already make videos on how to do this why are you talking about this but if you go to my website who is matcom the two most popular posts that I've ever written the first is about my exporting settings for YouTube the other is about my exporting settings for Instagram and there's like hundreds of people out there that have been looking for this every day and I realized that I not made videos for either of these topics and I'm like man I really need to do this is important so today this video is the first in a series of three videos all about my export settings and I'm sure like really might you need to make three videos does that really need to happen but hear me out okay this is important this video is going to be all about exporting in 4k so exporting videos to YouTube and Vimeo and Facebook and other sites that can support 4k it's also about delivering 4k to your clients which is also very important because on YouTube or Vimeo you may want to upload a much higher quality video file than you would necessarily give to a client you don't need to be given like a 10 gig video file and be like why is it so big what is it done to me so there is a difference in size depending on where you are sending the video so I want to make sure we talk about that but if you get bored of me talking you don't listen to me ramble about video settings and why I choose them and appoint them in the description of this video right down below there's going to be a link to a blog post detailing all of my export settings so if you just don't want to watch this you can go to there and click on that and read but if you're still sticking around I would love to talk to you about exporting 4k video and hop right into premiere right now welcome to Adobe Premiere Pro 2017 I'll go to help page here go to the about page so you can see that I'm using version 2017 point 0.2 just so you are aware of whenever you are editing on your own version of the software now as you can see are already of a project opened up and I have one video clip imported which is from a family cruise vacation that we took here it's pretty cool and you'll see that it is a 4k video clip now before we go and render it we need to talk about sequences because ideally whenever you are recording a video and editing it and then exporting it you want all the settings to remain the same throughout so you want to shoot with certain camera settings then you want to edit with the same camera then you want extra with the same camera setting so that way everything is smooth throughout the video so let's create a new sequence that matches our 4k video footage you can either press ctrl in to open up the new sequence dialog box or you can go to file new sequence and that's going to open up the new sequence dialog box you have a lot of presets in here generally I use the digital SLR preset but you'll notice that it does not have an option for 4k you have 1080p 480p 720p no 4k so we need to create one of our own so let's select 1080p and we're gonna select 1080p 24 because we shot our video at 24 frames per second or 23.976 same thing then you're going to select the settings box at the top this is the preset page for the DSLR 1080p preset and we only change one thing to make it work with 4k and that's the frame size so we're going to change the horizontal to 38 40 and we're going to change the vertical 221 60 everything else can remain the same your pixel aspect ratio is going to remain the same because I've used that for every single DSLR emulous I've ever used has been 1.0 fields you're shooting progressive already so you can leave that audio settings your separated as 48 thousand Hertz on pretty much all DSLRs and mirrorless I've ever used if your camera is recording with the different Hertz change it to the Hertz that it's using video previews you do not need to change any of this your width can be 1920 your height can be 1080 because it is just the preview your maximum bit depth and maximum render quality also do not need to be checked because this is just for video previews now if you are say shooting with a pin bit camera such as an ff7 or a red or a black magic and you have shot in tin bit then you should definitely check the maximum depth box here because that is going to give you visual previews of your tin bit footage and you're going to be able to see that one of your editing and color grading so that should definitely be selected as you can see it'll give you some morning about your memory status and stuff like that make sure you have enough memory if you're doing this for now because I'm shooting with a SMS 2 and it is only 8-bit I do not need to have maximum bit depth or maximum render quality checked we will check maximum render quality whenever we are rendering the video but because it's just the preview we do not need to do that lastly this composite linear color it's checked on my computer because I and using GPU acceleration if you do not have a GPU to accelerate your video rendering this may not be checked or available I would not worry about it either way at this point because the only thing this affects is the nervous compositing certain effects and it'll affect fades in certain ways and things like that but it's very obscure and you probably will not notice it google it if you want to know more I don't want to get into it right now because I want to talk about video rendering lastly this VR properties we're not shooting in VR this is V I wish it was be super cool but it's not so lastly you're going to click Save preset and let's call it 3840x2160 23.976 so that way you know the resolution and the frame rate and that's about all that you need to know so we're gonna click OK and it's going to repopulate the sequence preset list and there it is and you'll see that I already had one these are both the same so we'll just select the one I already had these are both the exact same preset though now we're going to name the sequence we'll call this for K export setting and we're gonna click insert and it's going to create our new sequence now let's take our video clip and we're going to drag it down to the sequence right here at the beginning is fine and then it man that's looking pretty look at that beautiful palm tree footage Wow now the video clip is down on our timeline let's pretend that we've already edited this fully it's a fully edited video and we're ready to render it so now we need to set art in and our out points which is very helpful if say you're starting your video over here and you don't want to have a bunch of blank space in front of your video I do this in the event that I ever need to like add something to the beginning I have a little bit of wiggle room to dealt without needing to shuffle everything over so let's go to the start of our video clip and we're going to tap I on the keyboard and that's going to cause a new bar to appear at the top that is our end point and we left that right at the start on my video whenever you want to start then we're going to go to the end of our video right to the last frame roughly here it's fine and we're in a tempo and that is going to be our out point and that is now our entire video from beginning to end as it will be rendered next let's render it we can either press ctrl M to bring up the render menu or we can go to file export media either one of those are going to bring up the export settings dialog box where we change our settings to end our video now here's where things get interesting because I'm going to share with you two different export preset settings one of them is going to be if you're exporting to YouTube or Facebook or Vimeo and in which case you're going to have a very very large video file the other one is if you are going to be exporting to give to a client at which point you don't want to give them just some massive video flower like this is crazy why don't you give me something this big ideally you want something to look best for about streaming video sites and for a client so that's why there are two different presets for that now let's talk about the video presets that I use mmmm exporting to YouTube or Vimeo or to other video sharing site and first I want you to think about how your video looks right after you render it whenever you play it back for the first time you're like this looks so beautiful oh my god this is amazing this is a gorgeous thing I can't wait to share this and then you upload YouTube and you playback and you're like why does this look not so good why is it all compressed why is there artifacts what is wrong with the thing why is the video not looking as good as good on my computer the reason is because a little thing called compression which all of these video sites do because they want to transform your video into multiple different formats that can be played on computers and laptops and tablets and everything else and for them to do that they're going to take your beautiful pristine video file and they're going to crush it down into a really small size maybe like my beautiful work it's gone so to combat that and to get around that we can use a very high resolution very high bitrate file whenever we first upload to YouTube and that is going to result in the compressed version of YouTube made also being very high quality because they're losing less data as they're compressed more and more the only drawback of this is that the file size is very large and you're not going to run into an issue with this for YouTube as long as you have a fast internet connection you can just upload away and enjoy it but if you are on Vimeo Vimeo has upload limits if you are a free user you can upload 500 megabytes a week if you're a plus user you can upload 5 gigabytes a week and pro users can upload 20 gigabytes week which sounds like a lot until you're dealing with very high resolution 4k footage the free and the plus plans are pretty laughable for how big a files you may be dealing with uploading for now that is just something that I want you to be aware of if you are exporting in 4k for video onward now to the video preset settings and we're going for all the video sites first format you're going to select h.264 which is already selected here which is great next for preset you're going to go to custom because we want to totally customize something from the ground up and make it our own next you're going to select an output name and location for where you want to save your video file always make sure you do that and make sure you have the export video and export audio boxes checked because I have done it before where I didn't have the export audio button check tonight render my entire video and realize oh there's no sound does this happen multiple times so make sure you got that next you have the summary section which is very helpful if you do not remember your sequence settings they're there right there for you if you need them below that you have effects video audio multiplexer captions and publish the only two things that you need to worry about our video and audio the rest of this is not important which is really great now let's talk about basic video settings before you start messing with width and Heights and everything else you need to go down to profile and make sure that is set to high the h.264 video encoding format offers three different profiles there is baseline main and high baseline was made for like early cell phones main was made for general usage and highways for high performance basically think of the profile as the engine that is running the encoding and between baseline main or high you always want to select high because high is going to be using all of the best encoding presets and all the bells and whistles as they call it for your injury so you want to make sure that high is selected Nexus level and you can think of level as a preset for different encoding resolutions and frame rate for example if you were to select only level 3 point to the maximum resolution of your video would be 1280 by 720 which we will enter here and you'll notice it fills up but if I wanted to say try to make it bigger if I want to do 1920 and I hit enter it's going to say invalid frame size for this level please lower the video bounds or increase the profile level so what we need to do whenever we do that is that we need to make sure that we are selecting the level that is appropriate for the video that we are currently rendering in this case we are using the highest level 5.2 because we are at the upper limits of what h.264 as a video codec can handle and that is going to bring up 38 40 one-sixty which is the same as our source settings and is the same as when we shut so that is what we want for our width and our height of our video you'll notice though that it also changed the frame rate which is grayed out to 59.94 which is not what our sources so we need to uncheck this little box here and we need to select 23.976 field or can stay the same let's find aspect make sure it's square pixels 1.0 just like it was in our sequence that we created leave the profile level as it is because now that's all done last in the basic video settings we are going to check the render maximum depth box and the reason you want to do that as it says here improves the videos quality namely it is very helpful in high contrast scenes if you have say a blue sky you don't want to get the gradient issues and banding checking the render maximum bit dead box will help with that so make sure that it's checked next let's move on to bitrate settings which is definitely some of the most confusing but most important part of your video render you'll notice here that you have three bitrate encoding options you have CBR dbr1 path and vbr 2 pass now what exactly is bitrate encoding and bitrate in general for that matter now I'm going to massively oversimplify this here but I'm going to say that has to do with a lot of math and compression and you're probably thinking well mat why would I want to compress my video 1 in the highest quality possible-- no you don't because that is going to result in like why is my video a terabyte in size this is insane you don't want that you want some compression but you want good compression so we want to use good compression to compress our video so it looks as good as possible now what is good compression good compression is mixing a high bitrate with a high resolution video file ideally they will work together very well where this falls apart is if you have too low of a bitrate and a higher resolution video the bit rate and the encoder is not able to keep up with all the stuff happening in the video frame and you get artifacts a good example of this occurring is if you have a high resolution video with a lot of fast moving objects one place I see it happen Loft is in tree leaves if you are filming through these and they're all moving once the video encoder will freak out and be unable to render it properly and you have all these artifacts so to avoid that you need to have an even higher bitrate to compensate let's jump right into our bitrate settings start changing them so first we're going to go to bitrate encoding and we're going to select CBR which stands for constant bitrate which means that no matter what is happening on the screen the encoder is going to be throwing the same amount of data edit in this case right now the target bitrate is 17 megabits per second which for 4k video is not nearly enough even if you were just going to be watching it on your computer screen because the resolution is so high so we need to increase the bitrate so that it is looking flawless no matter what is happening in our video the issue that we need to come back to though is because we're uploading to YouTube whatever we render it out as is still going to be compressed down to a smaller format so to combat that I would recommend setting your target bitrate to a very high level and what I set mine to is 100 megabits per second which you are like oh my gosh Matt that is huge this is crazy which is not that crazy but the benefit of it is that no matter what is happening in your video no matter how many leaves or how many fast-moving things are happening the bitrate is going to be more than able to handle it and more importantly whenever you upload it to YouTube or Vimeo they are going to compress it down but because the bitrate is so high they are going to compress it into a video it looks very good that still doesn't have any of those compression artifacts this is my secret probably upload really good videos with the only cost being space on my computer and upload time which if you have a fast internet connection I do and a lot of video space that's really not an issue incidentally depending on the length of your video you may begin running over videos upload limit with this high of a bitrate so feel free to address it down to 80 or 60 as you need to to make sure that your video fits into the upload size requirements for Vimeo you don't have to worry about that for YouTube though because it does offer unlimited upload space next we can ignore everything else we don't need to worry about keyframe distance and the video is not VR as we did in the sequence - unfortunately what you do want to check down here is use maximum render quality which as you can see here it says it gives you better quality scaling but increases being code time so if you are rendering a video and some of your footage is 4k but some of its 1080p and you scale it up to 4k or scale the 4k down to 1080p using maximum render quality can definitely improve the quality of the scaling so make sure you have that check I have to check by default because I'm always using mixed resolution projects so it's easier for me to leave it checked audio settings onto audio here this is really quick and easy audio format you're going to want AAC audio codec is AAC sample rate needs to be 48,000 Hertz which should match your camera and audio recorder audio quality dub that needs to be high I don't know why you would want it to be anything else other than high leave it at high your bitrate should we get the max at 320 and you should give precedence to the bitrate not the sample rate so that way it is rendering the audio at the highest quality possible-- lastly we're going to save our preset so we're going to go up here to the little down arrow we're going to click save preset and we're going to name it CBR 100 mbps 3840x2160 23.976 so that way you can know that it's constant bitrate at 100 megabits per second your resolution and your frame rate which is really all that you're going to need to know whenever you're selecting a preset click OK and that's going to be saved and at this point you can go ahead and click queue or export your video and render it and there you go but now we need to talk about if you are rendering your video for a client because having 100 megabits bitrate and CVR is great if you are wanting to upload to YouTube but if you are giving a video to a client they may not be interested in getting the 10 gigabyte video file and they're like why is it so big I'm not going to be uploading it and because you're not gonna be doing with compression you don't really need to be worrying about using CBR VBR especially if you're just giving them on a flash drive for them to watch so in the case of giving the video to a client we're going to go down here video settings we're going to go to bitrate encoding and we're going to select vbr 2 pass now we need to talk about VBR to pass and VBR 1 pass VBR 1 pass means that whenever the encoder goes through your video file and is choosing the bitrate for the specific scene it is just going to be guessing it's like okay this looks like it's more important we should give it more data lower data higher data done and it's actually a pretty quick way to render your video the drawback of this is that it can be a little inefficient because it doesn't know quite how much data to use and so sometimes using a little bit more than it needs and sometimes using a little less you can have quality issues vbr 2 pass on the other hand goes through the video twice yes that doesn't mean it takes twice as long to render but it can result in a much better video quality because the first path it goes to the video and it measures how much data it's going to need so it says okay boring seem as a fine we leave seeing okay well we're going to increase the data rate a lot ok back down to boring thing we don't need to worry about it then the second pass comes in and it renders the video at the data rate that the first pass recommended so by doing that you end up with a very efficient video file that is the optimal size while remaining the optimal quality this is a really nice balance and if you are not uploading to YouTube or Vimeo I would definitely recommend using vbr 2 pass if you're giving your video to your clients what you need to consider whenever you are encoding in VBR is the target pay rate and the maximum bitrate you notice how in CBR we only had target bitrate but now we have maximum bitrate as well because the target bitrate is going to be the average bitrate that you want your video to be at and the maximum bitrate is the overhead view give it if you're like oh man I know there may be some really intense scenes here so I want to make sure that you have enough data that you don't break down and get artifact beyond me now to determine the best target bitrate and maximum bitrate for your video file I would recommend going to YouTube and to their help page where they have their recommend upload encoding settings and if you look over here under bitrate it's saying that for 4k the video bitrate should be 35 to 45 megabits per second if it's out of frame it should be higher but for what we're shooting 35 to 45 so let's go over here to our target and let's set it to 40 and we're going to set our maximum here to 60 so I'll give us a nice average bitrate but give us some room of things start to get a little crazy what I want you to know is that whenever we went to VBR and we drop the target bitrate the estimated file size down here dropped considerably so if you are looking at CBR here and you have it set to 100 suddenly your estimated 554 megabytes which is huge for this little file that's only 21 seconds long if you look over here at vbr 2 pass and we drop it down to 40 and 60 then suddenly our estimated file 5 is only 102 megabytes so it is a significantly smaller file size and it's still going to look great in 4k so if you are delivering to clients in particular I would highly recommend using VB are two paths with these encoding settings and if you are uploading to YouTube or Vimeo or Facebook or to any other video sharing site where they use a lot of compression CBR at 100 megabits per second otherwise if you're delivering the clients here you can leave all of your settings the exact same as there were a few as if you were uploading to YouTube or Vimeo and you can go ahead and click queue or export and export your video that's it thanks so much for watching I hope this video has given you some insight into how you can export your videos in awesome 4k resolution and if you're already know how to do that I hope at the very least that I was entertaining to you as always if you have any questions or comments please feel free to leave one below or get in touch with me through my website who is matcom and if you like this video I would love it if you would give it a like and if you are interested in seeing more filmmaking tutorials like 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Length: 20min 59sec (1259 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 05 2017