- So it turns out I've
been doing this wrong for a long time, but I
found out how to fix it. I went to youtube.com
and I actually found out what they prefer and what they recommend to upload as a video file to their website and so this is what I found. Let me show you what I've been
doing and then how to fix it and how to upload it
correctly with great quality, as well small file sizes. You gotta just press record. To get to your export settings, make sure you have your project selected. Go to file and then you can
go to share master file. Or what you can do is
you can come over here to the share button, and then
you can also go to master file by clicking on that right there. So now, we have this window and this is where we're gonna
get into all the information. I'm gonna show you exactly
what you need to do to upload to YouTube,
specifically to YouTube. So right now on info,
we can see a few things. We can see that our project
is 4k, which is great. That's what I want it at. We can see it's at
23.98 frames per second. Great, that's what I want to as. And right here is the file size, so we can see it's a .mov. We can see that it's 161 megabytes. Now sometimes, when you
first get into here, what you'll notice is right now, I've set it to H.264, but
usually, it's at an Apple ProRes, and this is going. Look, it's like, twice the file size. This is gonna give you huge file sizes and it's not even recommended
to do this for YouTube. It's really not necessary. So what I've been doing
for the longest time is changing my video codec to a H.264. A lot of people do this. It still works. It still goes to YouTube. It's fine, but this
leaves you with a .mov. Well, it turns out YouTube
actually wants a .MP4, so I'm gonna show you how to do that in final cut pro right now. What you need to do is go to your format and instead of video and audio,
what it is normally set to, you wanna go to computer. This is gonna change it to a .MP4 and this is also still an H.264 file. But we're gonna go to better quality because we want the best quality possible. Now, you can't really mess with
this and change the quality, but better quality is going to give you the best quality possible. Resolution, that's fine. Our color space, audio format,
all this stuff is fine. That's all you have to
change, is format to computer. Make sure you're on better quality and this is gonna give
you even a smaller file and I think why they
want a .MP4 than a .mov is because I believe
mov runs more natively on Apple devices, where MP4
is more of a global standard and all the devices that are Android, PC, Windows, all that kind of stuff, are going to run MP4 files even faster. So I believe that your .MP4 files, once you upload that to YouTube, is actually gonna run faster,
upload faster, on all devices. And so that's great and
that's what you wanna do, especially when YouTube
is recommending that. Now, let me show you how
to save this as a preset so you don't have to go
through all those steps every single time. You can just do it in one click. What you want to do is go back
up here to the share button and we actually going to add a destination because right now, when
I click on master file, even though I just change it to an MP4, I go back into my settings and it's changed back
to an H.264 mov file. So we don't want that. We're gonna cancel this. We are going to add a new
destination, and from here, all you really gotta do
is drag in, export file. Drag it right there, is fine. If you want it at the very
top, that's great, as well. When you click on it, this is where you can
actually change the preset. So format. Again, we're gonna
change this to computer. We're gonna change this to better quality and then resolution, I
like to leave mine at 4k, but you can always change
that if you edit in HD. What you can also do here, which is cool, is change the name, so we
can change this to .MP4, if we wanna do that. And then once you hit the close
button, everything's saved. You don't have to click save. You go back up here. You're gonna see our .MP4 at the very top. We're gonna click that. We go to our settings and
look, everything is saved and we can hit next and you can see, this actually updated
the resolution to match what my timeline is at. So it's gonna do that
automatically, which is perfect. Then, we're gonna go to next. We can save it to our desktop or save it to wherever we'd like, and then that is going to export for you. Click on the screen to watch more final cut pro 10 tutorials and I'll see you guys in the next video. (gentle hip-hop music)
