When you have your edit completed and ready for delivery, there is only one step left – exporting for delivery. Exporting a finished video with Premiere Pro is an absolute essential skill that is required to finish any edit. To export a video in Premiere Pro go to “FileExportMedia.” You could also press the shortcut key “control M” on PC, or “command M” on Mac. Make sure your sequence that you want to export is selected when you do this. This will bring up your export settings window.
In this window, you’ll select your desired settings or presets for the video before sending it to Media Encoder for exporting. The first thing to think about when exporting a video is to think about where the video will be delivered and how it will be viewed.
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Are you going to upload to Youtube and Vimeo? Are you going to burn it to a DVD?
Are you going to give the client a highly compressed rough copy to watch on their phone? The delivery destination is very important on deciding what the settings need to be.
There are loads of useful presets already pre-installed with Premiere Pro and Media Encoder. You can use these presets to quickly choose settings for your exported file. If you want to bypass these custom settings and export with the EXACT settings of your sequence, you can select “match sequence settings” at the top. That will change your export settings to exactly match your sequence settings, although I don’t recommend this because most delivery destinations require codecs other than your common editing or intermediate codec.
For this example, we’ll be exporting from Premiere Pro to upload to Vimeo. Note, these video export settings for Vimeo are applicable for other online video services as well, such as YouTube. The best setting for web playback is the H.264 codec. So we’ll select our format as H.264. We’ll select a preset that matches our sequence and our desired output. Our sequence is 1080p with a frame rate of 29.97. So, we’ll select the “HD 1080p 29.97” preset.
Click the output name to specify an output name for the exported video file. To learn more about properly naming a file, Make sure that “export video” and “export audio” are both checked so the file has both video and audio. If you feel comfortable with changing settings to make them more customizable, this can also be done in this window. Double check your settings to make sure everything is the way you want. Now, you can select one of two Premiere Pro export options: “Queue” or “Export.” Selecting “Queue” will send you to Media Encoder with the sequence added to a queue. Then, all you have to do is press the green play button at the top to start the export. This is good if you want to add multiple Premiere Pro sequences to export at the same time.
This also allows you to continue working in Premiere Pro while Media Encoder exports in the background. I usually use this method of exporting. Selecting “Export” simply exports the sequence right from that window. You will not be able to use Premiere Pro while it is exporting this way.
You just exported your finished video. If you find yourself using a custom setting frequently, you can save your export settings as a new preset. Click the “save preset” button next to the preset dropdown in the export window.
You can then name the preset whatever you like. Now, you can use that saved preset in the future. As you can see, exporting a finished video from Premiere Pro is super easy and very customizable. Want to streamline your exporting even more? You can also add additional output files from the same source sequence in Media Encoder – very useful for creating different file types and sizes of the same video.
. Stanley Arthur said: My best success so far has been windows media format at 1024 kbps.
See for yourself at youtube, username stanarthur. Depending on the format of the source video, I've been known to change the frame rate from 29.97 to 23.97, or from lower field (NTSC) to progressive. Leaving the aspect set to square pixels seems to work well, too. Tom Krauska said: YouTube is changing its video setup to allow a High Quality video to be shown if you submit it in that format.
Unfortunately, that means most of the 320x240 videos will never look very good. Jake Ludington has a good article about this on his site. He also sent me this response as to how he sends in HQ videos to YouTube. 'Minimum 640x480 for all videos. I always use WMV format because in my testing it seems to look better. I shoot everything in HD, so I normally try and use 1280x720 when it fits in the 100MB limit or resize to 960x540 if I cross the size limit threshold (and they recently extended the limit if you use the upload tool). It's VBR with quality set to 90% and encode complexity set to the maximum.'
. Jeff Schell said: I don't purport this to be the end-all-be-all best option, but I've been quite satisfied with the results when uploading to Youtube using the following settings. In the Adobe Media Encoder, I choose Windows Media, and instead of using a windows media v9 codec, I have an option for a windows media MPEG4 codec. Set the size to 320 x 240, square pixels.
(I'm not at my computer right now, but I believe square pixels was the only choice presented to me.) Set the video quality to the maximum on the quality slider. After experimenting with a dozen or so videos, I've found the sweet spot to be an encoding bitrate of about 600 Kbps. Anything above that seemed to be wasted disk space, and below 550 Kbps I started to notice degredation. (This is all personal taste, by the way.
If you want to set it to 1000 Kbps, the more the merrier. The only downside is it will take longer to upload, but 1000 Kbps is the 'better safe than sorry' approach.) And I've been using an audio encoding option of 44.1 128 Kbps stereo. (But I have 'video ears,' so 128 is perfectly fine to me.
I'm not an audiophile by any stretch of the imagination.) The above settings have yielded no noticable quality loss after uploading to Youtube - and I've uploaded about 60 videos. Granted, Youtube likes to 'enlarge' the clips beyond 320 x 240 in their default media player.
So if you click the 'reduce size' button back to its original 320x240 size, the quality looks muuuuch sharper. Identical to the original in my humble opinion. Steven Gotz said: I think I finally got a decent YouTube video using the method suggested by the producers of the Mr. Deity videos. The method was to export a DV AVI from Premiere Pro, then follow these instructions: 'Before uploading, I convert the file with QuickTime Pro to h.264, 480x360 pixels at 24fps, better quality, and with a keyframe every 24 frames. The audio is set to AAC, VBR 96-110, 32k stereo.'
I left mine at 29.97 but the rest seemed to do the trick. It still looks better when you click the button that makes it 320X240.
The original was 480X360 and the file was around 48MB for a 3 minute video. Connor Roberts said: ignore the recommended youtube settings, and the biggest file is not always the best file.here is what you need to do for youtube. If you want to export to youtube, you should export in FLV format out of adobe media encoder.
And use these dimensions 425x318 (trust me, i've spent months and months researching the best youtube quality, and this is what they export in for the crystal-clear videos on youtube when they make those political ones that are always so clear) when you go direct to FLV in that exact size, then youtube doesnt have to respample, just compresses the data rate. Also, use 192kbps or 128kbps mp3 audio quality.