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‎Jul 24, 2018
02:18 PM
So I finally figured out how to 'force' Youtube to use the VP9 codec, instead of the mp4, and the video pretty much looks exactly the same... still pixelated and pretty much looks like it's terrible quality. I have now settled on the idea that it's the best I'm going to get it to look on Youtube. I'm wondering if it maybe has to do with the color grading that was done in Premiere, Youtube just isn't able to play it back without pixelation... for some reason. I don't know. I still don't understand how some music videos seem to have absolutely pristine video quality. I wonder if they just know what's going to look good on Youtube when they actually shoot and edit, and know what might end up looking pixelated. Or they actually get some kind of privilege to have higher quality video. I supposde the best I could do would be to pay for a 'Pro' Vimeo account, and hope it actually plays back without garbage pixelation.
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‎Jul 22, 2018
09:59 PM
Thanks, ya for sure, definitely a ton of learning to do for me, I find this stuff very perplexing. It seems strange that I can't just get what I see in Premiere on to Youtube, and have it look the same, or relatively close. I'm now reading that Youtube has a higher quality codec (or container? I'm not sure the correct term) for videos called VP9, over the lesser quality mp4. And if you 'render out' your video to 1440p before uploading, it will automatically use VP9. So I tried simply using a 4k preset in Premiere during exporting, uploaded it to Youtube, and it still looks bad. If you right click on the video in Youtube, click 'Stats For Nerds', it still says the video is mp4. Then I read that if your channel has over 1000 subscribers, it will automatically use VP9. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with what's happening for me... I'm kind of stuck now, which is pretty frustrating... I guess I'll keep researching and making random changes, and hope to stumble on an answer. But ya, the last screenshot I took there, I just took right above and below the black bars, it is actually 16:9, I just put in a crop in Premiere for stylistic effect. Thanks again, we'll see what happens here:)
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‎Jul 22, 2018
07:52 PM
Here's a screenshot of the type of pixelation I'm talking about... in case anyone has any thoughts...: If you can click on it to make it bigger, when it's small you can't really see.
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‎Jul 22, 2018
07:34 PM
So I tried using the 'Youtube' preset in Premiere to see if that would be better, uploaded it to Youtube, and it looks like absolute filth. Similarly as bad as the DNxHR version, but maybe slightly worse. It's just really pixelated. I'm running out of ideas. The DNxHR version looks great on my computer, terrible on Youtube... do certain people get special privileges on Youtube to upload high quality uncompressed video? Or is there some export setting I could find that would solve my problem? I feel like I'm missing something... Any ideas at all would be hugely appreciated.
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‎Jul 22, 2018
06:17 PM
rodneyb56060189: Actually it looks like absolute garbage on youtube... It's just a private video until I figure this out, but it's way more pixelated than even anything I exported out of Premiere. This is really frustrating. And then watching videos that look insanely crisp on youtube, I wonder how they're doing it... like this one: Conor Oberst - Barbary Coast (Later) (Official Video) - YouTube Veeerrry confusing stuff... I guess I have to go back to the ol H.264, and settle with a pixelated video... or maybe it will magically look better on youtube... and use the nice .mxf version to sit on my computer for some theoretical future use...?
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‎Jul 21, 2018
02:48 PM
Okay, so I think I finally found the solution. I guess with video, depending on what your source material is, slow motion, fast motion etc etc, one needs to choose relevant export settings. I'm learning there's no one 'Best' export settings to just get the maximum quality, it all depends... which is I'm assuming why there are soooo many options available. The export settings I ended up using, seem to get me very very close to the playback within premiere, it's definitely waaay better than it was. It might be the same, but still in Premiere, the text looks a bit sharper... but who knows. This is what ended up working: Format: DNxHR/DNxHD MXF OP1a (thanks Richard M Knight! I didn't originally know what an .mxf file was, but apparently Youtube accepts it, and I guess it tends to look better than H.264? I have a lot of learning to do:) Preset: DNX HQX 1080p 23.976 And then I checked Render at maximum depth, and use maximum render quality. I also set Time Interpolation to 'Optical Flow', because everything is in slow motion... I'm not sure if that helped... Thanks again everyone!
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‎Jul 21, 2018
12:49 PM
The version of Premiere CC I'm using is: 12.1.1 Things I've tried so far, but I'm still having the same problem: • I have made sure 'Use Previews' is unchecked during the export. • I tried exporting using a DNxHR 10bit codec (I really don't know what that is) and it created a .xmp file, which I'm not sure what to do with... • Tried using VBR 1 pass, and 2 pass Here are some things I've noticed, I'm not sure if the answer might be in here somewhere, or might provide a clue: • I have yellow bars at the top of my entire sequence, so I tried 'Render In to Out' (even though I believe it's not necessary to render before exporting) just to see, and suddenly the clips were pixelated and it looked bad within Premiere. So then I deleted the render files, and it went back to normal, great looking footage. • I originally created the sequence settings, by simply dragging the first clip onto the 'New Item' icon, ostensibly creating a sequence that matches the footage. But I've noticed in my sequence settings, it's set to 'ARRI Cinema' in editing mode. Is that what I should have? • The footage was shot on a Canon C100, and I believe half the footage was shot with mp4, using the 'Special Fast And Slow Motion' feature in the camera, which shoots at 60p fps and then automatically slows to 23.976 fps. Then the other half was shot with AVCHD at 60p fps, and then 'interpreted as 23.976 fps' in Premiere to be slow motion. Again, everything looks great in the timeline during playback. Shouldn't I be able to have an exported version that looks identical to how I'm seeing it in Premiere? • If i check the 'Match Sequence Settings' in the export window, the format I get is MPEG Preview... is that what I should have? And then also under 'Basic Video Settings' the quality is set to 50, and is then greyed out and can't be changed... anything weird about that? Thank you!
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‎Jul 21, 2018
11:17 AM
Thanks everyone for the replies so far! Looks like I have lots to try, I'm going to experiment with a lot of things here, and I will report back:)
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‎Jul 21, 2018
02:28 AM
So I don't think I have a dedicated graphics card... I have a 2017 iMac, nothing in the way of a dedicated card... I tried turning off 'Render at maximum depth', and the export really just looks the same. Here is a screenshot of the sequence settings: Thank you!
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‎Jul 20, 2018
11:03 PM
I'm fairly new to Adobe Premiere, and I'm really stumped as to what the problem could be here. And maybe it's just as good as it gets... So after exporting the mp4 file in Premiere, the video looks somewhat pixelated. There is a lot of smoke in the video, and subtle gradients, and the video seems to have sort of distinct sections of color, that are a bit pixelated. In premiere itself, it looks absolutely perfect, but not in the exported version. I'm wondering if that's just the way it is, and I need to accept that it doesn't look as good as in Premiere?... Here is a screenshot of what the video looks like in Premiere: And here is one of the first frame in Quicktime player, of the exported version: It's kind of hard to tell in these photos, but you can see defined sections in the bottom one, where it kind of looks like Quicktime is just rounding certain pixels off, and it's not just a completely smooth gradient. And it's kind of pixelated... not absolutely horrible, but nowhere near as good as in Premiere. Here is what my export setting look like: And then further down: I've also tried exporting through Media Encoder, and that seemed to make no difference. (I have Encoder open during these screenshots, which is why there's no 'Export' button I believe, to do it within Premiere) Any thoughts on a possible solution would be amazing! The final video will basically just go on to Youtube... if that matters... Thanks very much in advance!
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‎Aug 25, 2017
01:22 AM
Hello everyone. I'm quite new to Adobe Premiere, but we're trying to create a music video for a song we're working on. What we're hoping to achieve is to have our main shot of a person (who's lip syncing the words), with his face above the mouth blocked out by a separate box, that is simultaneously playing other video. Then we're going to have some strange psychedelic video clips showing in that box. The camera is moving around a bit as well, so ideally we would like to be able to 'motion track' the separate video, so that it stays on his face for the duration of the clip. Almost like the person has a video screen for head, playing separate video... Does anyone have any suggestions on how we might achieve this? What Premiere tools we might look in to using? Another thing we thought of trying, would be to shoot the video with a picture frame on his face, like a face mask. And then make the inside of the frame green, and chroma key it out, showing the separate video. I feel like the first option would look better though. Thank you so much in advance for any ideas you may have! Cheers. (using Premiere Pro CC 2017)
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