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fdormoy
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October 30, 2023
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Best settings to export a video clip into youtube

  • October 30, 2023
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I used a Gopro to make a video clip using 4K setting, but with low light at night (street Halloween parade).  Before exporting from Premiere Pro, I made sone image corrections (increasing exposure, reducing contrats, changing highlights etc.).

I tried to follow the recommendations found in the web :

  1. Format: H.264 (.mp4)
  2. Frame sizes: UHD: 3840 x 2160. ...
  3. Frame rate: match the frame rate of the source video.
  4. Target bitrate: 8 Mbps (45 for 4K)
  5. Bitrate encoding: VBR, 1-pass.
  6. Field order: Progressive. (I cound not find where in the youtube settings of Premiere I could change this)
  7. Aspect: match the aspect of the source video.

But the results look awful (pixelised, and artefacst around people's face) and I decided to delete my exported video from youtube.

Please let me know if I missed something (either in the Gopro setting or in the Premiere settings

If necessary, I could export again the file so that someone can see the results and give proper advice.

 

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    Richard M KnightCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 30, 2023

    Often youtube takes a little while to encode at its best quality, especially 4k footage.

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      fdormoyAuthor
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      November 7, 2023

      Thanks all of you for your comments I think I found the right settings uing mp4 format rather than mov.  I realised that there is no way we could upload a 4K mov file into youtube of 8 minutes.  It would take more than 24 hours with an internet speed of 160 mbs.  Unless you demonstrate that it could be done in a certain way.

      MyerPj
      Community Expert
      MyerPjCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      October 30, 2023

      Which version of PP. (Get it from the HELP/About screen). To find ProRes, you select "Quicktime" in the Format drop-down.

       

      You can export using ProRes LT or even Proxy (selected from the Video Codec option).

       

      Upload that file, and check the quality when done. Put a link for us too...

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        Richard M KnightCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        October 30, 2023

        Are you viewing the exported file directly on your computer or are you watching it streamed from YouTube?

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          fdormoyAuthor
          Known Participant
          October 30, 2023

          Watching the strem on my TV

           

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          fdormoyAuthor
          Known Participant
          October 30, 2023

          Here is the link.  You will see that the quality is awful.  Any suggestion ?  I wanted to follow the suggestion from R. Neil, but I dont have ProRes 422 in my list of available format.  Any reason why ?

          R Neil Haugen
          R Neil Haugen
          Legend
          October 30, 2023

          What's that look like if you export say a ProRes 422 file, view that?

          Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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          fdormoyAuthor
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          October 30, 2023

          I will try.  Thanks

           

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