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lysiac46077766
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May 22, 2017
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Export settings for max quality?

  • May 22, 2017
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Hi all - I'm a Premiere Pro newbie. I have a video that I'm trying to export with as little loss as possible. It's 59.94 fps. Just ran latest PP update. Have tried lots of settings but everything's coming out slightly fuzzy with color/richness loss. MOV, MPEG, MP4, jacked bitrate all the way up, max rendering, matched the framerate, etc. The final video will be for YouTube and Facebook - need as high-def as possible. Even the uncompressed MOV did not look nearly as clean or rich as the original. And it was 50gb (<3 mins) so even if it was pristine I'm not sure I could ever get it uploaded to YT (I tried but had a glitch after 9 hrs & it stopped at only 42%).

YT had a very generous size limit and FB allows 4GB max. Also suddenly the MOV export option has disappeared. I'm hoping a computer reboot will help but TBD (I don't have access to the computer right now).

If anyone can layout what settings I should try I'd be majorly appreciative!

Any more info you need from me?

thanks so much

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    excited_Genie16B8
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    May 22, 2017

    I recommend exporting DNx for YouTube.  I think the final quality comes out a little better than H.264 uploads.

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    May 22, 2017

    For YouTube & Facebook ... you don't need nearly the high-def you'd need for a theatre project. So ... perhaps you're not understanding what you really need.

    Have you tried the basic YouTube presets that ship with PrPro? Those generally do a great job.

    Next ... as to how are you viewing those files? If you're using QuickTime player, well ... no, that's not going to be great. Period.

    So ... lets start with your media. What are the frame-sizes & rates, and what cameras or devices made the media? What sequence setting are you using, and a screen-grab of your Sequence Settings dialog box is probably the best way to show that ... you can drop a png from you desktop on the reply box (the Windows Snipping Tool works great for this) or use the flower icon in the middle of your reply box formatting bar to navigate to a pic on your computer & include that.

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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    lysiac46077766Author
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    May 22, 2017

    Thanks for the reply.

    I know YouTube especially runs its own compression so I wanted to make sure to start with as high-res/clean a video as I could manage.

    For one of my export tests I did try starting with the HD YouTube preset but then changed the framerate to 59.94, changed profile to high, selected render at maximum depth, for encoding chose VBR 2 pass, bumped up the target & maximum bitrate, and selected use maximum render quality.

    I was using QT to view it! I switched to iTunes and it definitely played cleaner.

    Video is a mix of 1080p 60fps drone footage and still images (plus text).

    Here are my sequence settings - I didn't change any of them when I started this project...

    Thanks again!!

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
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    May 22, 2017

    Render at maximum depth helps with heavy color correction work and particularly 10-bit files. I don't suggest using it for most "normal" work. For your YouTube, I doubt it will help, and it will slow things down. That and Max Render Quality are normally as well skipped as used. But again, test ... after it's delivered to the intended use ... here, Youtube ... can you tell a clear difference? If not, skip them.

    VBR 2-pass is another setting that is often advised against these days. Back when computers had to work harder to do the basic computation, it was needed for many things. These days, again ... test ... and if you can't see a clear difference watching on YouTube, skip the 2-pass. It just slows your computer down for little to no gain.

    How much did you jump the bit-rate from the preset? Again, test that ... a bit might help, too much ... is a waste of time & bandwidth.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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