BEST EXPORT SETTINGS in Premiere Pro CC Export FAST With Hardware Encoding
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In this video editing tutorial, Will teaches you how to create the best export settings in several different scenarios, as well as how to enable the hardware encoding option to speed up your exporting! Our tests showed that hardware encoding speeds our renders up by almost 4 times!
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Welcome back to another video. In this one, we're going to talk about the best export settings inside Premiere Pro CC and I'm also going to talk about the new hardware encoding feature for exporting videos much faster. It takes advantage of your GPU. So let's get started!
Let's say you've finished your edit.You've said you're in and out points and you've started to go to the export settings and you're not really sure what export settings you want. You could be exporting for YouTube, or you may have limited hard drive space and you want to save your files in a format that allows for really small file sizes, while also maintaining a higher quality.
There are, of course, many other reasons why you may want certain settings when you're exporting. So in this video, we'll focus on three formats that I typically use for the videos that I create.
Let's first start off with the format H264. You've probably heard about this before. It is, as I would say, the most commonly used codec. This one will compress your files pretty well and will give you a somewhat small file size. However, the quality will be affected to some degree.
Let's select that one. There are a bunch of presets that come with Premiere Pro, such as the YouTube ones, or you know the high quality versions. They will work fine, however, I like to save my own presets, and that is why I know exactly the settings that I'm using so that I get the results that I want every single time. So let's go to Match Source, High Bit-rate, and then we'll change some settings down there. So if you're exporting at 1080p which is 1920x1080, you can leave that as is and then make sure the frame rate matches the source footage you're working with; or your sequence settings. For the field order, we can keep it at progressive aspect ratio square, and then we want to make sure that render at maximum depth is selected, and then also use maximum render quality.
In recent versions of Premiere Pro, they introduced the hardware encoding performance setting, and when hardware encoding is selected, this will allow you to export your files much quicker. In order to get hardware encoding, you have to make sure that the settings below here are set to either 1-pass or CBR. Let's change it to CBR (constant bitrate) which is essentially the quality per second. Ultimately if you set this number high, you'll have larger file size and if you set it low you'll have a lower file size.
Alright! Since we're exporting 1080p footage, I will typically set this to around 26. Some other editors may prefer a lower number or a higher number but I find that if I set it higher than this, I don't really notice a difference. However, if I set it to lower then I will start to notice a difference in the shadows or during fades or transitions. So for 1080p, that will be good. If you're exporting at 4k, then you can change it to 3840 x 2160; and in that case, because of the higher resolution, you would then need to increase your bitrate.
So I would just go all the way to 50 and then for the audio tab. I normally just set it to AAC 48 000 Hz and stereo with the audio quality set to high, with 320 kbps; and then from there I'd save a preset by clicking on the Preset button, and then I would give it a specific name. So 4k 23.97, and then I'd make another preset with the 1080 settings.
Now, as I mentioned the H.264 codec is really really common. It does a pretty good job of compression. However, the quality isn't as good. So if you are working on projects where you need to keep the best quality you possible, you should probably consider a different codec. I would choose a format that can work with Pro-res. So, in that case, I would go down to QuickTime, and then once again we're not going to select a preset, we will make our own.
So we'll go down to the Video tab section, and under video codec, we will choose pro-res 422 HQ, and then once again we'll do a 3840 x 2160 4k resolution. We'll make sure that render at maximum depth is selected. We'll keep our export color space at REC 709. In the Video tab, this is all you need to set up because the apple prores codec is a really high-quality codec. But it will make very large file sizes, so only use this if you need the highest quality you can get and you have a lot of hard drive space. At the bottom, we'll select use maximum render quality. In the audio tab, we'll keep everything at default, and we can export that preset as well.
Now I'll show you the third way of exporting that I use which is typically for Instagram stories or TikTok videos, and that will be the Kodak H.265. You can consider this as the modern-day version of the H.264 codec. It's a much better codec than the H.264 in terms of compression. It keeps file sizes small while keeping the quality of the video really high.
When it was first announced a few years ago, people were saying that it has a better compression than H.264, while it'll keep your quality like pro-res. After I've tested it quite a bit, it does depend on the bit rate you set. So if you set a really low bit rate, of course, you're not going to have footage that has that quality you'd expect from pro-res.
Before we make an H265 preset, I want to say that this codec is really process-heavy. It will make your computer work really hard. You'll hear the fans go on most likely, so if you're exporting videos using H.265 and then editing them later it's going to be a tougher codec to work with. It might playback a little more choppy and if you're not using a really high-end computer it'll probably take a little longer to export as well.
All right, so let's select the h.265 we'll keep it at 1080p. We'll check to render at maximum depth, and once again we do have hardware encoding, so this specific codec just like H.264 can take advantage of your graphics card to export things much quicker. Under bit-rate encoding, we'll change it to constant bit-rate we'll set the quality to higher. For the bit-rate, as you'll remember for the H.264 codec preset we made, we set it to 26. However for H.265 because it's so good at compressing into smaller file sizes while also maintaining a high quality for this one I only set it to around 12 which isn't even half the bitrate of what we set H.264. Because the codec is so good at compression, the footage quality will stay high. If we're doing 4k, I would set the 3840 x 2160. We'd keep rendering at maximum depth enable hardware encoding if your graphics card allows it.
At constant bit-rate, I find 20 to be enough but you can set it to the max 25, and then you could save your 4k preset. Since I used H.265 for exporting videos for Instagram or TikTok, I would keep things at just 1080p. As you'll notice I flip them so the width is 1080 and the height is 1920, which gives me the vertical display which is what TikTok and Instagram prefer now. Of course, this clip was shot horizontally, so if I wanted it to fill the full vertical frame I'd have to scale in. For YouTube, I typically use the settings we created in H264 or the prores settings we created in QuickTime. If you have a lot of hard drive space, you can use the pro-res version as that will be the highest quality. However, for most people, H.264 will be more than enough for YouTube.
So those are the best settings to use in Premiere Pro for exporting videos. If you haven't updated to the recent versions of Premiere Pro, I would suggest you do so that to take advantage of the hardware encoding and tap into your graphics card's potential.
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