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Optimal settings for rendering 1080p files for YouTube
Greetings,
I searched around on this topic, and couldn’t find an answer. I’m fairly new to Premiere Pro (Mac) – I’ve been using Premiere Elements for Windows.
I used my Canon 5D Mark II and 7D to produce 1080p video content for YouTube. In Premiere Elements, it was very simple to render and upload 1080p output for YouTube in small, high-quality files. In Premiere Pro however, it’s more challenging. While there is a setting to render YouTube files in 1080p, the rendered output is HUGE – my typical video length is 10-15 minutes, and the file size generated from PP usually well exceeds the YouTube 2GB limit….not to mention being a pain to upload.
So I was hoping this community had some tips for the optimal settings in PP to accomplish this task?
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John, what is the preset you are using, exactly? Please check the preset settings: video resolution, fps, target and max encoding rate.
Bottom line, Pr/AME standard YouTube preset should not produce huge files – at its target bitrate of 6Mbit/s, a 10 minute video should be around 450MB if my calculations are correct.
I just checked my Pr (and AME) CS5 and the only Youtube preset I could find was H.264/YouTube WideScreen HD and it’s 1-pass 720p24 with 6/9Mbs target/max bitrate.
Did I miss a 1080p one? If not, I’d change the standard preset to 1920×1080 2-pass leaving other settings intact. If your video is relatively complex (amount of detail, scene changing and motion), I’d change the max rate to 12MBit/s. The encoded 10-minute file should be between 450MB and about 1GB.
(3 Mbit/s has been the optimal 720p30 bitrate on the average for me in 2009; 1080p is roughly twice the bandwidth; I’d shoot for 6 Mbit/s target and 12Mbit/s max bit-rate.)
Alex (DV411)
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Optimal?
1080p, around 8-10 mb/s, h.264 VBR, 2 pass…at 15 min, that’ll give you around the 1 gig size.
And if the file is big? The bigger it is, the less compressed it is….and that works, to a point.
Youtube does have advanced Java uploader that permits you to have larger resumable uploads.
Best,
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