Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 Basics | Home Edition (Win
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
    • Introduction
  • Installing Premiere Pro on your PC
    • Checking if your computer meets minimum system requirements
    • Installing Premiere Pro
  • Setting up your project
    • Creating a project folder
    • Copying media files from a Canon video camera into your project folder
    • Copying media files from an iPad/ iPhone into your project folder
    • Copying media files from a video camera SD card into your project folder
    • Copying media files from a still camera SD card into your project folder
    • Copying WAV files from a Zoom H2n to your project folder
    • Downloading media files from YouTube to your project folder
    • Downloading free music to your project folder
    • Previewing and renaming clips in Finder
    • Opening Premiere
    • Creating a Premiere project
  • Importing and logging clips
    • Importing media files
    • Creating and working with proxy files
    • Previewing clips in the Source monitor
    • Renaming clips in the Project panel
    • Creating a sequence
    • Logging your video
    • Writing a script
    • Recording narration
    • Adding In and Out points to a clip
  • Editing in the Timeline panel
    • Building a story in your sequence
    • Viewing your project in the Program monitor
    • Adding a clip to your sequence
    • Adding a subclip to your sequence
    • Adding an image to your sequence
    • Adding an audio file to your sequence
    • Arranging items in your sequence
    • Trimming or extending an item in your sequence
    • Deleting an item in your sequence
    • Zooming in and out
    • Muting timeline audio scrubbing
  • Working with audio
    • Using mute and solo controls
    • Centering audio channels
    • Adjusting the audio level of an individual clip
    • Adjusting the audio level of all clips in a track
    • Changing the duration of a dissolve or audio fade
    • Automating clip volume with keyframes
  • Adding text and transitions
    • Downloading a JAMS Text Template to Your Project Folder
    • Opening a JAMS Text Template
    • Adding a JAMS Text Template to Your Sequence
    • Working with Text in a JAMS Text Template
    • Adding the Media Milwaukee End Screen to Your Sequence
    • Adding a cross disolve
    • Adding a dip to black transition
  • Exporting
    • Exporting a still image from your sequence
    • Exporting an MP4
  • Troubleshooting
    • Panels are in Weird Places
    • A Panel is Missing or Looks Different
    • One Panel is Super Large and It's the Only Thing You See in Premiere
    • Media files are in your project folder but they don't appear in the import window
  • Glossary
    • Glossary
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  • Normal quality MP4 (faster encode time)
  • High quality MP4 (longer encode time)

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  1. Exporting

Exporting an MP4

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You’ll export an MP4 file as your finished product. You can upload this MP4 file to YouTube.

Normal quality MP4 (faster encode time)

  1. Important: Make sure the Timeline panel selected before exporting your video. To select the Timeline panel, click within Timeline panel. When selected, the Timeline panel will have a blue border around it.

  2. Go to File on the menu bar. Select Export. From the fly-out menu, select Media. The Export dialog box will appear.

  3. In the Source Range drop-down list (lower-left), select Entire Sequence.

  4. In the Format drop-down list, select H.264. Note: Do not select H.264 Blueray.

  5. In the Preset drop-down list, select YouTube 1080p HD.

  6. To specify the name and location of your MP4, click the link text next to Output Name. A Save As dialog box will appear. In the Name field, rename your video. Note: Do not click Save at this point.

  7. In the Save As dialog box Where field, . Click Save. Note: Do not change the File Format in the Save As dialog box.

  8. Click Export.

High quality MP4 (longer encode time)

  1. Important: Make sure the Timeline panel selected before exporting your video. To select the Timeline panel, click within Timeline panel. When selected, the Timeline panel will have a blue border around it.

  2. Go to File on the menu bar. Select Export. From the fly-out menu, select Media. The Export dialog box will appear.

  3. In the Source Range drop-down list (lower-left), select Entire Sequence.

  4. In the Format drop-down list, select H.264. Note: Do not select H.264 Blueray.

  5. In the Preset drop-down list, select YouTube 1080p HD.

  6. To specify the name and location of your MP4, click the link text next to Output Name. A Save As dialog box will appear. In the Name field, rename your video. Note: Do not click Save at this point.

  7. In the Save As dialog box Where field, . Click Save. Note: Do not change the File Format in the Save As dialog box.

  8. In the Video tab, scroll to Bitrate Settings. In the Bitrate Encoding drop-down list, choose VBR, 2 pass. Note: At this point the Preset drop-down list will display Custom. This is normal.

  9. Click Export.

navigate to and select your project folder
navigate to and select your project folder