How to Export a Premier Project to YouTube

Adobe Premiere has a preset for export for upload to YouTube.

YouTube, as of mid-2011, is the third most popular Web destination behind Google and Facebook. When you upload your videos to YouTube, you make them available to millions of viewers. Though you can upload video to YouTube in a variety of formats, such as AVI, MOV and FLV, you should use the MPEG-4 H.264 compression for the file. Adobe Premiere Pro has a preset specifically to export video for YouTube upload.

Instructions

1. Open Adobe Premiere Pro. Click "New Project" in the Welcome screen to create a new project or "Open Project" to open an existing project.

2. Click your sequence in the Asset Bin to highlight it, Click "File," "Export" and select "Media."

3. Click the "Format" drop-down menu and select "H.264." Click the "Preset" drop-down menu and select "YouTube" or "YouTube HD." Click the Output Name and navigate to the location on your drive where you want to save the file. Enter a new file name and click "Save." Click "OK" in the Export Settings window. The Adobe Media Encoder launches.

4. Highlight the project in the Queue window and click "Start Queue." You can see a preview of the exported video as it encodes and saves to your hard drive.

References

• Adobe Premiere Pro CS4: Export a File for Web Delivery
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS4: Workflow for Exporting Files
• Adobe Media Encoder CS4: Adobe Media Encoder Workspace
• Alexa: Top Sites

Resources

• Adobe: Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5