Exporting a Premiere Pro Project When you reach the point where you are ready to export your project, firstly make sure that you’re work area is fully selected with the open and close area selectors.
These selectors decide exactly where to start and finish your exported clip, this is one of the most common mistakes students make – so be extra careful. While “Timeline : Sequence 01” or whatever your sequence is called is selected – we move onto File>Export>Export Media
This should bring up a new window with many confusing looking options. Don’t Panic!
Exporting Video Lets start at the top-right of this box and work down. The first drop-down “Format” chooses which file-type you want your video to be. You will probably only ever need a video for YouTube or a video for your blog [a YouTube file-type is an acceptable type to use for a final coursework hand in to a teacher].
For YouTube : choose MPEG2
For a blog upload : choose Windows Media
The reason they are different, is because MPEG2 is a HD high quality versatile video format, and Windows Media is a low quality and small file-size video – excellent for streaming online. This should change a few settings around and move a few boxes in your menu, it’s just the software changing the options available for different formats. In the next drop-down box marked “Preset”, you’ll choose “HDTV 720p 25 High Quality”. This is because its a HD video, its 720p x 1280p [height x width], its 25 fps [all these you chose at the beginning when you set up your project], and you want it high quality.
The next box we’ll look at is the “Output Name”. This is the orange coloured writing, by clicking this a “Save As” box appears. Here you choose the folder where you want to save your work, and what you wish to call your finished video. There isn’t really a specific name you should call any video you export from Premiere, however if it’s a final coursework video to be handed in please name it as the first initial and surname of all your group members, followed by your project title. e.g; M Frost B Breary S Brennan G Kerr – SONG or FILM TITLE.mpg
All group members
What your piece is named
filetype
After typing this in press “Save” to go back to the menu screen. All of your settings should now be correct by default, so as long as Export Video and Export Audio are both ticked in the boxes, you can press OK at the bottom.
This leads us to the final step of the process, Adobe Media Encoder. Finally, we come to the last step of the process. As long as all your settings were correct in Adobe Premiere, all you really need to do here is press “Start Queue”. You CANNOT close your Adobe Premiere Project while your video is exporting. I’d recommend just locking your computer and leaving it to it. Put a post-it note on the screen saying “Exporting” so nobody turns your machine off, or sit and watch it to make sure.
Once exported, your video should be found in the folder you assigned it to in Adobe Premiere when you clicked the orange writing on the Export Menu. If you can’t find it, go back to the Export Menu as if you were exporting it again – click the orange writing to change the file’s title just like before and see which folder you end up in – it should be the same location you just saved too.
Exporting Audio/Radio For Radio Projects, you will still need to export from Adobe Premiere using File>Export>Export Media. But we need to change our Format to either MP3 or WINDOWS WAVEFORM [.wav].
You’ll notice that this blanks out the Export Video tickbox beneath. We follow the same process as with video now, by clicking the orange text under “Output Name” and changing it to where and what we wish to save our file as. For coursework pieces, save like this example; M Frost B Breary S Brennan G Kerr – Project Title.wav In other words, the first initial and surname of all your group members, followed by your project title. Then just like with video, Media Encoder will load up, and you just press “Start Queue”.