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Adobe Premiere Pro 2025 Basics | Windows Edition
  • Introduction
  • Setting up your project
    • Connecting your project folder SD card
    • Creating a project folder
    • Backing up your 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
    • Renaming MTS files
    • Opening Premiere
    • Creating a Premiere project
  • Importing and logging clips
    • Importing media 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 an image to your sequence
    • Adding an audio clip 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
    • Audio Sounds Like It's in an Auditorium
  • 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 File Name field, enter a name for your exported file.

  4. In the Location area, click the blue hyperlink to set the location for the exported file. If necessary, .

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

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

  7. In the Range drop-down list (beneath video preview), select Entire Sequence.

  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 File Name field, enter a name for your exported file.

  4. In the Location area, click the blue hyperlink to set the location for the exported file. If necessary, .

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

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

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

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

  9. In the Video section, click the chevron icon to see all available Video settings.

  10. In the Video section, scroll down to Bitrate Settings. In the Bitrate Encoding drop-down list, choose VBR, 2 pass.

  11. In the Range drop-down list (beneath video preview), select Entire Sequence.

  12. Click Export.

navigate to and select your project folder
navigate to and select your project folder
Exporting a high quality MP4.