Web 4K

[Luke Kokinos]

So, I did a demo reel for my RED One. Up to this point, I've shot entirely at 1080. But now, YouTube has 4K settings, and I'd like to use that for my web distribution. However, I was messing around in CS6 and I found that I have no idea how to export in 4K. If anyone could shoot me a few pointers on this, that'd be pretty great.

 

[Les Dittert]

Youtube dumbed down it's 4k to 2k not that long ago.

 

[Luke Kokinos]

Why am I not surprised?

 

[Clovis Ong]

still, im curious to know the optimum youtube export settings for Premiere Pro cs6. I'm trying to obtain the vaunted "Original" setting on youtube. I've so far exported Quicktime Prores 4444 at 4480 x1920 resolution but youtube encodes it to maximum 1080p settings.

Any ideas how to get that "original" option?

 

[Maik Müller]

Try 4096*2160 or 3840*2160.

 

[Luke Kokinos]

What format?

 

[Phil Holland]

YouTube still supports 4K video files. However, their new HTML5 player does not support 4K playback yet.

Check and see if you are in the HTML5 player beta by clicking here: http://www.youtube.com/html5

This is one of my videos, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX_i_w_kL9Q. It can be played back at 4K Original resolution.

 

[Nathaniel Kramer]

Phil, its actually NOT playing back at 4k. right click on vid to get playback setiings and you will see its actually 2048x 1536... I thought the same as you when i uploaded 4k source files a while back... but, yes it sill looks better than 1080/1920, but its a far cry from 4k playback

 

[Davud Karadag]

Hi Phil,

Your videos look great! Can I ask what your preferred export settings are for 4k uploads to YouTube?

 

[BRANDON JAMESON]

Phil,

The noise at 1:52 in the shadows is pronounced and it doesnt seem to be a low-light set-up.

Does that happen with Scarlet often?

 

[Phil Holland]

Phil, its actually NOT playing back at 4k. right click on vid to get playback setiings and you will see its actually 2048x 1536... I thought the same as you when i uploaded 4k source files a while back... but, yes it sill looks better than 1080/1920, but its a far cry from 4k playback

Oh crap. You're right. Damn.

Hi Phil,

Your videos look great! Can I ask what your preferred export settings are for 4k uploads to YouTube?

I think these were single pass or two pass h.264 at around 36Mbps exported through Adobe Media Encoder.

Phil,

The noise at 1:52 in the shadows is pronounced and it doesnt seem to be a low-light set-up.

Does that happen with Scarlet often?

It's a web encode thing cause that shot doesn't do that here or when we projected it. I was pretty confused by it to. I should encode that again.