- Adobe Premiere Pro User Guide
- Beta releases
- Getting started
- Hardware and operating system requirements
- Creating projects
- Workspaces and workflows
- Frame.io
- Import media
- Importing
- Importing from Avid or Final Cut
- File formats
- Working with timecode
- Editing
- Edit video
- Sequences
- Create and change sequences
- Set In and Out points in the Source Monitor
- Add clips to sequences
- Rearrange and move clips
- Find, select, and group clips in a sequence
- Remove clips from a sequence
- Change sequence settings
- Edit from sequences loaded into the Source Monitor
- Simplify sequences
- Rendering and previewing sequences
- Working with markers
- Add markers to clips
- Create markers in Effect Controls panel
- Set default marker colors
- Find, move, and delete markers
- Show or hide markers by color
- View marker comments
- Copy and paste sequence markers
- Sharing markers with After Effects
- Source patching and track targeting
- Scene edit detection
- Cut and trim clips
- Video
- Audio
- Overview of audio in Premiere Pro
- Edit audio clips in the Source Monitor
- Audio Track Mixer
- Adjusting volume levels
- Edit, repair, and improve audio using Essential Sound panel
- Enhance Speech
- Enhance Speech FAQs
- Audio Category Tagging
- Automatically duck audio
- Remix audio
- Monitor clip volume and pan using Audio Clip Mixer
- Audio balancing and panning
- Advanced Audio - Submixes, downmixing, and routing
- Audio effects and transitions
- Working with audio transitions
- Apply effects to audio
- Measure audio using the Loudness Radar effect
- Recording audio mixes
- Editing audio in the timeline
- Audio channel mapping in Premiere Pro
- Use Adobe Stock audio in Premiere Pro
- Overview of audio in Premiere Pro
- Text-Based Editing
- Advanced editing
- Best Practices
- Video Effects and Transitions
- Overview of video effects and transitions
- Effects
- Transitions
- Titles, Graphics, and Captions
- Properties panel
- Essential Graphics panel (24.x and earlier)
- Overview of the Essential Graphics panel
- Create a title
- Linked and Track Styles
- Working with style browser
- Create a shape
- Draw with the Pen tool
- Align and distribute objects
- Change the appearance of text and shapes
- Apply gradients
- Add Responsive Design features to your graphics
- Speech to Text
- Download language packs for transcription
- Working with captions
- Check spelling and Find and Replace
- Export text
- Speech to Text FAQs
- Motion Graphics panel (24.x and earlier)
- Best Practices: Faster graphics workflows
- Retiring the Legacy Titler FAQs
- Upgrade Legacy titles to Source Graphics
- Fonts and emojis
- Animation and Keyframing
- Compositing
- Color Correction and Grading
- Overview: Color workflows in Premiere Pro
- Color Settings
- Auto Color
- Get creative with color using Lumetri looks
- Adjust color using RGB and Hue Saturation Curves
- Correct and match colors between shots
- Using HSL Secondary controls in the Lumetri Color panel
- Create vignettes
- Looks and LUTs
- Lumetri scopes
- Display Color Management
- Timeline tone mapping
- HDR for broadcasters
- Enable DirectX HDR support
- Exporting media
- Collaborative editing
- Collaboration in Premiere Pro
- Get started with collaborative video editing
- Create Team Projects
- Add and manage media in Team Projects
- Invite and manage collaborators
- Share and manage changes with collaborators
- View auto saves and versions of Team Projects
- Manage Team Projects
- Linked Team Projects
- Frequently asked questions
- Long form and Episodic workflows
- Working with other Adobe applications
- Organizing and Managing Assets
- Improving Performance and Troubleshooting
- Set preferences
- Reset and restore preferences
- Recovery Mode
- Working with Proxies
- Check if your system is compatible with Premiere Pro
- Premiere Pro for Apple silicon
- Eliminate flicker
- Interlacing and field order
- Smart rendering
- Control surface support
- Best Practices: Working with native formats
- Knowledge Base
- Known issues
- Fixed issues
- Fix Premiere Pro crash issues
- Unable to migrate settings after updating Premiere Pro
- Green and pink video in Premiere Pro or Premiere Rush
- How do I manage the Media Cache in Premiere Pro?
- Fix errors when rendering or exporting
- Troubleshoot issues related to playback and performance in Premiere Pro
- Set preferences
- Extensions and plugins
- Video and audio streaming
- Monitoring Assets and Offline Media
Export mode
You can export completed videos quickly and easily with a focus on content destinations using optimized render settings for popular social platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook or Twitter using the Export mode in Premiere Pro.
In addition to exporting directly from Premiere Pro, you can send exporting jobs to Adobe Media Encoder, a stand-alone encoding application. All settings and presets from the Export mode in Premiere Pro is transferred to Adobe Media Encoder queue for batch exporting.
Exporting via Media Encoder means rendering happens in the background so you can continue working in Premiere Pro. Media Encoder encodes the most recently saved version of each sequence in the queue.
You can send export jobs to Media Encoder in the following ways:
- To send a clip or sequence to Media Encoder from Export mode, select the Send to Media Encoder button.
- To send a clip or sequence directly to Media Encoder choose File > Export > Send to Adobe Media Encoder or use the default keyboard shortcut Opt + Shift + M (macOS) or Alt + Shift + M (Windows). The currently open sequence in the timeline is used by default, but you can also send selected sequences and clips in the Project panel using the same method.
The H.264 Match Source - Adaptive High Bitrate export preset is applied when sending jobs to the Media Encoder queue by default. However, if the sequence or clip has been opened in Export mode or Quick Export previously, the last-used export setting is applied instead.
You can also select a different preset in Media Encoder or edit your export settings using the Export Settings dialog before clicking the Start Queue button to start the export.
Quick Export
You can quicky export a sequence from Premiere Pro using Quick Export. It is a fast and efficient way to export files for various uses and target devices.
Other export options
You can also export files for further editing in other applications, or export still images.
Exporting files for further editing
You can export editable movie or audio files. Then, you can preview your work with effects and transitions fully rendered. Also, you can continue editing the files in applications other than Premiere Pro. Similarly, you can export a still-image sequence. Also, you can export a still image from a single frame of video for use in a title or graphic.
Premiere Pro supports both direct export and Adobe Media Encoder export. Direct export generates new files directly from Premiere Pro. Adobe Media Encoder export sends files to Adobe Media Encoder for rendering. From Adobe Media Encoder, you can choose whether to render an asset immediately, or to add it to a render queue.
Export project files for other systems
You can export project files, not just clips, to AAF files. You can import AAF files into various third-party editing systems for finishing. You can trim Premiere Pro projects down to their essentials and ready them, with or without their source media, for archiving.
Export formats for various devices and websites
Finally, using the Adobe Media Encoder, you can export video in formats suitable for various devices and output formats.
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Do one of the following:
- In a Timeline panel or Program Monitor, select a sequence.
- In a Project panel, Source Monitor, or bin, select a clip.
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Click Export in the header bar or choose File > Export > Media to switch to Export mode.
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(Optional) In Export mode, specify the Source Range of the sequence or clip you want to export. Drag the handles on the timeline. Then click the Set In Point button and Set Out Point button.
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To crop the image, specify cropping options in the Source panel.
Cropping on export is currently only available in Adobe Media Encoder.
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Select the file format you want for your exported file.
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(Optional) Select a preset best suited for your target means of playback, distribution, and audience. Premiere Pro has presets for Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, and YouTube.
Note:To automatically export a file from a Premiere Pro sequence with settings that exactly match the settings for that sequence, select Match Sequence Settings in Export mode.
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To customize the export options, click a heading (for example, Video, Audio) and specify the appropriate options.
Note:Previously, custom destinations were saved per sequence with no easy way to share them with other sequences and projects. You can add, edit, and retain a single set of custom destinations in Export mode. Open a sequence or clip in Export mode and set up multiple customized destinations – now available globally.
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Do one of the following:
- Click Send to Media Encoder. Adobe Media Encoder opens with the encoding job added to its queue.
- Click Export. Premiere Pro renders and exports the item immediately.
By default, Adobe Media Encoder saves the exported file in the folder where the source file is located. Adobe Media Encoder appends the extension for the format specified to the end of the filename. You can specify watched folders for various types of exported files.
For more information about using the various settings in the Export Settings dialog box, see Export Settings reference.
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