

The YouTube thumbnail is so important that many of the world's most popular YouTubers will come up with a thumbnail idea before they shoot any video. This will serve as the icon or mini-billboard for our video. Last but not least, we're now able to add a custom thumbnail for our video. You want to think in terms of search and SEO with these tags. We can also add the relevant tags for our video so that our video has a better chance of being found on YouTube. I'd recommend making this private if you're going to go back on the actual YouTube platform and update things like titles, keywords, or thumbnails at a later date. Next, you can specify whether you want this video to be public, unlisted, or private on YouTube. The description section is where you can insert the overview for your video along with any links and other relevant information. This is also important because you want YouTube's algorithm to have all of the correct info about your video as soon as possible, rather than updating a title after it's posted. Choosing a playlist on your YouTube channel to export your video toĪdditionally, you'll want to add a well-crafted and researched title. Starting with the playlist ( Figure 2, below), you can add said video to a playlist on YouTube so that your video gets categorized with other relevant content on your channel.įigure 2. Now, the next few options are really important to the success of your video and these are things that YouTube highly recommends in optimizing your videos for their platform. Note that you can add multiple channels, so this really comes in handy if you're posting to several different client channels. From the top down we'll see the status of our login and also the channel that we want to send the video to. We'll scroll down to the YouTube section of this panel. Some take a few steps, but overall it's a pretty easy process.

Now, you'll have to connect any of these accounts if you haven't already. Navigate over to the Publish tab and you will see the list of several platforms and apps where Premiere Pro can distribute your video ( Figure 1, below), including Facebook, Vimeo, Twitter, YouTube, and more. The Publish feature can be found in the Export settings when your video is ready for posting. With YouTube being the largest online video library out there, Premiere Pro has made it really efficient to get your video from Premiere Pro to YouTube with a few clicks. This release came out in 2018, so these features are available now. This tutorial explores the new YouTube export options in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019.
