My SECRET for Higher Quality Instagram Reels! Export Settings + Camera Settings | Premiere Pro

[@Henbu]

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[@Codyflips]

Not allowing me to imput my email can I have a link to the course I need to buy

[@phucmapvlog]

Much appreciation for the “High-Quality” uploads tip. I had no idea it was turned off!

[@Aiaerial]

Do you know exactly what format High Quality uploads is in compared to not being toggled? Is it 720p

[@jep6752]

I don't see this in my settings

[@fuzzyfps5644]

@@jep6752 it's an iPhone exclusive feature

[@jep6752]

@@fuzzyfps5644 ohhh 😊 thanks

[@kennyloggings]

I've seen a few comments on the "upload higher quality" setting not showing up for them. It's an iOS vs Android thing. Android has the same setting it's just worded in a confusing way. Go to Settings - Account - Celluar Data Settings - Toggle Data Saver On (that's the confusing part) - then click high resolution media - turn on at least "wifi only" or "wifi + celluar". Typical of Android it actually gives you more control over whether to do it only when you're on wifi or all the time, but it's not as easy to understand or navigate too. Hope this helps!

[@J.Polyakov]

I think that is actually an option to help you save cellular data by not preloading videos and only loading videos that you pat to see. It doesnt have anything to do with uploads. I think on android you dont have that option. Either it is set like that by default or it cant be changed? I dont know really but this seems not to be the same option as on the iPhone

[@LifeOfMikey1]

@@J.Polyakov exactlyyyyy. they are 2 different things

[@thekamleshparihar]

Now can i upload i quality videos on insta

[@allenjesis]

now high quality upload feature is available in Android too.

[@AntonGor_]

Thanks for posting this🤙🏻

[@DanielMendoza-qq5pv]

05:55 You actually can. I airdrop it if using my iMac and the resolution stays in 2160. Then I just upload straight to Instagram

[@jaimeaguilar94]

The quality doesn’t stay at 2k tho, Indy’s only allows 1080 p😅

[@erikthompson3865]

So my question is, based on these parameters/scenarios: -GoPro/Iphone/Drone footage in 4K (framerate between 30 and 60) -Instagram (allegedly) only allows 1080p/30 So, what would be better, editing a compilation/reel in premiere pro, using the sequence settings (4k/60) and then letting instagram convert it... OR Using premiere pro's exporting function to convert and output it to 1080p/30 and then going to instagram... I would assume using a dedicated and very sophisticated software will give more quality downgrading to 1080p vs letting instagram's engine do it. But, figure'd id leave this here for any people who may have done some actual comparisons.

[@jagoclift3153]

Am here for the reply

[@Roysphotos8]

Same

[@yekane]

yup, def waiting as well

[@Roysphotos8]

@@yekane film however u want. 4k is going to be more flexible for editing. but when u render, render at 1080p and for the bit rate target a filsize of 15mb. that should be solid.

[@yekane]

@@Roysphotos8 greatly appreciate it ima try this soon

[@theelifloresshow]

I use to be able to air drop my 4:22 4k footage until one day it stopped working. So once I export my 4k video I open up Adobe rush and export it in 4k on my desktop and airdrop it to my phone. So it’ll stay 4k. Takes only a minute. Lmk what y’all think.

[@guanchu]

But do you upload your video on 4k directly to Instagram?

[@Gam3rKillz]

Always struggled with the same thing - deciding whether to shoot vertical or horizontal. Used to shoot vertical but now I try to shoot horizontal and just pay attention to the framing in case I decide to crop it in post

[@WatermanSurin]

Why not make the sequence settings 1080 x 1920 and then scale your clips accordingly? Is there a difference in export quality if done that way?

[@Roysphotos8]

This i would like to know

[@94srikanth]

There will be no difference in quality. Its the same

[@billlanagan2320]

for workflow efficiency. You could scale each clip on a 1080 timeline, or you could drop each clip in their actual resolution, then export the whole project in 1080.

[@DocRock]

Fam I do 4K vertical on my iPhone everyday. the difference is I use FCP so it's prolly a preimer setting. I ecport 10-bit HEVC h.265 becsue it is hella fast on M1 processors.

[@Kurtmcgirt]

My thought on Vert/Horz. You can also trim horizontal to vertical (as long as your wide enough). You can never make vertical into horizontal/wide.

[@mcintosh.motors]

Only though if you shoot in something like 4:3; gives you much more vertical video from originally horizontal footage. There’s just not enough vertical information on 16:9 unless you’re miles away from your subject

[@jasonnowwhat5041]

Tip for those needing to shoot vertical for clients….I’m camera agnostic but I truly think Panasonic has done it right. Instead of putting a mounting hole on the side of their camera (Canon) they allow us to shoot 5.7-6k open gate with vertical frame markers. This allows the shooter to keep their camera in a normal configuration while shooting, but see what the content will look like vertically so composition and framing are in check. Of your business counts on it, it might not be a bad idea to pick up a used S5 body just to have in the toolkit.

[@retrorealtorteam]

Good to know

[@justmecase]

still suffers from compression. i recently got the ninja V+ and i have the lumix gh6. shooting 5.8k open gate and then cropping is not nearly as powerful as getting a vertical mount for your camera/tripod

[@Houstnwehavuhoh]

Hey! So the reason you can’t send a 4K 9:16 image to your phone without it saying “save to files” or something like that is actually due to the video Encoding Settings. For 4K 9:16, by default, Premiere changes the encoding level to 6. Which iPhones do not like (for lack of better words). I would recommend changing it to 5.1 or 5.2 (I believe 5.2 is usually better for slowed down footage, definitely double check that). But those are idea levels for phone as well as uploading. Would also recommend changing the profile from “Main” to “High” (passed that isn’t necessary for 4K). Hope that helps!

[@kidmackenzie]

I’m going to have to check that. This has to be a new funky iPhone thing. I was pulling my 4K video from Dropbox and then that didn’t work. My work around was saving them into my files folder which worked fine then I could move them over to my videos.

[@gensendanipog6718]

@@kidmackenzie Give me a follow up on this because I am running into the same issue cant save videos

[@kidmackenzie]

@@gensendanipog6718 Yes!! Checking that the encoding was set to 5.2 I could save a vertical 4k video straight into my photos from Dropbox again

[@sunilchitolie6771]

Hey man so the solution for not being able to get 4K videos on the iphone has a simple fix (at-least for me). The fix: In your export settings, go to Video>Encoding Settings>Level. For Level, set this to 5.2. I realize Premiere Pro has this set to 6.0 by default which was the root problem for 4K video not being able to be played on my iPhone. Hope this helps anyone out there. If it helped you PIN this comment

[@jeremyjavellana]

In my experience, IG compresses it still. I’ll lower the VBR target bit rate to reduce the file size, but at a certain point, the video quality is noticeably reduced. I’ve yet to find a clear solution on KZbin or Google.

[@DRC92]

Found the right export settings yet?

[@chrisbowlesy]

Word on the street is that if you get enough followers Instagram give you a higher bit rate and upload quality “allowance”. Hence why all the mainstream photographers/videographers with lots of followers have higher quality uploads than someone with 500 followers that’s still doing all the right steps.

[@rpatel133]

Try exporting in premier pro with apple pro res codec at 4k.

[@morjes152]

@@chrisbowlesy i am starting to believe it ngl. I literally tried all the ways mentioned on Ggl/KZbin smh and my videos after uploading were still ugly

[@chrisbowlesy]

@@morjes152 yeah I’m telling you it’s a thing. I can’t remember who told me, but someone with lots of followers said it in the comments. Once you gain a certain amount of interactions per post/reel and followers, you get a higher quality allowance. Cause if they have everyone high quality, then all those popular instagrammers won’t be as popular or won’t look as different

[@chapter25]

Hi, if you are going to export as Full HD video, why not set your sequence settings as Full HD? Will there be any difference?

[@jsarahina]

pixel binning and much lesser noise when timeline is 4k and export is 1080p

[@toxik420]

I just edited my first reel following your instructions and it came out really good. Thank you

[@Chrissy411]

Subbing from IG love the shot of the plane ✈️ wow so close but so beautiful

[@Irzaki333]

Can’t wait for the course bro!

[@tigerwittman]

When you export your project with music that you want to use. Do you just try to match up the music with instagrams music for the same so it’s more discoverable?

[@stephennziemi8379]

You can just put the song on Instagram but then lower the volumes of the song on insta and max out the original audio sound

[@AryanNarula]

love you man!

[@jin6000]

"Today I'm actually filming inside my living room..." Ehhhh, pretty sure that's a kitchen there bud. 😂

[@M.A.D.C.J]

This is about to help me so much, waiting for the day one of my reels pops off 😭🙌🏾

[@mayank2564]

i can see your keylight at the right top corner lmao but i love the background

[@justbern15]

if im not mistaken, instagram will be doing a lot of compression for these export settings. They're requiring a smaller resolution and a lower bit rate. So if you export like this, wont it get compressed digitally?

[@hernanbriangarcia]

If you don’t want instagram doing any compression, you need to export at 640X1136. That is instagrams native resolution for vertical videos.

[@froznfire9531]

@@hernanbriangarcia Do you also know the bitrate so it doesnt compress?

[@hernanbriangarcia]

@@froznfire9531 I was watching a video from @whoismatt and I think the native bitrate that instagram plays back video is between a minimum of 2 and maximum of 5.

[@froznfire9531]

@@hernanbriangarcia Thanks man :)

[@Roysphotos8]

Videos then still look so compressed idk of this is better.

[@marionobrega6818]

Thanks mate, really needed this! Been battling to get the quality good enough to post.

[@shrikanthkorlapati8419]

FOR AIRDROP ISSUE with 4K, it will never work. Exporting in level 5.2 will not do the job because if you scroll and see your video info ( its not 4k it will show as 1296x2304). The only way you can get true 4k is when we select level 6. But, unfortunately iPhones don't support at the moment. Gotta live with it.

[@vietnguyenkhac4446]

I have same issue like that. So do you have solution to get full size 2160x3840 and download it into iphone ?

[@definingslawek4731]

@@vietnguyenkhac4446 send it horizontally and then rotate it on iphone

[@brandonhall5155]

Would love to see a video on how to go from your last step in this video to getting the video onto your phone

[@swarnimgawade3587]

to export reels in 4k, I export in H.265 format and then transfer it to my iPhone, that works well!

[@readysvs3173]

What is H.265?

[@swarnimgawade3587]

@@readysvs3173 it’s a video codec

[@julian_elizalde]

for 4k 9:16 video uploads queue your sequence to adobe encoder and should be able to export it from there and then it will work! had the same issue before !

[@sohrabnayyar]

hey, try exporting at h.265 when exporting at a higher res than 1080, it should show on iPhone.

[@ethanpope2131]

Will insta compress it back down to 1080x1920 when you post it

[@adventuresofjandk]

Great tip on turning on high quality uploads. Had no idea that was there.

[@high-chair]

Looking forward to the release of the IG reels course you’re dropping bro! Super awesome content!

[@dhuynh01]

thanks man your channel iis my go to for learning premiere pro !!

[@Jadesfishing]

Dude!!! Thanks for that never knew about the higher quality uploading setting!

[@EricAdeleye]

Excellent video. Is your video tutorial available for sale on your website?

[@giannistagi4860]

Is the course out yet ?? If here where I can get it ?

[@adam_widmer]

Amazing! The quality certainly had a good change, thanks a lot!

[@PeterGilguitar]

Hey man, thanks for the videos! I loved what you said in the last one about finding a way to work with the algorithm without compromising your brand. That's been a struggle for me. You mentioned that you'll cover how to get Instagram reel music into premiere, would you possibly be able to share that? Thanks!

[@adeshekoni5981]

That’s specifically what I came here to this video for.

[@DanielTremsky]

Screen record the audio you liked on the reel - then simply put that recording on premiere and boom!

[@daaddyo1249]

KZbin to mp3 the song, instagram will automatically add it to that audio page

[@saumya.shetye]

I recently got a camera I absolutely love its quality the only thing that is bothering me is that shooting reels with camera gets super hectic for me...i wanted to know how do you transfer your footage from computer to your phone to upload it on instagram.

[@MrJoJoJoJo]

Thanks man, I have been having trouble exporting 4k reel content on my iphone, but I can open them on ipad pro

[@purelife1944]

What frame rate do you use? I read in the Instagram website their minimum frame rate is 30fps. What would happen with 24/25fps uploaded footage? Does it work, choppy?

[@shaji6481]

So this is what I was trying to figure out. Yes, if you upload 24/25 fps footage, it's a bit choppy.

[@WENEXTUPFILMS]

play it on on quick time export it from quick then air drop to your phone will play with no issues

[@osagyefo_jnr]

Nice tutorial, I'll test it right now!

[@DRC92]

Should I just shoot in 1080 then? Or do you recommend still shooting in 4K? And exporting to 1080?

[@DrMichaelVan]

I want to know this answer too

[@RamoneHardy]

Looking forward to the course! Your reels are 🔥🔥

[@LunaticStruggler]

Never knew about the high quality upload setting, but thanks for that

[@mrphoto]

Thanks for sharing your export settings and process. I was able to upload the 4k output to my android phone and into Instagram. The problem I ran into was I could not add audio from their library to the reel. As soon as I exported to 1080p this resolved the issue.

[@JaydenLawson]

5:57 AirDrop 4K file from Mac to iPhone. When it opens in Photos, slide up to reveal file information. Shows "4K - 2160 x 3840 - 124 MB", on an iPhone 12 Mini.

[@gintokigojo]

Did he shoot in 23.97fps or 60fps? Cause the sequence is 23.97 but when henbu is shooting it says 60 fps.

[@902MediaUK]

awesome stuff Henbu 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@badambiente9662]

this helped soooooo much 💯

[@irlzack2370]

How do you export all of your clips to your iPhone? Dropbox, google drive, what?

[@jake3712]

I’m filming on an iPhone 15 Pro Max do you recommend turning off HDR? When filming footage to use.

[@dfilmsme]

Hey, great tutorial, could you tell me how you get to download those trendy sounds ?

[@vallejopnw]

That data useage high quality uploads was the best

[@nanopixel.studio]

I think you may be able to shoot horizontal if you use a mask/s. It should give you the same effect if it's set up right. Just make it a template so you don't have to keep creating it.

[@nathangood24578]

You can certainly get 4k on your phone. After I export to my computer I just airdrop to my iphone and boom! 4k footage

[@tiptop9354]

What a great video, helps A LOT in the beginning.

[@christianek.963]

Filming vertically is FREAKING weird yes.. Learned at school how we should always film horizontally and now I have to reprogram my head to accept both directions

[@Roronoa1062]

Shoot horizontally but yeah keep in mind you will need to crop it 9:16 in post production, make sure to keep the subject in center, do works sometimes when there is not much camera movements. Also we are not much zooming into the video while in post processing so you will not lose Quality.

[@christianek.963]

@@Roronoa1062 True truee! Thankss

[@General111100]

Looking forward for this course, i hope you make tiktok too.

[@icantseeitall]

Sorry for the dumb question, anyway your luts can work on Clog3?

[@kinary313]

Hi, thanks a lot for your video! One question about target bitrate: why do you fix it at 30Mbps specifically? I've read numerous articles that advise to fix it between 2,5 and 4, but I have no idea what the difference is between all this... Hope you can help !

[@BonemysterFPV]

Because he hasnt read those articles.

[@LostinaMemory]

You're absolutely right, it seems like he randomly chose 30mbps. Heck even HD videos on KZbin should be rendered between 12 to 16mbps depending on your frame rate. For instagram you're good with around 2.6mbps.

[@WatermanSurin]

I have been playing around with export settings, and landed at 10-12 as my bit rate - I found that you get decent quality and then instagram does not compress it much more beyond that. However those values were from tests done 1 year ago. If Henbu is currently uploading these high quality reels using 30 mbps then clearly its working for him. With the rise of video content, im sure that instagram's compression threshold is bound to be more forgiving.

[@IceCreamJUSTICE]

8-16 was the best one ive ever worked with

[@Aliyys]

Hello . to start instagram rel video algorithm setting at frequency /bitrate/ 30/more than 30 it compresses and FPS more than 30 also freezes, since it makes no sense to put more than 30 PS. I advise you to enable high-quality upload in the instagram settings (for high-quality upload of your video)

[@Laertesthebarber76]

hey henbu is there a way to install your lightroom presets on lightroom mobile?

[@skye3430]

Can't wait for you to drop the course if you could put your settings for LOG3 and go over sony menu in depth with how to add your luts also after shooting all way the way up to uploading would be awesome.

[@juliaschool331]

thank you for this video, and I used your outputs and it worked! What lens are you using in this video? thanks!

[@TrocasMX]

you can send it to your iphone in full 4k through watsapp document and it will play just fine

[@MrKane1173]

Super helpful. Thanks for posting.

[@SonOvaBoss]

10 bit 4.2.2. is really heavy on my computer, what is your PC setup?

[@surtography]

Awesome video man! Use your LUTS a lot. Could we get a video for exposing and colour grading SLOG3 footage on the A7IV and A7SIII

[@Henbu]

Will be coming soon!

[@skye3430]

A7iii also

[@ahmedosrs]

Dude you best! thanks!❤️

[@kapilsolankieditz51]

Can we do same setting in horizontal videos?

[@9tbiker455]

Is the curs online?

[@aldrianalfonso5638]

you forgot to put it on 30fps. instagram doesn't take 24 fps

[@officialcisko]

Vertical Filming is the best way to get higher quality. That's how I shoot all of my Reels

[@preethibhat_digiartist]

OMG BRO its really work

[@lolo1ofimostate]

Thanks for this!! Can I ask, what camera did you use in making this video? Thanks

[@marekstasiak1402]

Damn! Worked like a charm! Thank you soooo much!

[@SmittytheMC]

Did you post the video about the vertical recording?

[@dreamlikediana]

So I'm going to mention something I tell everyone, the "Higher Quality Uploads" setting in Instagram is only available on Apple products. It's not available off of the Apple ecosystem. I wrote a whole blog post about that pure difference, and luckily I have an iPad to upload with but it leaves out so many creators who don't want to be on Apple's ecosystem at all!

[@PrafulPrasad]

Android has a feature to switch off data saver which is said to essentially do the same thing, use more data to upload higher quality content

[@dreamlikediana]

@@PrafulPrasad I don't use data saver to begin with. Especially when you have 5G+ Unlimited data plan, there's no point. But even still, that doesn't fix things. The quality is slightly better on newer Android models, but it's not the same quality as received on the Apple ecosystem.

[@PrafulPrasad]

@@dreamlikediana yea thats true it doesnt really work as good as the upload higher quality option

[@billion1983]

I habe this "High Quality upload" in Instagram on my Samsung S20, but the video which Im uploading is still blurry

[@georgediakoslomnios908]

It is actually a lot better to downsample your footage in timeline besides on export.. try it

[@YuiSenpai]

naisu! thanks m8

[@milkyoutube5953]

Thanks for the kind words, I'm always happy to help! Let know if you'd like any videos on specific topics in the future. I wish you all the

[@VultureVisions]

what's is your main white color balance or do you change depending on the lighting situation

[@youflixanime]

actually i found a way to export and have 4k into the iphones, it's got to do with premiere pro export settings

[@druckit]

*2024 UPDATE* This setting is now in Settings>Media quality>Upload at highest quality

[@rpatel133]

Hey everybody, 4k export works on my iPhone. Try exporting to the new apple pro res codec on premier pro. I notice .mov uploads better then .mp4

[@JenniferRichmond]

Great content and you have a thoughtful and fun communication style. Thanks!

[@kermanonephandara7458]

Hi there, thank you for video, this is pretty good. May I ask you what size is your video file to post in instagram reels after exporting?

[@jgutierrez45113]

Yo man, appreciate the video, very helpful. Do you by chance have a video on how to upload and export 10bit video?

[@ramonchavez6440]

For the high quality ig upload Do you have to upload from your computer to ig OR can it be done when you save it to your phone then upload it from there Will be getting your course btw

[@AdventuresofCarlienne]

found this extremely helpful! thanks man!

[@ballersdreamchasers7315]

Do you recommend for sports videos

[@akshayverma821]

future

[@prodbyjossa]

google drive plus gets me my 4k on my phone, but when i upload 4k i experience a lot more quality loose on my instagram

[@punksey5477]

I don't see "high quality uploads" in my settings. Please help! 😊

[@ShavonSmith]

since you use a pc over MacBook how do you transfer your file from computer to your iPhone?

[@EyeOfStormProductions]

vertiical is something to get use to vs cropping horizontal.,... Great vids btw !

[@baskitmedia6485]

ive worked around the 4k vertical iphone issue by editing it vertically then exporting it horizontally then rotating it in the IOS photos app.

[@kylewiltshire]

After you export with the music you picked from instagram, do you add the music to the video on instagram and then mute the audio?

[@ifeanyi5394]

When I shoot portrait and import it in premiere, it shows up as landscape. Then I have to rotate and crop vertically. Please how can I overcome this problem?

[@Jadesfishing]

What camera are you using? O shoot with a canon R5 and had to adjust the vertical setting on the camera to fix this. Hope that helps