How to actually export highest quality for Youtube in Premiere?

[yosuke30]

I've watched a lot of tutorials by now and none of them give good results.

This is what I'm doing:
Recording in 2560x1440 lossless, editing in Premiere Pro and then export it, here are the settings:
2560x1440, h.264, VBR 1 pass 140MBit/s average, 300MBit/s max., 60 fps

I know the bitrates seem high, but when I chose the Premiere template or use the suggested values from Youtube itself (something around 35MBit/s) the video looks aweful. Increasing the bitrate to values over 100MBit/s seem to increase the quality, even though Youtube re-renders it to their standards.
The video itself has a lot of motion (just take any gameplay from fast paced shooters as reference) and this is my problem I guess. It looks fine when there is no real motion in the picture, but as soon as there is motion it gets blurry.

And yes, I do get the VP9 codec from Youtube.

Can anyone give me the best settings for exporting in Premiere Pro for Youtube?

[KarMa]

Maybe use the x264 plugin for Premiere. The H264 encoder provided with Adobe PP is not that great.

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/385325-New-free-x264-plugin-for-premiere