Hey, my name is Matt Johnson.
And today I want to show you how to easily edit and export high quality
videos for YouTube shorts using Da Vinci Resolve.
And to save you time, I've created a Free Da Vinci Project template
that you can download at the link down below,
which will save you a ton of time and catch you editing these shorts
very quickly without you need to dial everything in manually,
so go down to that template for free down below.
Moving on, welcome to Da Vinci Resolve.
And first off, you're going to want to create a new project like I've done here.
And before you do anything else, you're going to want to go up here to file
project settings and then here for your timeline resolution.
We're going to change this from 3840 by 2160 to 1080 by 1920.
Hey, Matt, from the future here.
Sorry to interject in the tutorial, but in the process of recording
this video, Da Vinci released version 18.1
and updated the way that you can do vertical videos in resolve.
Now, if you have updated to 18.1 or later, you're going to see this
checkbox that appears that says use vertical resolution.
And so if your timeline resolution is saying 1920 by 1080, for example,
or 3840 by 2160, just check this box
and it's going to automatically change it to 1080 by 1920.
Vertical Resolution, which is great.
Otherwise though,
there won't be any differences whenever you are creating your timeline.
And then here next to timeline frame rate by default, most cameras
these days are filming at 23.976 frames per second.
But if you want to export your video at a different frame rate, which
I don't really recommend use, I just recommend 23.976.
But if you want something else, you can select this dropped on here
and choose a different option for whatever you want to export your video to.
In this case, though, we're going to leave it
at 23.9, seven, six and then click Save Down here at the bottom.
Next, import your footage.
In this case, I have a clip that I filmed at a wedding recently.
And then you're going to drag it down here to the timeline.
And wait a second.
No, everything's cropped and it's got huge bars on the top and bottom.
Yes, this is what happens
whenever you import a horizontal clip onto a vertical timeline.
Resolve is going to scale the video down so it fits to put massive black bars
on it. To fix this and make your image fill the screen.
You can either go up here to the inspector in the top right corner
and then for zoom
you can click and drag to the right, which is going to zoom in on your image.
And then you can click on the exposition here to reframe things.
Or if you have a lot of horizontal video clips that you're working with,
I'm going to press control Z here twice to go back to the default
and then you're going to go over here on the left to your timeline, right
click on the timeline, select timelines,
timeline settings, uncheck the use project settings, dialog box.
And here next to mismatch resolution,
you're going to click the dropdown and select scale full frame with crop
and then go up here to the output tab because we're not done yet.
Make sure that use project settings is unchecked and also change
the mismatch resolution here to also scale full frame with crop press.
Okay, and voila.
Now all of the images on your timeline will be rescale to fill the screen.
Then all you have to do is with your clip selected.
Go over back over here to the inspector and then for a position,
click and drag the exposition to the right to reframe your clips.
Finally, let's say you are done editing this video and you need to render it.
Click on the rocket ship down here at the bottom to go to the export page.
And then first we the title this let's call this file name, who is Matt Short?
And then you're also going to need to select a location
where you want your short to be saved to
so you can find it after you've exported it.
Once you have your location hit save and then make sure that render
is set to a single clip.
And here under the video tab for format, you're going to select QuickTime Codec
to six for encoder is going to be set to whatever graphics card your computer has.
You can leave it by default.
It should be fine, but down here
to resolution, here's where things get important first.
Just like with the timeline settings earlier,
you're going to want to make sure that this is set to 1080 by 1920,
and the frame rate matches up with your timeline, which this does.
Can you change that frame rate, though? Make sure you change that.
Hey, Matt, from the future again, if you've updated to DaVinci Resolve 18.1
or later, you're also going to see this
checkbox here that says Use vertical resolution.
You're going to want to make sure
that's checked if you're exporting a YouTube short
because it's going to make your video vertical.
And then here under quality, this is the most important part.
I would restrict this to 40,000 kilobits per second,
which is high, but keep in mind that YouTube is going to compress
your video down smaller
and choosing a high bitrate like this will help you avoid artifacts.
And then if your software gives you the option down here for rate control,
change this from vbr high quality to constant bitrate,
which is going to help resolve throw more data at the video files.
Of course, though, if this rate control option
is not available in your software, I wouldn't stress about it.
Your quality should still be great with that.
The last thing you need to do is select add to render cue down here at the bottom
and then over here on the right you can click render all, which is
going to then render out your YouTube short to then upload your video file.
You can use a site like Dropbox, which you can set up or down below or airdrop
if you're on a mac and then you can use your phone
and the Dropbox app or airdrop to save the video to your phone.
Then all you have to do is
open the YouTube app and upload your short there and hit post with that.
Thank you so much for watching this YouTube shorts tutorial for DaVinci
Resolve.
Remember, you can still download that free template file down below
that will get you editing shorts even faster in resolve.
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