Hey, my name is Matt Johnson.
And today I want to show you how to export extremely high quality 4K videos
using DaVinci Resolve for YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook and also for clients
you may be delivering your video files to and to save you time.
I've created a Free Da Vinci Project template
you can download at the link down below, which will get you ready to export 4K
videos very quickly without you needing to dial everything in manually.
So go download that template for free below.
Moving on to Open Up Da Vinci Resolve and create a new project like I've done here.
And before you do anything else, you're going to need to go up here to file
project settings and for timeline resolution, make sure it's set to 3840
by 21, 60 ultra HD, and also make sure that your frame rate
is set to the frame rate that you want to export your video at.
In this case, minus set to 23.976.
And because I've already imported a clip on to the timeline,
this is not changeable.
So make sure that you change this before you import any video clips.
Make sure you had saved on here at the bottom
and then you can import and edit your video clips.
In this case,
I have a clip that I filmed at a wedding recently that I put here on the timeline.
And I also happen to color this clip using my presets
who is not lets which are linked down below.
Now let's pretend that this video clip is now fully edited and ready
to be exported.
Click on the rocketship down in the bottom and then over here on the left for file
name. Let's call this who is Mac 4K?
Then select the location where you want to save
your video clip to so that way you can find it after it's done rendering.
Really important to do that.
And now let's say that you want to upload this video clip
to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, etc.
In that case, for format, you're going to want to select QuickTime Codec.
You're going to want to change that from start
two six 4 to 8.265, which is going to be higher quality.
And then for encoder, leave it to whatever default your computer selects
Resolution 3840 by 21, 60 ultra HD and then the frame rate should be
whatever you want to export your video frame rate it.
In my case and what I would recommend for you is 23.976.
Now we have a final very important setting to talk about down here next to quality.
First off, I want to give a big shout out to Casey Ferris
and his tutorials for Dove Into Yourself, because I really like his recommendation
for how to handle Bitrates owing to his channel down below.
You should first
set your bitrate to double your frame rate when exporting in HD 265.
So because we're exporting at 24 frames per second, you're going to click this,
restrict two and let's double click on it and change it to 50,000.
I know 24 times two is 48, but 50,000.
Nice round number, a little bit cleaner.
Likewise, if you're exporting at 30 frames per second, I would set this
to 60,000 kilobits per second and 60 frames per second.
I would set it to a 120,000.
Then for rate control down here, you're going to want to change this
from VB, our high quality to constant bitrate,
which is basically going to tell resolve to always use the maximum bitrate
and should result in a super clean and high quality file for you
when you upload it to any video sharing site.
Side note if you do not see the rate control dropdown menu as an option here,
that means that your graphics card does not support this feature.
And I wouldn't worry about it because even if you cannot select
constant rate, your quality should still be very high.
And then all you have to do is click add to render cue and then render
all over here on the right and you're good to go.
But now
let's say that you have a different goal when it comes to exporting this video.
Maybe this isn't a video that you're going to be uploading to a video site
and instead,
this is a video that you want to send to a client that you're editing for.
Keep in mind that your client's computer may not be able to playback
a video encoded in the H2 65 Codec because it is more processor intensive.
So in that case, I have different settings for you and these settings
are also great in the event that you're using the free version of DaVinci Resolve
and you're clicking on this Codec dropdown menu here, and you're saying that
I don't see no age to 65, I only get to 64.
That's okay.
In addition, these settings are also really great.
If your computer is exporting age to 65 really slowly,
the settings are going to make it much faster for you.
In that case, for client delivery of videos,
I would select the 8.264 codec, keep all the rest of these settings
the same, and then down here under quality next to restrict to.
I would keep in mind that the 264 codec requires
a much higher bitrate to give you a similar quality to H2 65.
So I would set this restrict if you're exporting a 24 frames per
second clip to 100,000 kilobits per second, which is much higher.
Likewise, if you're exporting a 30 frames per second video, I would restrict
your kilobits per second to 120,000.
And if you're exporting a 60 frames per second video, I would select 150,000.
This is going to result
in a really big file size, but the quality is going to be very good.
Make sure you select constant bitrate down here as well for your rate control,
which is going to help keep that quality up.
And then all you need to do, just like exporting for YouTube, click add
to render queue and then over here on the right click render all.
And that's how you export very high quality 4K videos in DaVinci
Resolve for both uploading to YouTube as well as delivering to clients.
If you haven't downloaded yet, my DaVinci Resolve Project template
file is still linked down below completely for free
and it will help you get exporting these 4K videos even faster.
And my color presets that I've used to color all of this video
and the clip that I edited
are also linked out in the description as well, if you want to check them out
with that.
Thanks so much for watching and have a great day.