Hey, my name is Matt Johnson.
And today I want to show you how to edit and export high quality
videos for Instagram reels using Da Vinci Resolve.
Yes, we're using Da Vinci, baby.
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 get you editing these reels
very quickly without you needing to dial everything in manually.
So go download that template for free down below.
Moving on.
Open up DaVinci Resolve and create a new project
like I have here, and I'm going to call it Instagram Reels Demo.
Press Open.
And before you do anything else in your project,
the first thing you're going to want to do is go up to file project settings.
And then here under timeline resolution, you're going to want to change
this from 3840 by 2160 or whatever it has by default for you.
You're gonna want to change that to 1080 by 1920.
And then I would also change the timeline frame rate from 24 FP to 23.976
because that matches up with the video frame rate that I filmed at.
If you happen to film in a different frame rate, choose that other
frame rate next good on here and hit save import.
Your video clips
that you want to use in your video by going down here to the media pool tab.
In this case, I'm going to drag in this clip that I have of my brother
in Hawaii that I filmed with my Sony A7, S3 and Colored using my color preset.
Who is Matt Lutz, which you can download at the link down in the video description?
And as you can see, this clip is horizontal.
And so if you import a horizontal clip onto a vertical timeline, this happens.
In result, you end up with your video
scale down and massive black bars on the top and bottom.
To fix this and make your image fill the screen.
You can either go up here to the inspector in the top, right.
And for Zoom, you can start to click and drag the Y axis to the right.
And that's going to make it bigger.
And once you add about 3.165 or so, that's going to fill up the entire screen.
You can then use the X position here
tool to reframe your clip, and that looks really good.
Alternatively, if you have a lot of horizontal clips
that you're working with
and you don't want to have to reframe each of them manually.
Press Control Z a few times to bring this back down to where it was.
Instead, you can go up here to your timeline in the top left
right, click on it, go to timeline's timeline
settings and then uncheck the use project settings box.
And then here under mismatch resolution, change this
to scale full frame with crop and then under output.
Also make sure you change
the mismatched resolution here to scale full frame with crop as well.
Press okay.
And DaVinci is now going to automatically zoom in all of your video clips.
They fill up the frame completely.
You can then select your clip
and go over to the exposition and reframe as you need to.
In this case, I think this looks really good.
And let's now say that we're done editing this video and it's time to render it.
So we're going to click on the rocket ship render icon down here in the bottom
and then over here on the left
for your render settings under file name, let's call this Who is Matt Real?
You can name it whatever you want.
And then for location, you're going to want to click, browse
and select where you want to save your video file.
This is really important
because if you don't like where you save it,
you're not going to know where your video file is
and you definitely don't want to know that next for format, you're going
want to select quick time and for Codec HD 264.
Then we have some very important settings that we need to cover
first under resolution, make sure that is set to 1080 by 1920.
That way your rendered video matches up with your sequence and everything
looks vertical like it should for Instagram reels and for frame rate.
Select 23.976 if that is the frame rate that you filmed in.
And then the most important thing you have the quality
setting here and by default it's going to choose automatic best.
But I would recommend changing this because you need to keep in mind
that Instagram is not going to process the real very much before it's published.
So you do not want to upload too big of a video file
because that may make Instagram throw you an error
and say that it can't upload the real or may playback your video weird etc.
So to avoid that, I would select the restrict option here
and restrict your video double click to type
to 3500 kilobits per second, which is still plenty
for a small 1080 video that's going to be played on a small phone screen.
And then down here under rate control, I would change this from vbr high quality
to constant bitrate, which is going to basically tell DaVinci
to always give your video the full amount of data,
which is going to help prevent compression artifacts in your video.
Worst case scenario, if you export your video and you're seeing
some compression artifacts and the quality doesn't look as good as you would like,
feel free to raise this 3500 kilobits per second number
higher to 5000 kilobits per second or 10,000.
But keep in mind that the video file size is going to get larger because of that,
and this could lead to issues when you upload to Instagram,
which is why I recommend on average 3500 kilobits per second.
With that, the last thing you need to do is select add to render queue
down here in the bottom and then over here on the right
click render all and your video will be rendering.
And within a few seconds or minutes, depending on the speed of your computer,
you will have an Instagram reel ready for you to upload.
Then it's a simple matter of using an app like Dropbox or Airdrop to transfer
the file from your computer to your phone where you can upload it without.
Thank you so much
for watching this Instagram reels tutorial for DaVinci Resolve.
Remember that you can still download the free Instagram reels template
file down below that will get you editing reels even faster in resolve.
Also speaking of resolve,
this is the first video that I've made about DaVinci Resolve, but I'm planning on
making a lot more and branching out to use other video editing software.
So please leave me a comment down below and let me know what you think.
Do you want to see more videos about Da Vinci?
What videos would you like to see?
How can I help you with this program?
Let me know.
All right.
Thanks so much for watching and have.
A great day.
Hey, my name is Matt Johnson.
And today I want to show you how to edit and export high quality
videos for Instagram reels using DaVinci Resolve.
Yes, we're using Da Vinci, baby.
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 gets you editing these reels
very quickly without you needing to dial everything in manually.
So go download that template for free below.