Hey there good people! I'm Scott, and this is Sword & Shield Studio. Right now are going
to learn about what some of the best settings are to export your videos from DaVinci Resolve
to YouTube. Right, so let's get into it.
So I am here on the delivery tab of DaVinci Resolve where I have a project that I am ready
to export. DaVinci Resolve has a preset YouTube export option at the top here. So wait a minute.
Why am I making this tutorial if there's a preset YouTube option? Well, this works fine
if you want to quickly upload something like a vlog for instance where quick delivery is
the most important thing over image fidelity. However, this doesn't give you complete control
over the codec and the datarate and all the fine tune settings you may want to adjust.
So if you're uploading a complete project or something for a client I still recommend
using the custom settings here.
Once you're in the custom settings select a Filename. I'll name it 'animation'. Choose
a location. I'm just going to save it in the videos folder. Then you'll want to select
your format. Either MP4 or Quicktime. MP4 will give you an MP4 file where Quicktime
will give you a .MOV It's just a different container, it is whatever you prefer. For
Codec choose H.264, this is an industry standard lossy codec that YouTube accepts and likes,
so we're going to stick with that. For Encoder, choose NVIDIA or AMD, whichever is available
for your hardware. For me that's NVIDIA. If neither of them are available, you can go
ahead and choose 'Native' that's fine. Resolution, match the resolution of your project. In my
case that's 4K or 3840x2160. Just match whatever your project is. Framerate, again match your
project. In this case it's 60 frames per second. Restrict your bitrate to 80,000 Kb/s. Scroll
down where you see 'Advanced Settings' and expand it. Check 'Use render cached images,'
'Force sizing to highest quality,' and 'Force debayer to highest quality.' Then you can
Add to Render Queue, Start your Render and you're done.
Well, what if you want to come back to these settings at a later time? Say, for instance,
you upload the same types of videos as you might if you're uploading to YouTube. Simply
go up to the three dots at the top right of your Render Settings window here. Click 'Save
as New Preset.' Enter your preset name. Animation, I'll call it, for instance. Either hit 'Enter'
or click OK. And boom! You've got your preset up here at the top of your Render Settings
window, available for you anytime you want to repeat those specific render settings.
So at the end of the day I found that these settings were a good compromise between the
highest quality settings you can set in DaVinci Resolve and the bare minimum required from
YouTube. In the future I may upload a video with a more in-depth look at the delivery
page and what each individual setting means. This, however, was just a good quick start
guide to get your videos up and running on YouTube as fast as possible with as little
explanation as possible. Hope it was helpful and I'll see you next time.