For too long i exported washed out low saturated videos for youtube compared to
what i color graded in davinci resolve but i want and need them to be the same so i learned
how to fix it on my mac and i'm going to share that with you right away the quick tip is to
open up preferences under system settings go down to general check the two boxes for
use mac display color profiles for viewers and automatically tag rec709 scene clips as rec 709a
then just restart resolve so those settings are going to lock in now open up your project settings
go to color management and change the timeline color space to rec 709a just save it grade it
and do a quick export to h.265 for uploading to youtube and it's going to match the work
that you are viewing on your computer monitor in resolve but if you want to know the absolute best
settings for uploading to youtube especially if you don't use a specialty calibrated color
reference display or monitor or you know like use one of these things or you work with like flat
log raw footage stick around until the end and i'm going to show you what works best on a mac
i hear editors complain about the quicktime gamma shift all the time and i know what they mean
but it's just a file using the incorrect nclc tags which you can see in a quicktime inspector where
they call them code points these tags are just information about the video file to tell colorsync
which is the mac's color management system that works in quicktime preview safari and chrome
how colors should appear now youtube wants and expects to see the tag set to one one one and
the problem is that in davinci resolve most people color grade in the broadcast default gamma of 2.4
which is gonna export a one two one tag file and that's gonna give you a washed out low
contrast saturated video once youtube does its conversion so on a mac rec 709a is going to
provide you with the best looking and consistent images from resolve to quicktime to youtube
i assume you already set your result preferences to use mac display color profiles for viewers and
tag 709 clips as rec 709 a from the intro part of this tutorial however instead of working
in the default ygb color science let's open up project settings and go to color management to
work in davinci yrgb color managed resolve color management is an amazing under the hood way to
get your footage looking beautiful especially if it's log encoded or raw footage without needing
to do much normalization correction at all i like to disable automatic color management and change
the color processing mode to hdr davinci wide gamut wide gamut lets me use the hdr grading
tools so that they behave just like a camera does for things like exposure color temperature
and saturation and then this is the critical one change the output color space to rec 709 a
and save it next assign any input color spaces of log clips that aren't raw i've got a link
in the description to learn how simple and powerful color management inside of resolve
is if that's something that's new to you edit grade it and change the timeline resolution in
project settings to 3840x2160 youtube uses two different codecs and the 4k resolution here is
going to help force it to use the better codec called vp9 once youtube re-encodes the file
now click on the deliver page and choose h.265 master if you've got a newer mac
and h.264 if it's older otherwise it's going to take ages to render the export
i like to use quicktime as the format and check the box for chapter markers to navigate chapters
in quicktime player now to bump the quality up slightly i like to change the data rate from
automatic to 50,000 kilobits per second click the file tab to force your export video name to match
the timeline name inside of resolve that's just one of my pet peeves so i can backtrack things
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