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.
