Keep it SIMPLE! Davinci Resolve 18 free Render Settings for YOUTUBE!

this video is sponsored by Squarespace what up folks rendering in DaVinci Resolve for YouTube is not as complicated as you may think it's actually quite simple in this video I'm going to run through all of the options explain a few basic things so that you know exactly what you're doing when it comes to rendering I'm also going to show you a quick tip to create presets so you don't need to enter this every single time and another neat trick to upload your videos directly to YouTube from within DaVinci Resolve itself which can save you even more time so let's not waste any time let's jump straight into it and I'll show you how so here we are on the deliver page now I've got my render settings open on the left first thing I'm going to show you if we scroll over you can see that there is a built-in YouTube preset we can give it a click there's also a drop down box where you can select the resolution accordingly now this is not too bad it's better than it used to be but the downside to this is you don't have control over the quality or the bitrate which is why most people would recommend that you create a custom export instead which is what we're gonna do so I'm going to scroll over to the left and you should see custom export we're going to give that a click now you need to do some basic things first like give your render a name I'm just going to call this one YouTube and then set the location you want the render to export to make sure your render is set to single clip video and you've got the export video tick box ticked and then we're going to select our format now there are two options really that you can use on YouTube there's MP4 and then there's QuickTime either will work but YouTube actually recommend MP4 I've always used MP4 and I've had really good results the video you're watching now is MP4 so I generally stick with that and then we've got codec now you may see either three or two options we're going to ignore av1 because that's limited to the studio version and really high-end gpus and we're just going to talk about 264 and 265. now either version will work for YouTube 264 is the older codec it has worst compression so we'll give you either larger file sizes or worst image quality compared to 265 but it has the most compatibility most systems will be able to run out 264 without any real issues 265 is the more recent version it has better compression meaning better image quality or smaller file sizes now my recommendation is try H Dot 265 if it does anything weird like you've got massive file sizes or it takes ages to render or whatever then drop down to h.264 instead but if you have no issues running h.265 it is the better option of the two as mentioned you'll get better looking visuals with smaller file sizes so stick with 265 as long as it doesn't do anything stupid so I'm going to select 265. this encode option will only appear for those using the studio version and you can simply leave it as Auto or you can choose to have your render done via your graphics card or native which is your CPU I'm just going to leave that as it is for now and then we have resolution now I recommend that you just set the resolution to the same resolution as your timeline so I'm going to go with Ultra HD because that's what I edited this video in if your project is 1080p just select 1080p 1440 whatever you want if you need to do a custom resolution simply scroll up click custom and then enter the numbers manually in the box now you could upset out if you wanted to but I don't think it's essential so if you've edited at 1080p you could select 4K from here and it will do a bit of upscaling which may give you better results on YouTube but you will of course have bigger file sizes which means slower uploads and whatever else so I personally don't think it's essential just stick with the resolution of your timeline and then later on if you do want to try upscaling give that a go at another time then we've got frame rate again you just want to make sure that this matches the frame rates of your project it should pull through automatically so you can't really amend anything there then we're going to scroll down until we see quality now there are two options on quality automatic and then restrict two automatic will give you some general presets like least low medium height and best and then restrict will allow you to actually restrict the bit rate two kilobits per second if your thoughts don't like me you've got fast internet loads of storage I just leave it as automatic and then best it will give you great results but it will give you large file sizes if you need to restrict it we simply tick the restrict box and then manually enter the bitrate now this is actually quite simple don't over complicate it there are a few different rules that you can follow Casey farrows came up with a really good rule I've linked to his video down below and it does seem to work it's maybe actually a bit Overkill but it's a good place to start if you shut at 1080p just match your frame rate in your bitrate let me show you what I mean so if we're rendering this project at 1080p my frame rate is 30 I'm going to restrict we'll type in 30. thousand we're gonna multiply by a thousand and that will give us some really good results that's actually kind of overkill for 265 but it's a good rule of thumb to get you going if the project was 24 we'd just put 24 or even 25 000 within here if it was 60 would of course just put 60 000. if the project is Ultra HD or 4K just do the same thing but double it so if it was shot at 30 FPS we'd put 60 within here if we shot it at 24 or 25 we'd put 50 within here and that will as mentioned give you pretty solid results my recommendations try that do a render and then open it up on your local machine don't upload it to YouTube just yet and see how it looks if it looks really good but your file size is massive then you can just try another quick render but lower it a bit knock it down by five or ten thousand kilobits per second have a look if it still looks good and the file size is a bit smaller awesome if you've rendered it and it doesn't look very good then go in here do the opposite increase that by five or ten thousand until you find that quality or that bit rate which works for whichever footage you're using fast moving video like gaming video will need a higher bit rate than something like this where I'm just standing talking still movement generally causes the most compression artifacts so we'll need a higher bit rate but use that rule of thumb and then just tweak you from there you'll be able to find a sweet spot for you in no time at all so I'm going to put 60 000 within there now everything else on here you can actually leave as it is you can tweak things if you want but there's really no need there's no need either to mess with the audio so I've switched over to this audio tab the codec will be AAC and the bitrate should be 192. this again will work absolutely fine for YouTube so once you're happy you simply click add to the render queue it'll pop it over here on the right hand side and then click render all to render your video simple quick and easy talking to quick and easy here's a quick message from this video sponsor Squarespace if you're a photographer a video editor or a YouTuber you're probably going to need a website and that's where Squarespace comes in Squarespace allows you to create an awesome website in no time at all there's loads of great templates to choose from that all look great and are easy to customize there's also built-in analytics SEO tools online stores email marketing members areas blogs and now even scheduling tools so if you fancy checking out Squarespace for yourself just head over to squarespace.com right now to start your free trial then when you're ready to launch head over to squarespace.com forward slash Mr Alex Tech to save 10 of your first purchase of a website or a domain make sure to use the code Mr Alex Tech simple awesome now once that video is rendered you can then just send it over to YouTube but you can actually get DaVinci Resolve to do the whole thing for you render it out allow you to preview it and then automatically upload it to YouTube it's quick to set up so let me show you all we need to do click on DaVinci Resolve top left hand corner and then go to preferences this window will appear make sure you're on the system Tab and then come down to internet accounts and you have a bunch of Internet accounts here the top one is YouTube so simply click sign in a web browser will open log in and then give DaVinci Resolve the permissions it needs and then simply click continue if we hop back into DaVinci Resolve you can see we're signed in so simply click save now all we need to do at the bottom of this list so we're still on our custom export we've got all of our settings within here scroll down you should see a YouTube settings area you'll see you've got some YouTube controls within here so we're going to tick upload directly to YouTube and then we give our YouTube video a title I'm just going to call this one test and then we give it a description as well we can upload a thumbnail so I'm going to give that a tick and then enter the thumbnail path so I'll click the three little dots and then find my thumbnail just make sure your thumbnail is under the two megabyte size limit required for YouTube and then we can select the visibility and of the category as required now I'm going to hit add to the render queue now before we render this at the top here there's these three little dots if we give that the click make sure the option to review before upload is ticked that will give you opportunity to watch the video back before it's uploaded to YouTube just to make sure that it's all okay so with that done I'm going to give this a click and then I'm going to Simply hit render once that's rendered you'll see it will say waiting for upload that's because we've asked it not to upload until we've reviewed it if we right click there's an option to open the file location your folder will open that contains the video we can double click on it to watch it back and make sure that it's all okay if we're happy with it we just go back to DaVinci Resolve right click on the job within the render queue and then we click upload to Youtube if we're not happy with it we obviously just cancel the upload I'm happy so I'm going to click upload to Youtube and you can see the option will change to uploading if you want to see how long that's going to take or what's going on if you click on workspace at the top come down to background activity and give that a click you get this little box pop open and it will show you all of your upload and downloads mine's already finished so I can't show you that but you can see all the options within here now that it's done it says upload completed if we right click again there's an option to reveal in the browser so I'm going to give that a click it's going to open up my web browser directly to the YouTube video itself now it's processing at the moment so I'm going to go to edit video we're already in YouTube Studio you can see my thumbnail is there it's ready to go I can amend any of the stuff within here hit save and job done it just saves you the hassle of manually uploading it to YouTube yourself simple now if you're happy with all of the settings you can save those as a custom preset so you don't need to enter them every single time it's quick it's easy as always so let me show you how so to save all of this as a preset it's really easy just come right at the very top area of these render settings on the left you've got these three little dots give that a click and then you can save as a new preset I'm going to call this one 265 4K 30. whatever you want to call it just give that a nice little name and then click on ok now at the very top of your render settings if you scroll right to the left you'll see that preset now exists so at any time we can just come along give it a click and it'll pull through all of our settings now you can make as many of these as you like if you've got more than one you get the little drop down and then you can just select the presets as required if you need to delete the preset make sure it's selected and then click on the three little dots again and you can delete current preset if you want to create a new preset based off this one so let's come in and let's make this one better quality we can then click the three dots and save as a new preset or we can save those changes to the current one by simply clicking update current preset and that's it I hope you enjoyed this video if you did let me know down in the comments give it a like give it a subscribe if you want to see more whatever you want to do take it easy thanks for watching I'll see you next time

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Length: 11min 46sec (706 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 25 2023