Edit Vertical Video in Davinci Resolve | Instagram Reels, Tiktok, IGTV, Shorts

A tutorial on editing vertical video using Davinci Resolve 17 or 16. I go through using the free software showing you tips on how to rotate and fit your footage for vertical videos. This will work for 16x9/9x16 ratio used for Instagram Reels, Tiktok, KZbin Shorts, and Instagram Stories. I also go through the export settings necessary to upload your videos with the best quality. Hope this vertical video tutorial is helpful to you!
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Welcome to my Channel: (00:00)
Vertical Video Overview: (00:14)
Editing Using Free Davinci Resolve: (00:27)
What Background do you like better?: (01:11)
Import Vertical Footage to Davinci Resolve: (01:25)
Project Settings - Change to Vertical Timeline: (02:05)
Rotate and Zoom Your Footage: (02:36)
Copy and Paste Your Settings: (03:00)
Change Layout Tip to Make Editing Easier: (03:51)
Finish Your Edit: (04:41)
Export Setting for Social Media - Video: (04:54)
Export Setting for Social Media - Audio: (05:53)
Render Your Vertical Video: (06:53)
Instagram Reel Example: (07:14)
#DavinciResolve #Verticalvideo #Verticalediting

[@jonahlamour9458]

I normally don't ever comment under videos but this one has been so helpful and felt the need to. Great video man! keep it up.

[@AndrikLangfield]

Hey, thanks so much for watching! You're welcome, glad it was helpful!

[@peterchamberlain3707]

have a look at media pool, clip attributes, clip orientation. select all clips and you can adjust them all in the media pool at the same time.

[@misterjase]

thanks for pointing out swapping the res values 1920 x 1080 --> 1080 x 1920....was wondering why my exports came out so small. all good now thanks to you ! Many thanks. you have a new sub !

[@AndrikLangfield]

Hey Jason, glad to hear it cleared some things up :) Thanks for watching and subscribing 🙏🏼

[@YELLOWBOXINDIA]

good explanation

[@AndrikLangfield]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Jade-fo1wc]

Thank you heaps this is SUPER helpful!

[@AndrikLangfield]

You're welcome Jade! Glad it was :)

[@trf_amar6519]

Thank you ❤

[@AndrikLangfield]

You're welcome!

[@mcvarnock]

Super helpful man, thank you!

[@AndrikLangfield]

Hey so glad to hear :) thanks Liam

[@marcuskif]

Still works

[@AndrikLangfield]

Awesome! :)

[@haylothedon_sa1876]

Thanks so much Andrik, was struggling with this.

[@AndrikLangfield]

Hey, you're welcome :) glad it helped!

[@Sagefiftyeight]

upstairs for sure

[@AndrikLangfield]

Thanks!:):)

[@Kadenxe]

wow great value in this video, thanks for sharing this knowledge

[@AndrikLangfield]

You're welcome! Glad it was helpful :)

[@faithsushi]

thanks for the help!

[@AndrikLangfield]

You're welcome! Glad of helped:)

[@reshmamr515]

Quality content bro❤

[@AndrikLangfield]

Thank you so much!

[@AquashiiMusic]

Great video thank you!

[@AndrikLangfield]

You're welcome! :)

[@recipetodelicious5791]

Excellent video, answers a lot of questions I had about doing shorts

[@calebwhite681]

I DON'T think the free version for Mac, at least, supports vertical UDH, only FHD vertical because trying to set it to vertical resolution in UHD just never works and it never saves in the project settings.

[@The-explorer]

That is awesome

[@AndrikLangfield]

I'm glad it helped :) the new update of resolve has a little button now that will rotate your project to a vertical project

[@pastillAroja1]

Thank you very Much!!!

[@AndrikLangfield]

You're welcome!:)

[@theunknown5415]

Thanks for the video

[@AndrikLangfield]

You're welcome, thanks for watching :)

[@adonis0713]

as your settings, when i open FUSION page, it's still 1920x1080 horizontal. how to change it to vertical? thanks

[@dhruv9954]

😍😍😍😍

[@AndrikLangfield]

Thanks Dhruv 🙏🏼

[@asditaprasetya]

Hii i love your color grading, please share how you make it

[@coachmohab7247]

❤

[@AndrikLangfield]

Thank you !

[@stefancondik]

does higher Quality (BEST) perform worse on IG, or what is the reason to restrict it to a certain value (40 000 here)? thank you :)

[@yeisonportillo22]

Hey Andrik, great video, it's really helpful. One question, what about those square video that are uploaded as reels too? what will be the timeline resolution? 108x1080? Thanks!

[@haribaskaran3046]

How to get full screen output I was stucked on this issue .. without side frame i need the output

[@AndrikLangfield]

Hey, what do you mean? Are you working with 2 monitors, and are you hoping to have one of them full screen while you edit?

[@gayathridevi9053]

Thank you brother nice video but i have a problem while transferring video from laptop to my phone the video is too small and I'm not getting the exact full size video. can u pl help me with this problem.

[@AndrikLangfield]

Hey, what phone do you have? And how are you transferring the footage over?

[@gayathridevi9053]

@@AndrikLangfield Android bro and transferring by USB cable

[@AndrikLangfield]

@@gayathridevi9053 hmm you should be fine then without losing quality. Once you import it, you can then scale it to size as long as it's 1920x1080 or 1080x1920 you won't lose any resolution.

[@gayathridevi9053]

@@AndrikLangfield ok brother I'll try, thank you for ur response🙏

[@hauraalmuscati6555]

Thanks a great video Doesn’t the zoom in affect the quality of the video ?

[@AndrikLangfield]

Good question, no it won't, since I shot the video vertical, all we are doing is rotating the canvas and then rotating the video. It would affect the quality if we shot it landscape and then cropped into the image so that it would fill the whole vertical canvas. Hope that makes sense :)

[@michaelnilsson4764]

Been wondering about this too. After rotating the footage, you zoom in to fill the canvas (by approx 1.7-1.8%). So how doesn’t that degrade the quality?

[@EastPh1lly]

@@michaelnilsson4764 wondering the same, feels like the quality isnt the same anymore.. im exhausted to film vertically because the rendered final version does not look that good as expected for me

[@AndrikLangfield]

Hi Michael, somehow I missed your comment, it doesent degrade the quality since all we are doing is rotating the 1920x1080 canvas to 1080x1920 and then rotating our footage to 1080x1920 and then just filling the frame with it. Hope that makes sense :)

[@AndrikLangfield]

Hi Philipp, just replied to Michael, but to continue the answer, if you are shooting in 4k and then down sampling to a vertical 1080x1920 then you are technically downsampling and losing 4k detail, but that would be the same as shooting in 4k and then bringing it into a 1920x1080 timeline, it just gives you more room to zoom in :)

[@itsme_sachin]

Thank you, but after uploading the video as per above settings... Instagram reduced the quality of it. Doesn't look like a HD video!! Any help!?

[@AndrikLangfield]

Yeah, instagram compresses video pretty badly :(

[@PostWarKids]

UPSTAIRS SETUP

[@AndrikLangfield]

Thanks so much! :)

[@saideepakbhoompally8216]

Flipping numbers didn't do anything to me

[@reysnaps6515]

What’s the alt V on Mac?

[@AndrikLangfield]

I believe that's the Option Key :)

[@garyyoungdop]

Film has no hope - give up mate