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

[@MrAlexTech]

If you do have the AV1 option, then give that a try! It’s the latest and greatest (and should be better than H.265!)

[@michaelthebigaussie]

Can you do a vid on the difference between av1 and 265?

[@Skapo]

Was honestly annoyed you didn't go over that on the premise that it was a studio only feature. Do you just assume people don't have/use the studio version or something?

[@footballtalk4857]

@@Skapo Well I think because only the newer higher GPU actually supports Av1 on a hardware level

[@FireWalkMusic]

Will KZbin convert h265 to h264 when you upload the video? I've seen that stated here and there, but I'm not sure if that's changed now?

[@Kireth]

@@Skapo chill - the amount of people that have cards capable of AV1 encoding is really limited right now. He also explained that.

[@ADV_Agenda]

Great explanation, thank you for being there for us noobs!!!! This is by far the best DaVinci resolve tutorial channel on KZbin

[@onyourmarkss]

informative videos everytime! very thankful to have come across your channel

[@BuyOrBye]

In my latest video I noticed that the quality of my game footage is slightly worse compared to how it looks like ingame I checked and it was set to H.264 Switching it over H.265 brought forward all of the missing detail, and made the entire composition look so much crisper! Thank you very much for this video

[@KANIIVTI]

You recordet it in H264 or H265?

[@DellanaDellana]

Excellent! Thank you! It's great to see you posting again!

[@geoffreymee7671]

That was a great slab of just the right information about getting to KZbin. Excellent. Thx Alex.

[@Leader1623]

Your videos are an absolute godsend to me. Thank you!

[@BackroadExploits]

I should be going to bed but I'm learning so much here.....yet another awesome tutorial.

[@dadstalktech]

I shoot all our videos in 1080p, but I upscale everything in DR to 4K for KZbin. I find the YT compression makes 1080p video look awful! DR does a nice job upscaling so all my source video saves me space and on KZbin the final render I upload looks much better at all resolutions, so it is a win-win for me. Only my final render file is a bit larger, not all my raw video files. Thanks for the video! Cheers!

[@TuesdaysTurn]

I edit in 1080 and upscale to 4k during render also. I saw a tutorial that said right before the render to change the timeline setting to 4k, but he doesn't mention that in this video. Do you know if that step is necessary?

[@dadstalktech]

@@TuesdaysTurn Yes, you absolutely want to change the project to 4K and then render in 4k.

[@TuesdaysTurn]

@@dadstalktech Thanks much! I've done several comparisons, and on a HD monitor, I don't notice the upscale much better, but on a 4k monitor, it is night and day. I hate the huge file sizes, but the quality is so much better. So I'll keep playing the game!

[@DreamyJorg]

I recently started uploading videos and I noticed KZbin lowers my resolution 😢 thankfully I use davinci and this makes sense to me lol thanks for the tips!

[@williamhouston559]

@@DreamyJorg The initial KZbin version may be at a reduced quality. Check back the next day when the highest quality version may be available.

[@MoondogGamer]

That RENDER ALL button helped me. Thank you for that..

[@IlseMulAuthor]

Thanks for this handy video! It saved me a lot of time figuring out the best settings for KZbin :) Happy New Year!

[@wingrovedl]

Thank You Alex ! I needed a good reminder. ⏳

[@rith2757]

you explained EVERYTHING i needed to know clearly and easily. thank you for an amazing video/tutorial :)

[@MikeyGRetro]

Some great tips. Will try this out. Thank you.

[@ThailandVIPTravels]

Thank you for making this video very detailed and helped me a lot!

[@Joyboy.753]

Thank you so so so much for Alex. This was really really helpful.

[@paulcain548]

Super useful as always. Cheers Alex 👍🏻

[@freddymiguelponce]

AWESOME! As always! Have a Productive and Healthy Day!

[@WiscoWorkshop]

Always great information on your channel. Thank you for sharing your tips and tricks they are a huge help!

[@HenryPedia]

Thank you Alex. Very helpful.

[@Driver.55]

You just saved my channel, man Thank you so much! Great explanation!

[@truewiking]

Brilliant as always 🙏 learned a lot

[@successjoegeorge]

Great video Alex. You rock. Keep up the amazing work my friend. God bless!

[@Foomba]

Always helpful and in good humor. 👍

[@flixmyswitch]

Will have to check my settings

[@avi8tor330]

Hi Alex, as always, you provided the most comprehensive, still understandable content on this topic. Thank you! Cheers Martin

[@topicruben]

Thanks a lot, Alex. I was having some issues with a project I’m doing and before I started asking a bunch of ppl, I decided to have a look, and boom 💥… I have to increase my bitrate number! Very helpful 🙏

[@MIMCKMedia]

I have the problem, that I can't upload clips, rendered from davinci, to KZbin shorts via Smartphone. If I upload the clip with "upload video" it works but when upload with create short video it say "video preview not available". I read my other people got the same problem. Any idea what could be the problem? It's look like it's only affect davinci footage even its the same codec as premiere render (premiere footage works)

[@europeanambience]

+1

[@the350zProject]

Same

[@BuioPestato]

you have to turn on "render without timecode" in the file section of the deliver section

[@MIMCKMedia]

@@BuioPestato thanks I will keep it in mind

[@Troutbitten]

Thanks

[@BlackHat302Gaming]

Awesome, thank you, I knew about the presets, but could never do auto upload to KZbin. But now I can, as I guess they have changed a few things over the updates. Thank you as always for awesome content and information.

[@KirkwoodImaging]

For KZbin with a nice internet connection... I just upload a ProRes export. When I don't have good internet or need to upload quickly, I export ProRes then encode to H264 or H265 in Shutter Encoder using the CPU. I set a CQ quality target of about 18 and the exports look absolutely incredible vs any of the hardware encoded videos.

[@AllThingsFilm1]

Fantastic tutorial. Thank you SO much.

[@robhurley5258]

Excellent, thank you!

[@thegoofyguy]

That was great! Thanks! You do a great job of walking us through the process. I really appreciate it!

[@WaddleAero]

Good stuff! As always learned, stuff and had fun at the same time!

[@dsawakening]

You're awesome. I learned a 100 things in less than 12 minutes. 🥰

[@PartTimeCollector]

Super helpful, thank you!

[@michael_tunnell]

just so you know, h265 has massive licensing issues attached with it which is why AV1 is becoming the standard

[@Akumagamer6427]

great video. been slightly losing my mind with this stuff thank you for the info

[@GaryCunninghamyouareenough]

So helpful as always, Alex - cheers man 🙏

[@theupgradepodcast]

very helpful thanks!!

[@DiscoveringTheScene]

I love smart people!

[@aevidaudi]

Thank you so much! This really helped me out! ❤

[@roleselvagem]

Hey Alex what about "network optimization" under Encoder? thanks for the tips

[@ratandjmt]

Thanks for the video. I do a lot of mountain biking videos and quality setting under render is something that's always given me issues. I shoot in 4k/30fps on my GoPro. For the quality I'll push the restrict to 250,000. It just seems like a good catch all. Sometimes when I don't push the number so high everything on the sides of the video looks like I just engaged the warp drive on my bike. But doing this it seems to make objects (trees/grass) a bit clearer/more visible on the sides. I may have to go back in and do some playing around using lower settings. As always appreciate the videos.

[@williamhouston559]

If audio quality (eg for music) is important than you should render to Quicktime which allows using uncompressed PCM audio. For music video KZbin recommends 24bit 44.1 sample rate PCM audio in the video file.

[@vibewhen]

yes this is a feature available only to partners who use KZbin's Content ID matching system.. edit. although i have uploaded a video with this setting. strangely I was able to upload a video with a .mkv format with h.264 codec. audio was true PCM 24bit. . even though youtube says it wont accept .mkv

[@RikkyTang]

I find that upscaling is necessary for my motovlog footage because any clips with a lot of motion (i.e. from my motorbike) look awful in KZbin with blocky-looking video at 1080P when YT streams that video in the AVC1 codec. If I upscale to 1440P or 4K at a decent bitrate, YT streams the video with the VP09 codec which looks loads better 👍 Large files/rendering times are the result, but for me the image quality is worth it.

[@CinePenguin89]

Yo I know this comment's a year old but I'm the editor for a moto channel and curious, what bitrate do you use? My client has me export in 4k but on DaVinci default settings the files get MASSIVE xd

[@RikkyTang]

@@CinePenguin89 I usually export in Quicktime H.265 @ 4K 50fps and 90,000 kbps. For reference, a 20 minute video will be about 14Gb

[@CinePenguin89]

@@RikkyTang Got you, thanks!

[@teddyperera8531]

This is really helpful. Thank you

[@TheRealBarkinMadd]

Well done, Sir. Thanks for posting.

[@sayedebrahim7]

❤ thank you for amazing videos

[@iTzZigma]

Thank you so much for the video, very useful information and great explaining everything 🙏🏾📈👍🏽

[@MoonManTheories]

Perfect video. Thanks. What about rendering a clip you will use over and over on youtube but that is not itself a whole video? Is there any reason to render with different settings that that of ones uploads? Higher quality for example? Or should it be kept the same? Liek is there any loss form dropping it on a timeline and rendering it out again with the exact same settings?

[@scienceofsound]

Excellent video. I have DR 18 Studio 18.1.3 Build 8 and noticed I don't have a couple of these settings you showed. The first one was in quality. I only have the option to choose "Automatic" but nothing with a drop-down for 'least' to 'best". I also don't have KZbin options to choose from within Custom Export. I only have the option to go to the KZbin export profile. They must have changed these in recent versions.

[@adhvaitchauhan8449]

He's got the studio version.

[@paulcomptonpdphotography]

can you save the render location as a defuault place

[@mightybob24]

love the how to videos MrAlexTech

[@TaifurGaMing]

In my case H265 is not working....😣 It shows ""Render job failed as the cuttrent clip could not be processed. "" BTW I have Laptop- HP_Pavelion Ryzen5....

[@sergentboucherie]

I'll need to check the AV1 encoder, forgot it was a thing

[@awolsniper]

Thank you! i can't believe i almost paid $300 for final cut pro when this helped me do everything needed.

[@ITISolutions]

You are Awesome!

[@OriginalRaveParty]

Quality 👍

[@CreateNowSleepLater]

Hi Alex, can you expand on why you would want a compressed format for upload? I can see for storage maybe, but wouldnt you want as uncompressed a render as possble? DNXHR etc?

[@IcelandAdventures]

Mind blown learned again !👍

[@robertlewisvideo]

Awesome Info. Thanks

[@cyberkyv]

Hi Alex, excellent all your videos. This year I am making videos only in H.265. I think the use of the codec should be promoted. Now a question about video export in HDR, I have seen videos on youtube that indicate to be in 4K HDR for example. Now, if I make a video in 4K with HDR, is the option to export a Video with HDR in Davinci Resolve only available for the Studio version? How is this option displayed? Thanks

[@KarelZweefvlieger]

THNX againagainagainagainagainagain

[@JoeCastellon]

Thanks for this video, MrAlex! Uploading directly to KZbin was something I had not contemplated because I like to review the video first. Thanks to you, I now know I can do this as part of the automatic process. Awesome! Now I need DR to allow multiple accounts for us creeps who manage more than one KZbin channel 🤣

[@challengedollar2880]

thanks for this!

[@xMortalx57]

Thank you for your tutorial Handsome

[@andersistbesser]

It would be nice if you could make a video about reducing the file size without diminishing the image quality too much. Often times even short videos have 5-10 gigabyte with all that great codecs available. How small you can get a 4k file while still lookung good and how to to it? I love your channel🙌

[@thekamanos]

thank youu brother..antony from kenya

[@Welshmanshots]

2:31 I found that H264 is good for longer videos as doesn't take that long to render and it uses the CPU, H265 uses the GPU which takes longer on long videos only just realised this when i was trying to render some dead space videos which are an hour long and resolve said it would take 2 hours to render on the H265 but when i switched back to H264 it only took 40 mins. Now that being said i do have a 2070 anyone who has a newer GPU will probably be a lot faster in H265, for now, i use H265 for smaller videos.

[@Welshmanshots]

it's it's been a few months and now I always use H265, my system is a bit weird sometimes then again i did build it myself, also i always upscale my videos to get VP9 support on KZbin instead of the AVC or whatever it is and sometimes it makes my videos look a lot better.

[@BoxingMagazine]

Because H265 lot work for compress

[@DexTag]

Is there any way to set the Location to something permanent that doesnt have to be selected each time?

[@Aliefrizkixc]

please make a video about exporting different bitrates of footage to youtube, for example i usually use my iphone, gopro etc and my main camera bmpcc4k but when uploaded to youtube as one video those phone or gopro footage quality looks blurry. Great video anyway Thankyouuu

[@thechunkydrummer]

This is great stuff! Is there a way of uploading to a channel you have editor access to and not just your main account?

[@momo4ghost771]

Thx for the helpfull video 🙏. I have a problem: my video is 13 minutes long. But when i upload it from DR on youtube it is only 10 minutes long. What could be the possible issue for that? Thank you for the answer 😊

[@AshtonLamontPhotoVideo]

Hi, thanks for the stack of very useful videos. In this one you've suggested that you could upscale an existing 1080p timeline to 4k using Custom settings. That seems to work fine but I've noticed elsewhere that others describe from the outset to first set the Project Settings to 3840x2160 or "4k" then drop your 1080p media in as normal and use Superscale. Then Export / Deliver at 3840x2160. But their method may conflict with smooth editing especially on modest workstations obviously. Many people recommend that in order to obtain a better KZbin result they always Deliver in 4k even though the actual media is 1080p, apparently because KZbin uses a superior codec called VP9 if it identifies an upload as 4k. I realise that you are using a 4k camera anyway. But do you happen to know whether if you use 1080p you can get better results if you go the Project Settings > 4k Superscale route or is the result of simply upscaling in Deliver just as good. I'm using 18.1.2 Studio on an Alienware windows 11 Ryzen 7 5800H RTX3060 32GB 2x SSD's laptop so I could do either method. Thanks.

[@AshtonLamontPhotoVideo]

Answered my own question with some more testing. Saved an existing 1080p Project as a new Project, changed Project Settings to UHD and included Image Scaling > "Scale Entire Image To Fit" for both Input and Output Scaling. Then selected video files in Media Pool and applied Super Scale 2x with Sharpness on High & Noise Reduction on Medium (n.b. you can't select Super Scale by selecting clips directly in a Multicam timeline). Delivered UHD MP4 h.265 50,000 kb/s constant bit rate (twice PAL 25fps) with Advanced ticked both Force Settings To Highest Quality and Force Debayer to Highest Quality. Appreciably better quality than straight deliver without Super Scale especially compared to a normal 1080p uploaded directly to KZbin. Takes much longer to render but still lower than real time. Studio version needed for Super Scale obviously and the GPU being RTX3060 or equivalent probably needed. Hey, if you're thinking of getting Studio you will love its Voice Isolation function.

[@genotsSnor]

​@@AshtonLamontPhotoVideo not a lot of replies here, but I'll gladly be the one to say thank you!

[@Gaurav.P0]

​@@AshtonLamontPhotoVideoThank you ☺️

nice instructions, thx for it

[@FREEDOMFPV84]

So if I'm uploading a fpv drone race fast moving 60fps 4k I would need a higher bitrate I use 120000 but when I upload to you tube it looks blochy and washed out but when I play it ony phone or laptop it's crisp and clear is it the way I'm uploading it to you tube it's really frustrating love your videos been watching them alot 👍👍👍

[@JaimeAndresMedia]

This is great Alex thank you! It's strange however, why do I not have some of the same options you have? I am on an M1 Ultra Studio with decent power and running the paid Resolve Studio version. The dropdown for Quality>Automatic Best is not available, just "Automatic" Also, for the YT export, Resolve on my computer only goes up to 2K.... Thanks for the help!

[@NZgoblin]

Thank you so much

[@dragonpower974]

Good tips. Does your video loose some quality when you import it to DaVinci Resolve?

[@pingopallo1]

Any idea why a 1080 video would look great on your computer and lose quality once uploaded on YT? as soon as I uploaded it on youtube the video became grainy and lost detail. I tried exporting many different settings: from the YT presets, to using several bitrates (up to 80,000 for a 1080 video) I tried upscaling it to 4k and even using Handbrake to have better compression.. the video ALWAYS looks great on computer but loses quality on YT.

[@oloratomokate9568]

Thank you❤

[@JimRobinson-colors]

youTube recommends using mp4, but the recommendation might be for faster uploads and smaller space. Really hard to find the words "Best quality" in any of their verbiage. "Best results" is also a term used, and no explanation as to what Best Results is referring to.

[@Desmo904]

Why can I NOT remember how to do this everytime I go to upload a video and I have to watch your video again? Hehehe! Thank you so much!

[@danielprucey9796]

Excellent tips ! I have an unrelated question. I upgrade to the current D.Resolve update and when I open D.R. I only see my saved projects that are saved on my PC harddrive.. I have project saved on an external drive...can I still find these and use this projects.... or are they lost forever? is there an easy fix?

[@abi219]

Another great tutorial 👍 I do more Instagram reels at the moment and it would be handy to know the optimal bit rate and settings for Instagram reels too 😊

[@RawRidersMoto]

Hey Alex! Thank you for this video and all the others that were very helpful! 😍 I have an issue with my most recent KZbin upload , maybe you have an idea on what's happening? I used the same rendering settings I had on all the other videos, and yet after upload it looks really shitty, pixelated and just not usable footage. I even came to this video to check if my settings were wrong by any chance, but no, everything is just as you recommend. The version in my computer is crisp and clear, but no matter what I try, upon uploading it to KZbin, it looks super bad. Do you have any advice you could give? Thank you so much and have a great day!

[@Djw8991]

AV1 is available in the free version of Resolve, I'm currently exporting using it with intel quicksync on an arc a380 gpu at about 160 fps

[@MrAlexTech]

Oh that’s interesting! Tbh i forgot the Arc GPUS existed ha, how is it?!

[@Djw8991]

​@@MrAlexTech Very Impressive honestly I just picked up the a380 since they're available for around $140 to just use as an encoding card paired with a 3060ti. Even in h265 it almost halfs my encode time for 1080p content

[@Bnplay69]

Thank you for giving us this very precious information. your comment should be top comment.

[@aerobrain2001]

For saving the presets, do you need to save one for each frame rate or will it always automatically adjust the frame rate to your project? (Appreciate worst case you can just change that single setting each time, I'm jus forgetful 😀)

[@epiccitybuilders]

Thanks this helped a lot 👍

[@LaposMovies]

Thanks for the video. Is there an option, to change uploadspeed in DaVinci? I use normally Chrome ,because there I can set the uploadspeed (in the developertools) . Overwise I would block the internet for all in my household. ;-)

[@MrAlexTech]

Hey there! I don't think there is actually! It will likely just gobble up all your bandwidth 😄

[@LaposMovies]

@@MrAlexTech ;-) Thank you.

[@louloowebvideos]

TOP Alex !!!

[@aaphotofilm]

This is awesome Alex, but just a question, what if you recorded different clips in different frame rates? is that possible? i found that it crashes out, as what you said in 3:47 you cant alter the FPS?

[@michaelsopunov]

Feel sad a little coz not explained GREAT section with "Chapters from Markers" on Delivery page - this do really helpfull Job for you by uploading vid's to youtube. I have a really big respect for chapters in EVERY Alex's videos 😊👍👍 Great job ever! 🤘🤘

[@ojciecvaader9279]

thanx!

[@marclattoni1959]

Thanks!

[@RandyReviews1990]

i like Casey Farris he makes good tutorials i found him on Kevin stravert's channel!

[@Zeb_Fields]

big help!

[@amadeuszmurek4782]

Hi. Would you consider add timestamps for youtube tutorial as suplement for this? :)