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 TH-cam 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.

[@BackroadExploits]

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

[@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

[@ADV_Agenda]

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

[@dadstalktech]

I shoot all our videos in 1080p, but I upscale everything in DR to 4K for TH-cam. 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 TH-cam 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 TH-cam lowers my resolution 😢 thankfully I use davinci and this makes sense to me lol thanks for the tips!

[@williamhouston559]

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

[@onyourmarkss]

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

[@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 TH-cam 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.

[@KirkwoodImaging]

For TH-cam 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.

[@Leader1623]

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

[@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 TH-cam. Excellent. Thx Alex.

[@robhurley5258]

Excellent, thank you!

[@parkusplays]

Your videos have been so helpful, keep up the awesome work!!!

[@rith2757]

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

[@michael_tunnell]

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

[@williamhouston559]

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

[@vibewhen]

yes this is a feature available only to partners who use TH-cam'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

[@MikeyGRetro]

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

[@PartTimeCollector]

Super helpful, thank you!

[@sayedebrahim7]

❤ thank you for amazing videos

[@mightybob24]

love the how to videos MrAlexTech

[@ThailandVIPTravels]

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

[@Kompakuta]

thank you!

[@paulcain548]

Super useful as always. Cheers Alex 👍🏻

[@wingrovedl]

Thank You Alex ! I needed a good reminder. ⏳

[@IlseMulAuthor]

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

[@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 🙏

[@truewiking]

Brilliant as always 🙏 learned a lot

[@Foomba]

Always helpful and in good humor. 👍

[@awolsniper]

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

[@freddymiguelponce]

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

[@ITISolutions]

You are Awesome!

[@avi8tor330]

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

[@thegoofyguy]

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

[@Troutbitten]

Thanks

[@DennisSchmitz]

One, the probably most important setting to improve video quality was left out entirely:
Encoding Profile: Main10.
This will trigger 10 bit encoding, which is not an issue for TH-cam. It will eliminate any banding artefacts and keep way more texture.

[@MrAlexTech]

Hey hey! I skipped it as its not available within the free version, and it's limited to H.265. But you are right, I should have mentioned it in passing (similarly to AV1).
My intent was for this video to more aimed to free users, but I didn't communicate that well with the title so I've amended 👍🙂

[@MrAlexTech]

Additional clarity:
For Windows users, it's only available in the Studio version
For Mac users, it's available for all (free and studio - although will likely depend on hardware too) and its the default option when selecting H.265 (so it doesn't need amending)

[@JimRobinson-colors]

Nice catch Dennis

[@bern047]

FREE ? THAT IS WHAT WE WANT

[@AllThingsFilm1]

Fantastic tutorial. Thank you SO much.

[@HenryPedia]

Thank you Alex. Very helpful.

[@BlackHat302Gaming]

Awesome, thank you, I knew about the presets, but could never do auto upload to TH-cam. 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.

[@UpNorthHandyman]

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

[@successjoegeorge]

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

[@flixmyswitch]

Will have to check my settings

[@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.

[@Driver.55]

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

[@WaddleAero]

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

[@GaryCunninghamyouareenough]

So helpful as always, Alex - cheers man 🙏

[@JustBrusselsThings]

Thank you for the video! I forgot to change 'Render' to 'Entire timeline' on the delivery page, which meant I only got one clip of the video I made. Good tip to make sure it renders the entire timeline instead of just one clip.

[@dsawakening]

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

[@NZgoblin]

Thank you so much

[@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....

[@aevidaudi]

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

[@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 TH-cam result they always Deliver in 4k even though the actual media is 1080p, apparently because TH-cam 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 TH-cam.
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 ☺️

[@iTzZigma]

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

[@tinthefatty]

Great helpful video. Love it!

[@RandyReviews1990]

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

[@teddyperera8531]

This is really helpful. Thank you

[@IcelandAdventures]

Mind blown learned again !👍

[@AngelGarcess]

Thank youuu

[@Akumagamer6427]

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

[@thekamanos]

thank youu brother..antony from kenya

[@TheRealBarkinMadd]

Well done, Sir. Thanks for posting.

[@allenpayne9182]

Some reasons why you should not use h264 or h265 for rendering:
1. I like to separate the rendering process from compressing the image. It renders faster and you have to check the render anway. Quality control.
2. After rendering a ProRes or DNxHR master you can use external tools like handbrake to convert the files to h264. If the file size is to big you don´t have to render your moviue again. You just have to convert the already rendered DNxHR file again. Time saver!
3. the h264, h265 codec in DaVinci is not as good as handbrake or shutter encoder. You can pixelpeep and test it yourself

[@MrAlexTech]

Solid information, thanks! :) I need spend some more time with handbrake!
But do you do that for TH-cam videos?! Seems overkill as the YT compression will just likely mitigate any gains.

[@allenpayne9182]

True. But no matter if it is Instagram, Facebook or TH-cam. I always try to render the best image.
4k for TH-cam because the 1080p verison wlll look better, too. I think this is important.
And "rendering" and "compressing" at once will NOT save you time. As I wrote. Better split it up. Render the fiolm in Resolve. Later compress the file. Those are two processes and IMo should be handled as two.
You can set up a preset in handbrake or shutter encoder, so you just have to drop the file in. Select your preset and hit render. It is 3 clicks.
I know people are beginng for "the BEST youtube" render settings. but "the BEST" is to render a ProRes or DNxHR file.
TH-cam / Vimeo also are fine with ProRes and DNxHR. If your video is just 1 or 2 minutes.. .you can upload a DNxHR instead of h264.
If you are doing vlog, sure upload a h264 straight out of Resovle. But If you are working on a commercial or music video and want best quality... please do not render a h264 file in Resolve.

[@MrAlexTech]

​@@allenpayne9182 I think it makes for an interesting discussion tbf, but it's not my intent of this video.
Resolve is available for literally everyone (including Uncle Bob making his fishing videos or Aunta Donna making her cupcakes!). Adding additional processes for arguably very minimal gains (especially following TH-cam compression) just overcomplicates it and adds barriers to the process.
I have no doubt DNx etc will give you better results, but is it the best process?! I'd argue not, especially for largest proportion of Resolve users who are free amateur users (i consider myself in this group - although with Studio).
If this video was a 30 minute explainer about the benefits of DNxHR and an introduction into the intricacies of Handbrake. It would have the opposite effect of my intent i.e. it would be much more likely to discourage people, rather than encourage them to get stuck in!

[@allenpayne9182]

@@SystemParanoia what you wrote is wrong. H265 will take much longer time to render than DNxHR.

[@allenpayne9182]

@@SystemParanoia DNxHR will also be rendered by your GPU and because of the design it renders way faster. H265 is the slowest to render. Maybe you are rendering to the same sdd and got bottlenecked.

[@Im_billa]

I've been using Sony Vegas for about 14 years now and I'm so tired of the program. It's amazing how advanced Davinci is. Sony Vegas crashes constantly and has done so for over 10 years, no matter which version I used. Thanks for the video!

[@JoeCastellon]

Thanks for this video, MrAlex! Uploading directly to TH-cam 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 TH-cam channel 🤣

[@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.

[@challengedollar2880]

thanks for this!

[@xMortalx57]

Thank you for your tutorial Handsome

[@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.

[@epiccitybuilders]

Thanks this helped a lot 👍

[@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! 🤘🤘

[@robertlewisvideo]

Awesome Info. Thanks

[@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 😊

[@ryanhill1605]

Render babyyyyyyyyy

[@sergentboucherie]

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

[@MIMCKMedia]

I have the problem, that I can't upload clips, rendered from davinci, to TH-cam 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

[@roleselvagem]

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

[@OriginalRaveParty]

Quality 👍

nice instructions, thx for it

[@louloowebvideos]

TOP Alex !!!

[@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 TH-cam options to choose from within Custom Export. I only have the option to go to the TH-cam export profile. They must have changed these in recent versions.

[@adhvaitchauhan8449]

He's got the studio version.

[@Brado231]

Great video as always. Thanks. I'd love to see a video on optimising renders for platforms that need smaller video file sizes (whilst limiting compression they do themselves on that platform) to obtain the best video quality possible, within their size constraints. Examples would be those shared through Facebook messenger (25MB), Whatsapp (16MB), Signal (100MB) and Instagram (650MB

[@kigai.]

ty boss

[@oloratomokate9568]

Thank you❤

[@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?

[@KarelZweefvlieger]

THNX againagainagainagainagainagain

[@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 TH-cam instead of the AVC or whatever it is and sometimes it makes my videos look a lot better.

[@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.

[@TomaszTwojFotograf]

hi Alex, how to manage YT upload in Davinci Studio - when I have several YT accounts as a manager?

[@Zeb_Fields]

big help!

[@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

[@watchluster]

I find that h.264 and h.265 causes glitches when I render in DR with either encoding. I've had the same problem with other editors but increasing the quality takes care of it but so far in DR with highest quality settings the glitches still happen especially when you go from one image to another image and a bit of the old image is still left glitched out on the new image. Very very annoying as I can't reliably render out a video and have to constantly check over and over. Almost makes me want to just drop DR and go back to caveman editing.

[@TroyQwert]

Why not to stick with TH-cam recommended bit rates?

[@genegustafson715]

I followed all instructions, but You Tube says my file cannot be read. What am I missing?

[@PapaEmoRides]

i shoot at 1080/30 on my gopro; Question is what should be my proj settings? I was told make it 1080/24 or 25 (lower), or make it same (30fps), or make it 4k/60 (higher than my original settings;) Now im more confused; :( Pls help!

[@caciquemusic4953]

This is great but it keeps showing me UNABLE TO CONNECT WITH YOUR ACCOUNT (tried with youtube and twitter).

[@Soulboundx1]

Nice

[@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 😀)

[@paulcomptonpdphotography]

can you save the render location as a defuault place

[@MilkyPandaWay-lz4nf]

What render settings would you recommend for racing gameplay video for TH-cam?

[@ojciecvaader9279]

thanx!

[@nimakqz4429]

Why my davinci doesn't have a quality restrict to button? its just automatic. where's the problem?