Easily Edit VERTICAL VIDEO in DaVinci Resolve 18.1 | NEW FEATURE

One of the new features in Davinci Resolve 18.1 is the ability to quickly adjust your video resolution to accommodate vertical video projects that are perfect to output to social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels and Instagram Stories and YouTube Shorts. In this video, I'll show you how to quickly adjust your vertical video settings in Davinci Resolve 18.1 from both the Project Settings and Timeline Settings menus. We'll also look at how you can save your perfect vertical video or square video settings as a default preset to use quickly in your next project.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
00:39 - Why might we want Vertical Video?
01:08 - Change Timeline Resolution in Project Settings
01:51 - Changing Timeline Resolution to Vertical Aspect
02:15 - Adjusting our video clip to vertical resolution
03:27 - Switch to vertical resolution from Timeline Settings
05:16 - Smart Reframe Tool for Studio users
05:29 - Save settings as default preset
05:59 - Final Thoughts
06:22 - Thanks for watching and supporting channel

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[AlexCameron-Depiqd]

Who here edits vertical video and is this something that’s going to help you? Which platforms are you editing for mainly? 👍🏻

[thegeniusdeveloper]

Searched the whole yt... but found the solution here. Thank u so much.

[BSPoK]

Thank you so much, that's exactly what I was looking for but didn't know how to write the question

[EmetHaTorah]

Thanks for the great video tips, Alex. I have a problem that I can't find anyone else mentioning (either in your comments or on YouTube in general). When I covert my timeline to vertical format, I lose the ability to pan my clips. It's like my clips are cropped and I don't have any data extending to the left or right of the frame. I've searched and searched to find a solution to this but am not even finding anyone mention this. Is this something you've ever experienced? Do you have any suggestions where I could look to "Resolve" this? (Sorry… couldn't resist) Thanks again!

[DomBloch]

It is great! Thank you! But it doesn't allow me to create 4K vertical videos. Which is sad.
Do you guys think they will put this feature in a new update?

[CGVega]

Yo. is there a way to have the workspace work with vert videos? There's a lot of dead space on the sides of the video player, and it's very small. Any way to have it be longways on the side?

[nagriamel]

thank you for sharing this video. I have been experimenting with vertical films recently. Is it better to shoot the footage horizontal and then edit to vertical using this method or shoot the footage in vertical and then edit?

[bianx]

Hello Alex! Thank you for making this video. This is my first time using DaVinci Resolve so please bear with me a moment. I need some help regarding vertical video. I shot my videos vertically on a BMPCC OG, uploaded the footage into Resolve, but it is all coming out horizontal and each clip needs to be rotated somehow. Even when I create a new timeline with the vertical aspect ratio you suggested here, the video footage itself is horizontal. How do I fix this? Like I said I am a 100% complete newbie so will need careful instruction somehow. Unless you have a video you can direct me to. I'd really appreciate the assistance. this is a very intimidating program and quite frustrating as you can imagine. Thank you!

[zurk]

Thank you so much! I have been trying to do this for almost a week and all the videos I found weren't helpful until this one. Great tutorial!

[Moroder_Drone]

good video alex, but sometimes i need to see the whole recording when, for example I am using a 16.9 filming.
Normally i need to see whats out of the frame, at the left and at the right
how can i do that?
thanks

[KnightmareOX]

Hi Alex, great tutorial! Question for you, if you had lower thirds text overlays is there an easy way to reframe it for vertical or do you have to reframe and scale it all manually in the vertical timeline?

[steveshields]

Well done video, Alex. I really appreciate how quickly you got to the point. Thank you.

[kikiLafleurGlam]

Thank you! You are a genius! Thank you for resetting the time line to a universal resolution then showing us how to ad a vertical one. It was exactly what I needed.

[sebasfilmedit]

Hey can you do this in 4k resolution? If not, why doesn’t it give you that option?

[crypastesomemore]

What about the mismatched setting for output? Should that be changed too? Thank you for the video.

[starchitect]

Thank you very much, you just saved me a month worth of time.

[JoATTech]

Great tutorial ... thx. I was not aware of timeline level setting for the crop.

[JimRobinson-colors]

Hey Alex - the smart reframe is something that I completely forgot about. The idea of Resolve being able to keep a person in frame is an interesting concept that I had hoped could be used on any clip if zoomed in. I wish they would look into that functionality. I used to edit and grade concert footage and in some situations the camera or the lens is not enough to get close up work on the singers or instruments. So in the past to follow a singer I would do a lot of keyframing. And then to do it inside a multicam copy was even more difficult. So when I first say the smart reframing I thought that it might work on any clip ( I don't think it does ). Nice job on this one.
cheers.

[TrusteftReacts]

Can you do vertical 4K with the free version? Or are limited to 1080p? Also, there is support for 1440p, right? Thanks.

[sameeradhikari]

after doing all of these in edit page, the fusion page still shows it in horizontal resolution and its hard to work there.