Export and Render Settings in DaVinci Resolve for Delivery and Archive

There are 4x main type of renders we use for every commercial project and these are explained in this video. See below for chapters and please consider subscribing to this channel to support these videos!

0:00 - Render Settings Overview
1:35 - 01. H.264 Draft Render for online Review
5:16 - 02. H.264 Final Master for Online Delivery
9:12 - 03. ProRes 4444 Archival Master
11:04 - 04. ProRes Archival Master (Flat pass with no effects)
13:45 - Render Settings Summary

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[JohnnyAllen_]

Its not every day Christopher Nolan teaches you professional davinci skills. Thank you good sir!

[camnai]

Thank you, sir. Perfect succinct delivery. I've learned more from this video than any other on this subject. Subscribed in an instant.

[thedxrrkside]

Half way watching the video....and wow!...Thanks a lot

[graysonnapier]

Great video, didn't know about the timelime upscale of resolution.. cheers!

[andrewmason]

I'm loving your videos, Josh. It makes me want to start being nice to Kiwis, which is not easy for an Aussie. Jokes, of course. But your videos giving me insight into areas I haven't heard before. Thanks.

[hamradiowithkevin]

This will take some practice getting used to these render options.
Great video, thank you Joshua

[RewildingFilms]

Thanks for this, I find the export settings in Resolve really counterintuitive and this helped clarify things! You'd think 'Auto' would give higher results than imposing a kb/s limit, but my deliverables were coming out really poor quality. Setting the limit to 80, 000kb/s really sharpened things up.

[XYZXYZ-dbbs]

Thankyou for this tutorial I am searching for this

[bernardubrich]

Thanks a lot for your one question about ProRes....got 4K drone footage in 10 bit, so I use 422 HQ in place of 4444....should I use ( use constant bit rate or not ) considering constant is a quiet more heavy ? Or unchecking constant would not be visible ? regard from France 🙏🏽👏🏾👏🏾👍🏽

[MedusaJellyFish]

This video was wonderful, wonderful, thank you for your knowledge. 🌹

[geoffreymee]

So well explained Joshua. I've subscribed - thank you.

[MedusaJellyFish]

Wow, thank you for this wonderful topic. You are the best. 🌺

[michelecattaneo]

Hi Joshua, your export system is very interesting. Well done!

[jamestramm]

Thanks for putting this online. Really helped me.

[samsol]

That was super informativ! Thanks so much :) Quick workflow question since you are archiving the flat render for later use, do you delete all the original Footage after wards to safe storage?

[pierrerobert]

Thanks for the video. Question (beginner).
On a sequence of 5 shots I performed on 1 of the shots
changes in brightness, contrast, etc... and it works very well BUT when I finalize (export) it's as if I hadn't done anything on this shot, the final render remain the same as the original shot? Did I miss something?

[rogeriofreitas]

Thanks for your help, the explanation are very good, I wold like to make a Blu-ray disc, what is the better configuration to export, if you cold help me, thanks very much, Rogerio from Brazil

[GuoNuoMinGGG]

Dude, your tutorial is so cool, I love you!!

[misperlasfilming]

Tus videos son excelentes. Muchas felicidades por el gran trabajo. Una duda, por qué para subir a youtube prefieres el h.264? siempre subo en h, 265, debería exportar mejor en h, 264 para youtube? Mi metraje siempre es desde video RAw. Un abrazo.

[lisale_brows]

Awesome! I work on a PC, should I be tagging rec709-A as well just to ensure people viewing on a mac device dont have a gamma shift?