The Best Export Settings for Davinci Resolve 18 (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels)

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📒 Show Notes 📒

⏰ Timecodes ⏰
0:00 - Best Export Settings for Davinci Resolve 18
0:14 - The Best Export Settings for Youtube (1080p)
1:37 - The Best Export Settings for Youtube (4k)
3:16 - The Best Export Settings for Tiktok & Reels

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[BillyRybka]

Hey everyone! I hope this video is helpful for you! Let me know what you want to learn next!

[raymobula]

Instead of resizing the clips manually, go to the cut page.

In the top right corner under Timeline Resolution select a dimension templates, e.g., portrait. To scale all footage, under Timeline resolution > Timeline Settings change Mismatches Resolution to Scale full frame with crop. If grayed out, deselect Project Settings.

In the edit tab, adjust the X center to your liking.

[AdamSzarmack]

Just my thoughts but I don’t think it’s wise to use “scale entire image to fit” in the project settings and then manually resize footage. By doing that you’re no longer scaling up the original quality of your footage but instead scaling up a rasterized version hence detail and data loss. It honestly surprises me how many Resolve channels get this wrong.

[ChristineHals]

Hey Billy, just found your channel and I am so grateful. You're spot on with all your info so I don't feel like wasting time and your energy keeps my attention. Looking forward to learning more about Davinci Resolve from you.

[experimentalphilosophy]

Thanks Billy! I used this for both my first video and my first short! I'm grateful for your channel :)

[daxadventure]

In the past you tested all the different settings, and if I remember correctly we're using h265, quicktime, and double the frame rate. I am very appreciative of your work, just trying to understand the change

[oezaxs]

Actual lifesaver of a video just for the bitrate bit. I don't understand it myself why that works but my video rendered without a weird grainy look in certain spots where clips were stitched together. I was losing my mind trying to solve that. Thank you!

[dannytran]

i tested these cases (shot in 4k, vertical already, intended for TT). Results are sorted from best to worst:
Time line horizontal in 4k, export in 4k, 5kbs - upload by phone app
Time line horizontal in 4k, export in 4k, 5kbs - upload by web browser
Time line horizontal in 4k, export in FHD, 5kbs - upload by web browser
Time line vertical in FHD, export in FHD, 5kbs - upload by web browser

[NoLabCoatRequired]

Great video. Someone told me to set my quality to 60, 000 because my video files are in 30fps. They said to multiply 30 by 2 then add some zeros lol. I've been doing that ever since. But watching this, i just realized "quality" isn't connected to fps. its connected to resolution... right? Or am i wrong?

Whats the reasoning behind setting it to 45k?

[Goggledreams]

DUDE! I just realized paid attention to the last frame of your video! [LIKE A BOSS] 💥🔥🔥🔥🔥💥💪

[thinmint]

Thanks for being the only person to make a straightforward video on this

[weeblbob]

Wasn't what I was looking for but thanks for the advice.

[dannylightning-audio-reviews]

if you choose quick time instead of mp4, when you go to0 audio export settings you can choose PCM instead of AAC, PCM should be lossless audio

[sectorfilms]

Gidday Billy, DR 18.5 Entropy mode should that be left at AUTO or CAVLC or CABAC. Cheers John

[TheCalmWoodsman]

Billy huge cold beer for You!!! Thanks!!!

[joefilbrun]

Thanks for this. Your channel is awesome! Please keep up the great work. One observation I made (not sure if it was a fluke) was that when I uploaded the same 4K video using both h.265 and h.264, YouTube did the HD encoding (1080p and 4K) much, much faster with the h.265 format. Have you noticed similar results?

[canalshh]

Thanks a lot, man! This is the first video that explains everything really and objectively. Congrats and keep going!

[fosres]

Great video. Epidemic Sound is an amazing service! I use it myself.

[dynastyispexperimental]

Awesome video. Have this saved to my favorites.

[MinistryMediaSolutionz]

Thanks so much for sharing this. I export for my YouTube channel all the time and never thought to check and change these settings. I appreciate it!