Why do YOUR videos look like sh** on YouTube?
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I will show you Resolve's best UA-cam export settings in this video.
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0:00 Intro
0:39 Test Criteria
2:02 UA-cam Preset
2:24 UA-cam Recommended
3:34 Free Webinar
4:00 H264 Default
4:13 Overkill
4:35 H264 Custom
5:03 Handbrake
6:24 File sizes compared
8:07 AB Test - Talking head
10:54 AB Test - Resolve UI
13:32 Footage handoff tips
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Man, I've seen your videos from the very beginning. Really I'm amazed how you´ve improved in every detail, not just about the technical aspects, but in your communication skills. Really, really, congrats. Maybe you think is not noticed, but believe me, it's noticed.
Appreciate the love. Seriously, means a lot. Been a long journey and yeah old sh** is cringy asf. 🤣
@@theqazman😅 you are crazy
@@theqazman oh, no man, enjoy the journey.
@theqazman sorry but for Windows user, what is the recommandation then? H264 Master standard?
Great educator and educational video - loved it. subscribed and watching several of your videos now. Keep it up, Qazi!
Man, I’ve been using that YT preset in Resolve and I can’t thank you enough for passing on this knowledge. You’re the man.
never ever use presets
thats what custom is for and custom is always better
the only exception if custom is very complicated like 100 codec and what looks million of possible combination
thats what advanced settings are for in that case
Awesome Video man. Thank You for this!
This is AMAZING Waqas, frfr. I needed this.
Happy to help, brother.
The content is amazing as always!
Fantastic analysis and great video, thank you!
This is so helpful, thank you!
Right off the bat, this fixed a MASSIVE blocking issue I was having with some night scenes. Thank you!
We love you bro ! that was a lot
Por qué eres tan genial???
GRACIAAAS! Información que buscaba por todos lados y has resuelto todas mis dudas!
So goood, thanks for your dedicated work
Happy to do it.
finally !! exported using your preset and the output turned out way better than my previous ones... thanks a ton Qazi
Happy to help.
Just a thing that would be nice to add in your test, even thou is very little used, is a ProRes version directly uploaded to UA-cam, for testing purposes. At the time I tested it didn't give me noticeable improvement but with your grain test it would be nice to see how it would hold. Also, the big file size from Handbrake was due to the "normal" preset. A "veryslow" preset would make a smaller file size for the same quality, so increasing the bitrate to +-65Mb/s could make a more solid version with a similar filesize. By doing a rule of 3 from file sizes, the Automatic bitrate settings from Custom/Default was 65Mb/s, a more proper bitrate for a H264 Delivery Master. The standard is 35Mb/s for Full HD, so 4K should be 4 times more for a Cinematographer's quality check (the most you would want to have on a H264). But the caveat is, with Resolve, Auto is always better, I neved did figure out why having high bitrate would make things worse that Auto. For other encoders I set manually to 35Mb/s (FHD) and 140Mb/s (4K) for extreme quality and lower depending on the delivery.
Also, for whoever is interested: I like (nowadays) Resolve H264 export. They give me almost the best result, so it's my standard practive to export a ProRes and then make all the H264 copies from that, on projects that I need that big master. Mostly TV and Features, but some videclips too. No changes at all from exporting directly, so it's a good way of making deliveries instead of going Adobe ME or always exporting from source. I've even, strangely, seen improvements in some cases on H264 exported from ProRes instead of direct export. Also, one thing to look at too is custom export API's for Resolve that are on the market (paid and free) as they improve customization and uses FFMpeg. Also, for the best size/quality ration, the only perfect way of having the best quality on the smallest file size is through ProRes > FFMpeg on terminal, because the API for Resolve is very limited and dependent on the work from the community. This is good for size restrictions like Vimeo. Cheers!
You earned a sub! Thanks for the video!
BIG HELP! Thank You!!!!
Great video. I always wondered about this. Very informative. Cheers.
You're welcome
thanks bro, just what i needed
Yes ! I noticed it times ago but your tests are very usefull !
Thx
Badass video bro! Cheers from Venezuela. 👏🏻👊🏻
Ty
Thank you for this awesome Content!
good stuff man! thank you
Amazing how these setting changed the look of my uploaded work... THANK YOU!!!
Learn and apply, my dude. Love it.
Holy Cow 🐮
That was awesome 😎
Thanks brother!!!
Of course. 😀
Great video. I’ll be checking my settings later. A video I watched a while back recommended a bit rate of 2,000x your frame rate for 4K. I shoot in 4K 30fps and so I have my 4K preset at a bitrate of 60,000. Maybe I need to tweak it, but H.264 preset is definitely the way to go.
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I always use a custom HVENC/H265 export for UA-cam. There seems no point in delivering using an H264 codec when H265 is so much more efficient -- allowing more detail for a given filesize. So long as you also select the "network" option on the deliver page the processing time on the YT end is also super-fast with a 20 minute video taking only 5-6 minutes for YT to render and have available at 4K on the platform.
What do you mean?
@ 🤣
There's a color shift that happens when exporting SDR content using h265 and that's the reason why it's not a standard.
H265 is recommended for HDR.
I am glad to see a colorist finally tackle the Gamma shift issue. That said it raises the question, so if you export h.264 with the default settings, the uploaded will look as intended? is the only reason that you choose the "custom" version with the other tags to fix the issue that you have when viewing on apple devices/applications? (I.e Quicktime)
Followup question. These options are just for online uploads correct. If you were coloring for broadcast, you would export as the normal 709 gamma 2.4, unless otherwise specified by the client?
@@theqazman Yeah! I was wondering that myself on why you didn't test out h.265, but I guess that makes sense. Does there happen to be a color shift issue as well when it comes to exporting with AV1? It's the new codec around the block when it comes to being the most efficient codec. I've been doing double exports on my PC, from DNxHR in Davinci to Handbrakes built-in AV1 software encoder. However, your result of having chattering video when exporting again in Handbrake does put my method a bit into questioning now. Davinci does support exporting AV1 natively, but I guess that's only limited on PC with the latest Nvidia and AMD GPU's. I'm genuinely curious tho cause AV1 preserves film grain by reconstructing it live. So it would analyze the grain pattern, remove it, and reconstruct it live while viewing it to save up on space. Also UA-cam does have some support when it comes it AV1. You can upload videos in AV1, however for it to playback in AV1, that is only limited to certain creators or uploading videos in 8k. If either of those criterias doesn't meet, then it just transcodes the video to the standard, VP9.
Very useful. I solved the Mac Gamma problem by viewing my timeline with Rec.709a as the setting, and then exporting the same way. All looks the same on the Mac in Quictime as it does in Resolve, and also on UA-cam.
The other thing that I do is to use H.265 with the goal of having more information in a smaller file size. Have you done any expermentation looking at H.265 vs H.264?
Thanks for all your excellent content!
Great video! Next time can you include MP4 vs QuickTime formats and H.264 vs H.265?
What!!!! I was looking for the best yt export settings just now 😂 and u dropped it ⚡️
I gtochu.
Very helpful, thank you!
Do you set your project color space to rec 709 A? Amazing video, always useful tips from you, thank you 🙏
Just as I shared the older sRGB video with a friend who needed help for Insta. Thanks Qazi!
Let's go! 💪🏽
Thank you very much!
For exports from mac you have to do your normal inputs on the first node and out put to DWG, on your output node output in rec709 and rec709A , then begin grading. This will also give you a color profile of 1-1-1 which will have a consistent look on all browsers.
yeah thats also with davinci resolve where you set export file data same as project or was it same as source
meaning the data on the recorded file should match davinci settings
but dont forget about color bits
and then chrome subsampling
the standard is 4:2:0
you would be lucky if it can go 4:2:2
and the best is 4:4:4 but due to limitations of editing software they will refuse to read it or bypass it automatically converting to lower settings and that especially noticeable with export
for average video editor that steals content for tiktok wont care what color bit rate and what video bit rate even is but then youre a serious creator you will learn these things that didnt existed before you started
and then youtube compression stacks what export already took away from file quality meaning export takes 25% of the quality data and youtube compression takes the rest
leaving your video lesser of what it was
Just at the time i needed! =D
Hi, thank you for the detailed comparison! That's very helpful!
That said, have you considered comparing to h265? This just might be an even better codec to use.
Was looking for this as well.
I use H.265 and have noticed a significant improvement.
Same Quality with smaller file size. Im using it with 40k Mbps limit on 4K/30 and get much smaller files than the default h.264 as mentioned in the video. About 1/3 of the size. Quality looks the same. Can definitely recommend that.
if you can convert to h265 cause its better efficiency where it can hold more quality for lower bit rate compared to h264
but no matter what youtube gonna convert h265 to h264 unless your channel meets invisible requirements to reencode to h265
but run tests if you can read h265 encoded format trough your video editor and 9/10 will pass while some dont and im looking at resolve and the fix i found was just getting h265 extension then i should not needed it since hardware is 100% designed to be capable of reading and writing in h265 codec
thats why then you look at stats for nerds on small channel they 99% of the time will get avc1 codec on 1080p
and all big channel never have avc1 codec and the only exception if they uploaded and published it without letting youtube fully render the uploaded video
which is basically making a seconds freshly uploaded video public in SD resolution
but small creators have avc1 codec permanently while big channels in a span of few hours gonna get vo09 codec cause youtube finds their video a bit more valuable
@@gradingcafe In my experience YT doesn't care at all about how efficiently you pack the *same* information into the file. In other words, if a larger 60Mbps H.264 file has the same detail as a 45Mbps H.265 file, then YT will re-render it to the same output. Since I often do several cycles of full render watch and tweaking, the time saved using H.264 is more valuable. And with a 1Gig fiber, file size doesn't matter much to me.
This is so good. Immensely helpful. Thank you.
You're welcome
@theqazman thanks for sharing your knowledge and THANKS for tackling the gamma shift problem in such a direct and simple way. Just a couple of quick questions, though...
Since I'm on a MBP 16" M2 and using Resolve's Color Management (Davinci Wide Gamut) do I need to:
1- set my working color space to REC 709-A or gamma 2.4 is fine?
2- check or UN-check the "use Mac display color profiles" preference option?
Thanks again!
Great content thx you.
Newby question but if it's not for UA-cam, is there others parameters / codecs that would be much more optimal for quality ?
Thx for your advice
Waqas you are a genius. Thank you.
Damm lee best video ever. Thank you sir
Awesome as per usual, so thanks first of all for this ! One slightly off topic question, and no worries if you don't respond, but did I see you have your Dropbox on an external drive? If I got that wrong please ignore me, but if you do somehow have it on an external drive, can you tell me how you did that? It has been my dream for a LONG LONG time to get Dropbox working on an external drive instead of being forced into the area on my Mac Dropbox defines. thanks in advance !
Hey Qazi, quick question....when you do graphics and fx like lower thirds and other effects for your videos...do you grade the footage after the FX have been put on, or grade the footage independently, then put those effects on top?
I grade my footage first.
Incredibly helpful! Thanks so much for this 🙏
But what about uploading in ProRes??
About the UA-cam preset, I had a feeling it was bad after looking at the file size. Hence I never used it. Also I had no idea h.265 had a colour shift.
I also did a ton of test regarding this topic a while ago.
I personally use H.265 instead of H.264 because its the more advanced codec. There are compatibility issues possible with other application and for web for example, but for UA-cam thats fine.
My settings for 4K/30 are H.265 default preset with 40Mbps limit. I think thats the sweetspot between quality and file size for best results. The resulting files are less than 1/3 of the default H.264 Export.
higher efficiency is always better then previous codec
theres also bit color depth and most standard is 8-bit and the uncommon standard is 10-bits
you might be able to record in 10-bits 65mbps bit rate for 1080p but if you export with it gonna automatically convert to 8-bits and lose some bit rate cause thats why you always choose custom settings cause you know better and these drones that recommend you doing dont know better
and always remember that bit rate scales with resolution your 4K 40mbps is the minimum then it could have 80mbps and have less bit rate artifacting on rapid movement or color change
but higher bit rate and resolution costs performance and storage space for the user
giant corporations can afford extreme high capacity storage but a common user cant
they look for excuses to make it easier for them not for you and its easier to downgrade your videos to low bit rate to save storage space but then why they dont give you higher efficiency codec if a codec can compress a video but have way less compromise on quality
cause they hate small creators and treat them like common garbage
otherwise there would be no need to use low efficiency codec and it becomes obsolete and left in the past like these floppy disks no one uses
I did the test and the quality is noticeably better with this settings. However, the size seems to be 1.5x bigger.
I don't see where you can enter 40Mbps. There is "Restrict to 10000 Kb/s" box though.
@@tonycaine5930 just put 40,000 in the field in that section.
@@tonycaine5930 compression vs codec efficiency
why do you think small creators get avc1 codec
the rest get vp09
and some thats above average get av01
Can you do a h.264 and h.265 comparison please
i wish to see h.264 and h.265 comparison
Thank you Qazi!
You're welcome
Should I color grade each video clip separately or the final project as a whole? Thank you! GREAT video btw!
Thanks for freebies qazi 🔥👍🏽
Your video inspired me to start my first UA-cam Shorts Channel. So far posted 5 Videos and got around 10K views. I know its not much, but I am really enjoying this new found passion. Thank you 😊
Hey
Recently found your channel its been really helpful in learning stuff new to me. Found time to watch free webinar. Its been a lot of information, so I will have to rewatch it.
But I believe something happened and I couldn’t get powergrades/example footage/luts. Is there a way I can get them? Couldn’t find an email so I write here.
Once again, I really enjoyed watching your stuff, keep it up
Welcome to the channel. Dm me on IG and I'll hook it up.
Great video,it works. Thanks. Just one thing - as soon as I import your settings in Davinci, when I want to export, I cannot change the name of the Video, it remains stagnant as ‘timeline1’. I am unable to rename it. Is that a bug?
Hey not sure if u remember me. I criticised your the grading of your youtube videos about a year ago. You were confused and said it looks good. Just coming back to say: NOW it looks good! Love it
I always use h264. But the doubt I had was about exporting HD videos. Should I export 1080p into 4k? Or 1080p is fine? Will youtube treat it differently if 1080p upscaled to 4k is uploaded. I couldn't notice the difference in vlc, but haven't done a comparison like you have. Please let me know your thoughts.
Definitely export in 4K if you want the best quality. Even if your footage is 1080, upscale in the export. UA-cam has really low bitrates for streaming 1080p, if you upload 4K your viewers will be able to benefit from the much higher bitrate
Wow. Gonna try this. Thanks!
You're welcome
Love this detailed video! Wish there was one this detailed for Premiere. The exports are killing me
Thank you for the great video ❤ what I also see is, that a lot of videos on Instagram do have a yellowish/greenish tint on skintones - I see it on other channels and on my own uploads. 😮
So I have to use h265 because I need to export in Main10 rather than Main, because the footage is 10bit. Would you do a similar process for that?
Waqas : thanks mate!! you ROCK!!!!
thanks Qazi ,i'd like to know whats the best quality setting i can export my graded files to send to my clients, for them to edit, is it the h264 custom, or will i have to use pro res or something like that ?
Great video. I would think that comparing youtube to exported vids should only be done on the same monitor, or between monitors with the same calibration. I have had this issue but the youtube vid quality was also impacted by the viewing device. It's great that you did this with a calibrated system which a lot of people won't have.
Great stuff!
It should go without saying, because this video is talking about 4K renders, but I'm also astonished by how many people still only upload their videos to YT at 1080p (perhaps because that's what they shot them at) and then wonder why they look horrible. The reason is bitrate. Not the bitrate you sent to YT, but the average and max birate YT allows for 1080p videos after re-render. It's extremely low, and always has been. If you send YT a 1080p video at 50Mbps it really won't look any better than one at 30 or even 20Mbps because it rerenders to < 10Mpbs. But step up even to 1440p will make a huge difference. In fact, upscaling your source 1080p footage to 1440p at exactly the same bitrate WILL MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE to how it looks in YT.
I shoot 4k, but render to 1080p, because I need to zoom and crop x2 some moments. So what can I do for better quality on YT?
@@bear_on_a_bike Just upscale the final result back to at least 2.7K before uploading to YT. It's annoying that the max bitrate YT will give you is tied pretty much solely to the resolution, but that's how it works. Right click on any vid and look at the Stats for Nerds, and then change resolution.. from 1080p, 1440p, 4K and see what the highest bitrate is. Try something like an FPV vid, or downhill cycling to really max it out.
@@daemn42 So, I create a project with my 4k files, edit the video using 2x zooms in some moments, and then render the final video in 1080p.
Then I crate a new project with this final 1080p video file and use the "super scale" function to upscail it to 4k?
@@bear_on_a_bike I'd skip the render/re-render step, and just make my final project settings 1440p or 4K. Yes, you may be cropping some stuff from 4K down to 1080p, and then scaling that back up to 4K and we can't do anything about the loss of resolution due to the crop, but it will let YT give you the highest bitrate available.
Here's an example from one of my own vids. watch?v=rVG6EW-48Io Skip in a bit until you're at the rear view footage. I'm using an Insta360 1X which records a spherical view at 5K, but of course any time I narrow the view to look in a specific direction, I'm cropped *way* in. Maybe going as low as 720p, and then I scale that back up to 2.7K (1440p). Watch that video at 1080p and almost all the ground detail turns to mush, looking forward or back, but switch to 1440p, and it's mostly back. The only difference is YT's max bitrate for each resolution.
Oh, and this is important. Even if you're on a 1080p monitor, you should still choose the 1440p playback option, to get the higher bitrate. I've had to tell that to all my viewers, for years..
@daemn42 thx for the tips. I finally understood how playback related to key frames bitrate. The secret is to max out keyframes to anywhere near 80-100 mbps due to how codecs work.
If you don't care about file size:
ProRes 422 LT will give you the best grain detail (but files will be huge!). I've tested this a bunch cause I love using grain.
Do you edit on a Mac? What are the other settings that you use for export?
@@Colorado4x4 Yes. Newer macbook pro. Just Quicktime ProRes 422 LT and I make sure my last CST in my color workflow is going to Rec709 and Rec709-A. You want to output 709-A so that what you see in Davinci matches what you see on UA-cam
What’s your complete setting for Resolve? Color management, export and monitor setting?
Now they look amazing from my a7 IV. Thanks a lot and definitely i have subscribed and i will watch other videos on your channel for davinci.
u r always awesome♥
Thanks man, awesome stuff, really appreciate you putting this out there!
How do I replicate the same h264 default/custom settings if I were to export using Premiere Pro?
You won't need custom since it's a Resolve/ Mac thing and not sure since default is set to auto.
@@theqazman Appreciate the response! I understand. I'll try and dial in the settings as close as possible to the h264 default preset, hopefully getting a similar result with the least amount of artifacts.
@theqazman I am going to try your preset, but im pretty sure I tested those settings before. Why not export to one of the ProRes formats, most optimal ProRes4444XQ if the footage dosn't get over 256GB, and upload directly in that to YT? For darker video's I think h264 and h265 look like dogs#%t, and the results after uploading to YT get even worse, and it is sometimes random how YT treat/convert the video. I have uploaded the same video up to 20 times for tests and got difference results. Anyway I am no color grading expert but I can clearly see the difference from uploading in ProRes to YT vs. h264/h265.
Thank you!
The main takeaway for me is that Handbrake on the Mac appears to be a 2023 product while PC Handbrake is still Windows 95 code. Oh, and the YT preset is weirdly terrible. Thanks, these side by side tests are incredibly helpful.
Happy to help.
Everyone watching this and grinding their UA-cam career, cheers and good luck! With the hard work and constandlt improvements, we'll get where we go!
See you around!
Being fairly new to Resolve but a many many old user of Final Cut Pro I’ve been using H265 and REC 709A in my output for UA-cam. I’ll give your preset a shot!
Clicked on this video as soon I got the notification!
My man. 🙏🏽
This is an awesome comparison and test, now we need an instagram reel settings video 🙏😆
Haha. Let me add it to the list.
How about H.265 - this is a newer and more efficient codec?
THANK YOU
Got a little confused on the macOS part. If I'm a Windows user, would it still benefit the quality if I choose those gamma tag/color space tag options?
No. Go with default.
Export to Quicktime format for YT?
I always did mp4.
Perhaps there could be a comparison too?
Hi Qazi, I’m using a workaround for the colorshift between VLC and Quicktime which I don’t know if it’s correct. I use Rec709-A instead of gamma2.4 for my output and export settings. There is no shift between any software when I do this. Is that a bad solution?
What about the REC709-A for Mac users? Supposed to be a workaround for the gamma shift. Have been using it as output gamma tag.
it doesnt help to just slap the tag at the end. all it does is do the same to your video in quicktime player as will happen anyway in youtube. If you want a CONSISTENT workflow on your mac, you have to set your apple XDR display which you hopefully have on your macbook, or the XDR itself, or even the studio display works - to the bt1886 reference mode, change resolve output color space to rec 709a. and THEN tag with rec709a. This way you will have a consistent look everywhere.
The more misleading 709-A comments out there, the more demand for true professional colorists
If you are on a mac you can set timeline color space to what ever you want and then set output color space to Rec709-A. Also check "use display display color profile for viewers" in Resolve preferences and in advanced export settings set gamma tag to Rec709-A. This way I've never had an issue with the gamma shift on UA-cam.
@@nhmk6603 that was what I was talking about and also using without problems until now, but I also understand that that is just a workaround, not a proper fix. It’s a deep rabbit hole and every time I peek into it I’m greeted with (almost agressive) comments about what should I be using (mostly expensive hardware) or way too technical explanations for someone who just wants to see the same result on youtube as he saw in his Resolve viewer, that’s all.
@@nhmk6603you export on h.264 or 2.65 or what?
would there be difference or better if you upload prores to youtube?
great video, was surprised that the overkiled looked worse
I do. But I’m weird probs. Lol
I think I need to see more shots with motion for comparison, and HEVC. Also I thought Network Optimization was used for working with people remote? I do appreciate the video thought 👏.
Hey qazi i loved ur tutorials very much before i have no experience in Davinci or any type of color grade but after watching your tutorials i learned so much about the software and color grading thank you so much for the tutorials man....hey can u please make a video on how to grade like roldangibuena and benjvillena please please🥺🥺
I basically went full-stupid-overkill and use DNxHR 444 12-bit. I only have underwater footage on my channel which tends to be very dark. I tried some options and the footage on youtube always looked grainy or pixelated. I eventually gave up and went with DNxHR. The problem is the massive file sizes but I'm happy with results.
I also use YRGB Color managed, in SDR mode, outputting REC.709. Footage is 10-bit H265 from a goPro 11.
Awesome advice Vanille! Really grounded and realistic. In my experience, I love my work and I work nonstop lol. Much harder to manage work-life balance when you’re passionate about your work.
I was hoping that you will give h265 a test
What about hdr? Can you do the exact test with different hdr settings? Have you done that b4? That would be a gr8 video! So many people want hdr and new phones all have it too and almost all tvs have it now too, so you have a choice to make….. (:
Thank you! Can you share your grain config? I always have grain problem. Thanks for the tips
Will do a vid on that.
@@theqazman thank you ❤
Thanks for the video! I think the video misses an important point, though... the "why?" question:
Whatever you export, UA-cam WILL transcode your upload into various formats. Your original upload will NOT be used directly by UA-cam for streaming, even if it would be perfect fit regarding the codec. Okay, so that would mean uploading your footage with the best quality should be the best, since the transcoder will have a better input to come up with those streaming formats, right? So how can it be that the overkill was beaten by your custom preset? I guess it's at least two things:
(1) Your test method: scientifically speaking you are comparing noise in your data, and it's very hard to draw any objective results from that method. A down-hill footage from a mountain biker will completely change your observable differences and results. And this is already is related to my second point:
(2) Your footage is largely static footage of the GUI and in default settings, this will encourage encoders to decrease the number of keyframes*. Manually setting them to a low value should have a huge effect on your type of footage.
So, generally speaking, when you have chosen the best fitting encoder settings regardless of your intentions with the resulting video file, it will be the best option for your UA-cam upload. I am almost tempted to say the bigger the better but there are a some caveats as shown in your video. As upload size does not seem to matter to UA-cam, go a little crazy on keyframes. The video quality page of UA-cam you have shown is more interesting for consumers as it shows the recommended connection speed for streaming. And here is another big pro for going more into the (sensible) overkill direction: UA-cam will save your original file in the backend. And as UA-cam extends their streaming formats, they can still using the high-quality upload to transcode your video into these future formats.
At the end of the day, unfortunately we may spend too much time on these issues when dealing with UA-cam, as most viewers won't see your video in 4K H.264 as you intended, but in alternative formats like VP9 on mobile phones or TVs, and way too often in 720p or similar since sneaky little UA-cam loves to change those settings silently in the background to lower quality formats and most people don't notice that they are watching blocky low-bitrate 720p footage on their 4K screen (a hard-to-swallow pill, I know). It's like the frog sitting in hot water until it boils.
* Keyframes are the few frames in your footage that are saved compressed but completely in your output file. All other frames between keyframes are reconstructed heavily based on the contents of these keyframes and as such only need a fraction of space of keyframes. That's probably THE main feature of lossy video codecs.
Thanks. I understand capturing, color transformation from cam to monitor, luts and plugins, but always had troubles with exports. No one explained it as clearly and comprehensively as you did.
Nice tutorial! I have a question: I usually do the final export to deliver the video to the client. I'm on a Mac with an external display calibrated to Rec709 and gamma 2.4. I have the gamma shift problem. So it is safe to deliver an export in sRGB gamma space? I'm confused, I see that on YT the gamma between h264 Default and h264 custom is the same, so this is only a workaround for view the video on QuickTime? What player is the best to compare davinci grade and final export on Mac ?
I’m on a 2019 MacBook Pro. On a node level, first input node , your camera info and output to DWG, on your (last node)output node, output must be set to rec709A. From here grade in between the two nodes. This will give a color profile of 1-1-1 which means your video will look the same anywhere, safari,Firefox,chrome etc. if you export rec709 gamma 2.4 your color profile on your video will be 1-2-1. Right click on your videos in their files and click get info on your videos. You’ll see what I’m talking about.
Rec709 gamma 2.4 is why you’re have the gamma shift when you watch it outside of Resolve. If you use my method it will look the same on Quicktime, VLC, etc
Thank you for this awesome insight. I also noticed selecting data levels between “video” and “full” can shift the gamma. Lately I’ve just been working in timeline color space Rec. 709-A and then output colorspace Rec. 709 gamma 2.4 and then you can export any settings on a Mac and the color won’t shift. At least those are the results I found to work.
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Have you tried working on Davinci Wide Gamut Intermediate timeline and then output to Rec709-A
@@daniellrodriguezs2308 I specifically work in DWG w/ a 709-A color space. Export to 709. Seems to be working great.
@@daniellrodriguezs2308 If you are on a mac you can set timeline color space to Davinci Wide Gamut so you have a big color space to work in and then set output color space to Rec709-A. Also check "use display display color profile for viewers" in Resolve preferences and in advanced export settings set gamma tag to Rec709-A. This way the export will look exactly like in Resolve when you upload it to youtube.
Qazi, Can you make an updated video about HDR workflow and export? whats the export settings if I wanna export an HDR video that works across all different platforms? TV-social media-Iphone
Wow, how did you add those custom tools like Handbrake, VLC and notes to your finder toolbar? I googled it, nothing pops up! Can you make a course on that? I will pay
Right click the toolbar, Customize Toolbar option, drag app to toolbar, click Done.
No link in your description for downloading the preset settings
Thanks for the info! What about h265 or uploading ProRes directly to UA-cam?
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I always upload ProRes directly since UA-cam is gonna transcode it anyways. Might as well give them the best source
Bro, where this preset I cant find, in your course?😂 please drop dat link in me
the gamma shift happens because of the media player that you use not because resolve, etc. it depends if your video is recorded or exported with format rec.709 or rec601... so basically if you play a rec709 video on a rec601 video player the footage will look darker... in youtube won't look as dark because it can support well 709 or 601.
Could you perhaps make a video how to export a video with the original file data. For example if I have a file what is shot in 4k 60 frames and I just want to trim the video(do no colour adjustment, or any enhancement to the footage), my question is why is the export file bigger in than the original file. Logic would say it must be less because the file have been trimmed. So how do I export a video keeping the same data.
If you're just cutting up footage, try LosslessCut. It does what you're describing (no quality loss) but isn't an editor and doesn't reprocess the file. The cuts can be a little messy sometimes, that's the only downside. If you're trimming files to keep/store it's really good.
I do DNxHR in SQ for youtube, i have tried a lot of different combination, this ends with about 70gb for a 20min video, takes like 30 mins to upload and about 45mins to be procesed in 4K by youtube, always exporting in 4k, no matter if my video is 1080p, 2.4k, or 4k... i think it does well on the quality of youtube for my motorcycle videos.
Brilliant bro.....
Ty