Feedback Needed Davince resolve messed with the quality

[Meifesto]

So, i started to try and use Davince, as Magix keeps crashing on the pc (and can't export anything above 1080)

But for some reason the quality dropped massively after rendering.
And youtube still only shows it as 1080, even though it was recorded and rendered in 2k.

Any one any ideas?

 

[LoneWolfer]

The main reason that I can think of is that it hasn't processed on Youtube to 4k yet. When I view it on youtube it doesn't give me any options above 1080 under the quality menu.

Beyond that, a screen shot of the settings you are using to render out your sequence would be helpful. I know quite a few people on here use DaVinci and that would help them narrow down the issue you are having. I stopped using DaVinci before I had the ability to render out in anything above 1080. But in Adobe Premiere, if I don't use the "Youtube2160" or whatever it is labeled, it won't actually ramp up to 4k while processing on Youtube.

 

[Meifesto]

After 3 hours being online, and more then 6 hours from the upload moment, it still sits at 1080.
So i think the rendering went wrong.

I will see if i can get a screenshot of the settings when exporting

 

[Drakhen99]

Yep - LoneWolfer is right - show us your settings and we can narrow it down or fix it, I bet! I export in 2k all the time to upload to YT and it works fine.

As for your mention in the other thread about exporting thumbnails - you can do that in the Color tab - View > Stills > Grab Still. Open the Gallery [upper-left corner of the screen], right-click > Export. Choose JPEG as your export type, and it'll output a still image. I think this is what you're asking for.

-John

 

[Meifesto]

Yep - LoneWolfer is right - show us your settings and we can narrow it down or fix it, I bet! I export in 2k all the time to upload to YT and it works fine.

First thing tomorrow will be a setting screenshot

As for your mention in the other thread about exporting thumbnails - you can do that in the Color tab - View > Stills > Grab Still. Open the Gallery [upper-left corner of the screen], right-click > Export. Choose JPEG as your export type, and it'll output a still image. I think this is what you're asking for.

-John

Sounds about right, will give that a try.

 

[Drakhen99]

I do the thumbnail thing all the time - probably 90% of my Instagram posts are screen shots from my footage.

-John

 

[Moto Mengy]

As for your mention in the other thread about exporting thumbnails - you can do that in the Color tab - View > Stills > Grab Still. Open the Gallery [upper-left corner of the screen], right-click > Export. Choose JPEG as your export type, and it'll output a still image. I think this is what you're asking for.

Wow, I never knew you could do that, what a neat tool!!!

I swear I only use about 5% of what Davinci Resolve can do, and I know even less about what it can do!

 

[R-Rated]

YouTube has been days slow on processing up to the 4k on my videos. Seriously, DAYS...

Who knew the pandemic affected the little elves in the machines that much?

 

[Drakhen99]

Wow, I never knew you could do that, what a neat tool!!!

I swear I only use about 5% of what Davinci Resolve can do, and I know even less about what it can do!

I think I'm up to 15 or 20%, not counting Fusion ... that stuff is downright WILD, and I've only used about 2% of that.

YouTube has been days slow on processing up to the 4k on my videos. Seriously, DAYS...

Who knew the pandemic affected the little elves in the machines that much?

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Try some different export settings - Jay Lippman did a video on it recently. I've found that it's usually <12 hours for YT to process a 12-15m video.

-John

 

[Riderguide]

I'm clearly a noob on Davinci, and had no idea we could select 4k on YT viewing!

 

[HippoDrone]

Isn't 2k basically 1080p?
To get better quality you need to be recording at 2.7k or 4k

Your video is showing as a 4k vid to me though!

 

[Drakhen99]

YouTube has been days slow on processing up to the 4k on my videos. Seriously, DAYS...

Who knew the pandemic affected the little elves in the machines that much?

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@HippoDrone , please don't smack me for this, but here's Jay Lippman's video on export settings from DR for YT:

FWIW, I uploaded 3 videos recently, and 2 of them took less than 6 hours to process. They were all 7 to 9 minutes long.

-John

 

[LoneWolfer]

I am also getting the option of increasing the quality to 4k as of 9am on June 3rd. I think [B]R-Rated[/B] hit the proverbial nail on the head with the mechanical elves being hammered while working remotely from home.

 

[R-Rated]

Try some different export settings - Jay Lippman did a video on it recently. I've found that it's usually <12 hours for YT to process a 12-15m video.

-John

John,

How big is his channel? Big channels get priority for resources over the normal peasants. Been like that since the first YouTubers stepped off the Mayflower.

 

[Drakhen99]

John,

How big is his channel? Big channels get priority for resources over the normal peasants. Been like that since the first YouTubers stepped off the Mayflower.

He's got 35k subs or so - so I get it... in his video, YT processed his video in SECONDS. So I get that bigger channels have higher priority in the processing queue.

BUT, I changed my export settings to match what Jay did, and now my files are about 1/3rd the size with no apparent loss in quality, and YT processes them much faster... it no longer takes a day or more to process a 10m video. I literally uploaded a video at 11:30pm last night, and by 7:30am this morning, it was fully processed in 1080 and 1440 resolutions [2k?], ready for publishing.

-John

 

[HippoDrone]

1440 is around 2.5k, 2704 x 1520 is 2.7k

 

[Dewey316]

Youtube shows me, that vid is available in up to 2160p now, it may have just taken a long time to encode it.

 

[R-Rated]

Youtube shows me, that vid is available in up to 2160p now, it may have just taken a long time to encode it.

That's my point - 4k is dragging on processing in the past few weeks.

I blame all the UFOs videos the US is leaking. The aliens are wanting better resolution:

 

[Meifesto]

Yep - LoneWolfer is right - show us your settings and we can narrow it down or fix it, I bet! I export in 2k all the time to upload to YT and it works fine.

This is how it is when i open the project.
And it looks the same as when i rendered it.

 

[Meifesto]

Wow, I never knew you could do that, what a neat tool!!!

I swear I only use about 5% of what Davinci Resolve can do, and I know even less about what it can do!

I do the thumbnail thing all the time - probably 90% of my Instagram posts are screen shots from my footage.

-John

Yupe, i used to do it for every thumbnail and maybe a random insta post with Magix.
I just couldn't find it in Davinci.

As for your mention in the other thread about exporting thumbnails - you can do that in the Color tab - View > Stills > Grab Still. Open the Gallery [upper-left corner of the screen], right-click > Export. Choose JPEG as your export type, and it'll output a still image. I think this is what you're asking for.

Next time i will be editing i will try this first, just to learn where it is and how to get to it