Welcome to episode 5 of The DaVinci Resolve 15 Crash Course! In this penultimate episode, we’re going to cover everything you need to know about the delivery page. If you’ve been following along, you should be familiar with the setup by now (links to the other episodes are at the bottom of this page).
Let’s dive in! The delivery page is relatively simple, so this should be our quickest episode yet. As a basics crash course, we’ll only be covering the essentials you need to get your content ready for delivery.
To render your edit, you first need to go to the delivery page. This page has its own layout, but it’s familiar enough that you should be able to find your way around without getting lost. The render settings panel is your first port of call when opening the delivery page. From filename and location to codec and bitrate, it’s all confirmed in this panel.
If you’re new to making films, render settings can be a bit of a mystery. But Resolve helps streamline the process with a set of one-click presets. You can choose from YouTube upload or audio only, and most upload presets will only need you to click “start to render.”
In this example, my video is going straight to YouTube, so I’m going to select YouTube from the drop-down menu. Since 4K is becoming the norm, that option is available on the YouTube tab. Resolve has changed the render settings to conform to YouTube’s suggested upload format, so all we need to do is specify the location, and we’re good to upload.
However, you can also customize each setting. For example, you can change the format and codec if you need to render the file for offline viewing. You can also render out your edit into individual clips.
Once you’ve selected all of your settings, hit “add to render queue.” When you do so, the edit under those settings goes to the queue on the right. If you need a shorter version of your edit, say 15 seconds for an Instagram ad, you can select “render in and out range” and create your 15-second range using the same keyboard shortcuts as on the edit page.
And that’s it! The delivery page in a nutshell. For our final episode, we’ll be looking at adjusting some of the internal settings and a few editing elements that you can only find when using fusion tools or the color page.
Don’t forget to check out the tracks we used to make this video and our other video tutorials linked below. Happy editing!
