Resolution quality

[earnest grotto]

My videos seem to feel blurry. I exported at 1080 for 2 videos and 1440 for the last. I use 264. , high bit rate, timeline framerate, and I export from davinci.

This is the main video in question as I have it at 1440.
https://youtu.be/jKP3omRADbc

[wise light]

It doesn't seem blurry to me.What you should be doing that will improve quality though, is exporting it as Ultra HD 4k. Even if you render everything in davinci in 1080P, if you export in 4k, Youtube applies better compression tools so even your lower resolution versions will look better.

For optimum results, for 4k you should create a bitrate limit of I believe it is 60,000kbps, which prevents re-rendering at 4k. You should enable full 2-pass, set preset to ultra slow, AAC to 320kbps in audio, normalise set to optimise for youtube, that's the main stuff. 264 is the right codec too btw

there is an option in davinci to apply "luma sharpen" under the "transform" tab on a clip, which might help? I've never used it personally. But this will add significantly to render time, and do it at the end before delivery as it will totally screw your ability to playback video while editing

[earnest grotto]

I appreciate this. For this specific video I recorded in 4K via flashback mod. 4K on davinci made the application crash many times. 10k of memory on task manager lol. Ended up scaling down the playback to fix it and also exported at 1440. This should work way better though. I think I might have had nitrate on 30,000 so I will change that too.

[wise light]

you using proxies? it also might help encoding in dnxhr first, if you've got plenty of hdd space

a 20 minute vid in 4k for me was about 200gb lol (30fps)

ive got a potato pc and i can still edit multiple 4k vids fine

[earnest grotto]

This one was around 8gb but I also exported to YouTube at 1440

[wise light]

if that doesn't work, keep your original 4k, edit in the 1080p vid, then right before delivery, right click on the 1080p file in the edit library, and click "change file source" or something like that

[earnest grotto]

That’s wierd. I might of done something wrong then

[wise light]

and substitute in the 4k video again

do you use studio driver? or game ready driver?

[earnest grotto]

Game ready

[wise light]

you could try studio ready, you can still game on them fine, its just a more stable driver

its generally better practice to, you will end up with more crashes with game ready

for reference, my pc is 3770k, ddr3 32gb ram and a gtx 1060 lol

its nearly 15 years old

[earnest grotto]

I will switch it then. I have a gaming laptop. It’s newer so it usually can run a lot of stuff

[wise light]

yeah id wager its way better than my pc lol