

Lastly, and most important, is resolution and bitrate. After that, make sure your audio codec is set to AAC or AAC-LC, and the video codec is H.264. Once you have finished your editing, it will be time to set your GoPro export settings. This will allow for exporting a 4K video, even if the GoPro was recording 1080p or 2.7K. To start with, set the timeline resolution to 4K, or 3840 × 2160. YouTube has specific things it likes to see. If you edit your videos in a program such as DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere or Final Cut, you’ll be able to set the parameters of your video. Adjusting our GoPro export settings will take advantage of that. That is much better for the sake of our footage. YouTube allows for 38–68 Mbps for 4K video.

However, YouTube allows more bitrate for 4K video. Next, assign input color spaces to any log encoded Clips that aren't raw - I've got a link in the description to learn how simple and powerful color management inside of Resolve is if that's new to you.Now that you know why GoPro export settings are important, what can you do to make the most of them? We now know that uploading in 1080p is a bad idea. Wide Gamut lets me use the HDR grading tools, so they behave just like a camera does for things like exposure, color temperature, and saturation.Īnd then this is the critical one, change the output color space to Rec.709-A and save it. I like to disable automatic color management and change the color processing mode to HDR DaVinci Wide Gamut. Resolve Color Management is an amazing under the hood way to get your footage looking beautiful, especially if it's log encoded or raw footage, without needing to do much normalization correction at all. However, instead of working with YRGB color science, let's open project settings and go to color management to work in DaVinci YRGB Color Managed. I assume you already set your Resolve preferences to use Mac display color profiles for viewers and tag 709 clips as Rec.709-A from the intro part of this tutorial. So on a mac, Rec.709-A will provide you with the best looking and consistent images from Resolve to QuickTime to YouTube.

YouTube wants and expects to see the tags set to 1-1-1, and the problem is that most people color grade in the broadcast default gamma 2.4, which will export a 1-2-1 tagged file that will give you a washed out, low contrast saturated video once YouTube converts it.
