Navigating the Deliver page - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

- So you've imported and organized your media, you've taken that media, organized it into a story on the cut and edit pages. You've gotten to the color page and you've worked on your images to create a visual continuity that supports the story. Then you've gone into the Fairlight page to mix your audio. Now it's time to take all of that work and render it out to share it with the world. Sometimes that workflow means going directly to Vimeo or YouTube. Sometimes it means delivering it to your client as a single movie file, like a ProREZ movie file. Sometimes that means delivering it to another professional editor or colorist, someone who's going to do the final finishing. Maybe they're going to take your work. You render out the color grade and they are going to lay graphics on top of it. Maybe they're going to do the lay back on the final audio because they've taken it out to a professional audio mixer. The Venture Resolve supports all of those workflows and it all happens in the deliver page. So in this chapter, we're going to cover those workflows, get you started. So you understand what your various options are, how you can go about, set up these different renders, modify these renders. And we're even going to take a look at a digital cinema package and the fundamentals of at least setting up in Resolve for a DCP. Just so you kind of get a sense of how that works because it is kind of nifty. All right, let's get started with a quick overview of the deliver page. So we're going to jump into the deliver page. And once again, you have a brand new user interface with a timeline and a thumbnail timeline to mix between the edit page and the color page. We've got the thumbnail timeline below the viewer, and then we have a regular timeline here. I just did a shift-Z to frame that up. We have a regular timeline down on the bottom, but the one thing I can't do, is I can't move anything. Everything's locked. So in this sense, it's kind of like working in the mini timeline on the color page, but it looks like the edit pages timeline. Above these two items we have our viewer. Below that is our mute button that keeps changing its position, depending on the page you're on. We don't have quite as many pallets on this page as we do on other pages. So there's the render queue. So when you're ready to render something out, it'll show up here in the render queue, and you can expand that out if you've got a long render queue in order to see all your renders. And then really where all the work happens is here in your render settings. Tape is if you're going out to videotape, which most of us are not doing anymore, but some of you may be doing that, in which case you'll jump over to the tape section. So we're just going to be focused on the render settings. I am going to expand out this render settings. You'll get access to more of these items without having to scroll. A couple of really important points here is, these items across the top, these are the different workflows that the Venture Resolve supports. Some of these presets say, like Vimeo, have a very limited set of options that it supports. Others, and many of these. like ProREZ Master, HT 65 Master, or if we go down into pro tools, Avid Premiere, what you'll notice is the settings are all variations on a theme. Oftentimes they're very similar to one another. And the one that gives you the most options is custom. So when I go to custom here, nothing is grayed out. Everything, every single option here is made available to me and I can completely create a export that precisely manages what I want, and it doesn't have any assumptions as to where precisely I want to deliver to. And finally, when you first start here on the deliver page, in fact, let's go ahead and reset our UI layout. I'm going to use my preset that I built at the beginning of this training in order to do that. And you'll notice that there's an option here for a custom workflow. And that typically, at least for me, always shows up on the left-hand side of these options, but there's this little scroll bar. And there's something else there that you can scroll to the left of, which is presets that you pre-build. So you can come through and make modifications on any of these presets. Come up to the options menu and choose save as new preset. After you save and name a preset it'll show up here to the left of the custom options. And once saved, it's easily recalled with a single click. You could have multiple of these here, in which case you'll have a down arrow showing you. This preset is for my homeowners association. We record our monthly meetings and this is the preset I pull up when I render out in order to deliver to Facebook. Finally, you do have some options here above the viewer that are a little different than on the other pages, including this update during renders. If you're looking to maximize the speed of your renders, you can come down to updates during renders and rather than having it on where it'll show you every single frame as it's being rendered out, you can switch this to minimal, which basically shows you about five frames a second. Or if you want to maximize your render speed, switch this to off. It's the functional equivalent of not having a viewer up here. The viewer doesn't update, but you will see when we render out that the current time indicator will show you where you are in your timeline. That'll be your feedback as to how the render is progressing. So in our next movie, we're going to take a look at how you set up for a video sharing service.