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Building a custom export template - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

From the course: Learning DaVinci Resolve 16

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Building a custom export template

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- The deliver page's preset export templates, they're great. They work really, really well if you have (laughs) a preset that you're delivering to. What happens when a client comes up with their own little deliverable that doesn't fit into one of these preset templates? That's what custom templates are for. And if we take a look in this little selection range here for our export templates, we can click on Custom. And Custom gives us an entire range of all of these options available to us. You'll notice if I pick something like, well, YouTube, I have its own little interface, and I can't really vary from that all that much. But if go into something like Premiere Pro XML, I can do a variety of different things, but some of these options get grayed out on me, and I really can't adjust them because this export template restricts me from some options. But I go to the custom template, every single option opens up, and I can go ahead and make changes to every single item down here. Now, the interesting this is once you've gone through and made all these changes, if you're doing multiple deliverables of the exact same export template, come up here, Save As New Preset, and we're going to call them Client XYZ Delivery. Click OK. And now I've got this Client XYZ Delivery. And I can have multiple custom exports. For instance, Client XYZ always wants QuickTime on compress, but I have another client, they always want MXF OP1a. And so I'm going to go ahead and select their particular settings, HQX 10-bit. And they're always delivering to UHD, 3,840 by 2,160 Ultra HD. All right, so now I've made those changes, I'm going to go ahead and save that as a preset. We'll call this Client ABC Delivery. And now I've got a pull-down here, and I can choose between ABC, or let's switch this up to XYZ. And now we're back to our uncompressed. Switch this back up to ABC, and we're back to our DNxHR delivery. And if I make changes here, let's say on the file delivery, I always want to use the timeline name whenever I'm doing this DNxHR export for Client ABC, so having made this change, I can come up to this options menu and choose Update Current Preset. I've done that, and it's been updated. Now when I switch between these, XYZ uses a custom name. ABC uses the timeline name. If you have clients or a particular workflow that you're executing time after time after time, taking the time to sit down and really optimize your delivery options here on the deliver page, it's worth your while because when you're done, you can go ahead and save those as presets and then reuse them time after time.

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