---
name: appariciojunior-youtube-export
description: "DaVinci Resolve Deliver settings for great YouTube quality without 25 GB files - bitrate, profile, audio, burned-in subtitles and the colour tags that stop the \"faded on YouTube\" look. Use when the creator asks about export or render settings."
license: "NOASSERTION"
metadata:
  decimalai-skill-id: "3383eefc-a6ad-4cf3-aeb1-cfedc0fd0dbd"
  decimalai-version-id: "c917fc44-fde5-4527-84eb-6d1c3aa601c7"
  decimalai-version: "1"
  decimalai-body-sha256: "c2f0ae069924f4e9a511fdf0d6f300e3f23f92d3dfeb89196fff5500a2bdcba6"
  decimalai-name: "appariciojunior/youtube-export"
  decimalai-format: "1"
  decimalai-invocation: "model"
  decimalai-category: "design-media"
  decimalai-source: "https://app.decimal.ai/s/appariciojunior-youtube-export@1/SKILL.md"
---
# YouTube export (Deliver page)

"Quality: Automatic" with H.264 picked ~300 Mb/s: **25 GB for an 11-minute video**. YouTube re-encodes everything; anything far above its recommendation is wasted upload time.

## Video
- Format **QuickTime**, codec **H.264** (hardware acceleration on, Network Optimization on).
- Resolution and frame rate: **timeline**.
- Quality: **Restrict to 50,000 Kb/s** for 4K-class frames (≈4.2 GB for 11 min). 40,000 is fine too (≈3.3 GB). Smaller: **H.265 at ~30,000** (≈2.5 GB) at the same quality.
- Encoding profile **High**, **Multi-pass** on (if available), key frames Automatic.

## Colour tags (check the project first)
Read the project's timeline colour space. If the project is **Rec.709-A** (common on Macs), set Color Space Tag and Gamma Tag to **Same as Project**. Tagging Rec.709 / Gamma 2.4 makes the video look lighter and washed out on Macs, iPhones and Chrome compared with the Resolve viewer. Data levels Auto; don't retain sub-black/super-white.

## Audio
AAC, **320 kb/s**, 48 kHz.

## Subtitles
If the creator wants captions always visible (people watching on mute): Subtitle Settings → Export Subtitle, Format **Burn into video**, **tick the subtitle track** (if it's unticked, nothing is exported). Optionally also export the SRT and upload it to YouTube as closed captions.

## File
Output to the workspace's `export edited video/` folder. Then save all of this into their preset ("…" → Update preset) so every export is one click.