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I’m having issues where YouTube is desaturating my videos. My monitor is properly calibrated. Does anyone have render settings that work well with YouTube? Or suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

NVENC H265 10Bit CQ 12 VBR_HQ.

peterjackson wrote:NVENC H265 10Bit CQ 12 VBR_HQ.

Would this retain the saturation of the clip as well?

Thanks.

peterjackson wrote:NVENC H265 10Bit CQ 12 VBR_HQ.

Where are these settings? I see where "H265" is. But, how do I add these settings?

Not seeing that here when uploading UHD h264. When rendering your data level should be set to Auto or Video.
This what I see comparing replay in Resolve and YT.

My choice for YouTube uploads is a Cineform .avi file at High Quality. (The files are very large, but I have really good Internet speeds.)

Charles Bennett wrote:Not seeing that here when uploading UHD h264. When rendering your data level should be set to Auto or Video.
This what I see comparing replay in Resolve and YT.

Do you use any other settings on the Color page, or Color Transform?

Jim Simon wrote:My choice for YouTube uploads is a Cineform .avi file at High Quality. (The files are very large, but I have really good Internet speeds.)

I have a gigabit internet connection but only get around 45Mbps when uploading to YouTube (just 10% of the actual bandwidth available from my fibre connection). I guess there's some kind of throttling going on -- perhaps because I'm not in the USA.

Todd, the pic shows the render settings used. No LUTs or Color Transform used just the Wheels and some Midtone Detail added with an Adjustment clip. Color Science is DaVinci YRGB, Rec.709 Gamma 2.4.
To give context to the video:
Shot on a Canon G40 in MP4 1080 50p at 35Mbps.
Clip speed changed to 25fps to slow down the motion of the wind swept trees.
Edited and graded in a custom 25fps UHD timeline of 3840 x 1670.
Running time 1min 50 secs.
File size 1.66GB.
You can see the video on YT here.

Most render formats (YUV based) are meaningless for the final YT colors itself. If you feed YT with YUV based codec then it should not touch colors as it just encodes source without any processing. Make sure levels are set to Auto or Video.

Other problems are- Resolve project setting in color management section, your monitor gamut (as far as I understand on PC Resolve is not color managed- not sure about browser preview). This may lead to different look between Resolve and YT.
Your problem (as typically) lies not in YT making things bad, but due to preview difference in Resolve vs browser. You can easily prove it by downloading YT clip back and comparing with source in Resolve or some player (has to be same for both files).

Problem discussed countless times.

Charles Bennett wrote:Todd, the pic shows the render settings used. No LUTs or Color Transform used just the Wheels and some Midtone Detail added with an Adjustment clip. Color Science is DaVinci YRGB, Rec.709 Gamma 2.4.
To give context to the video:
Shot on a Canon G40 in MP4 1080 50p at 35Mbps.
Clip speed changed to 25fps to slow down the motion of the wind swept trees.
Edited and graded in a custom 25fps UHD timeline of 3840 x 1670.
Running time 1min 50 secs.
File size 1.66GB.

I changed the Color Management setting to Wide Gamut. And SD REC709. So, that seemed to render a version closest to what I see in Resolve.

These are the Project Settings used for that video.

Thanks, Charles. I'll give those a try.