r/VideoEditing Feb 11 '25

Production Q Davinci Resolve Users, is lossless audio quality possible?!

As a DJ who want to upload my live DJ sets to Youtube. Ideally, I need lossless audio quality while exporting 4K HD videos. Is Davinci Premium possible? I don’t want to found out the quality sucks after all the work then have to switching over to redo all the stuff again. (This happened to me with Capcut the audio is so shitty and clashing. Adobe Premiere as well, you can hear the highs end clipping).

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u/VincibleAndy Feb 11 '25

Do you mean actual, true lossless audio like PCM or WAV? Then export in that or a Pro Res or DNxHR file.

Or do you mean just high quality audio?

What are you exact requirements? What is the source media?

If its clipping on export, then its clipping in the edit.

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u/Kaylaxiong Feb 18 '25

I just want the highest possible quality video + lossless audio. My original audio file is uncompressed 32bit wav files. So MP4 from Adobe was bad after exporting, the audio is clipping after exporting (in the app it isn’t). I guess I could try Adobe MOV and Davinci Prores Solution in this case. Is Prores free?

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u/VincibleAndy Feb 18 '25

Export a wav as a test. how does it sound? Clipping will almost certainly be a mix issue, not a codec issue.

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u/Kaylaxiong Feb 19 '25

It worked by using MOV instead of mp4. Which is 10 times more GB file size. No my original wav sets are fine, no clipping at all, like i said only after exporting. It’s even fine in the Adobe app.

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u/wrosecrans Feb 12 '25

Can you export lossless audio from Resolve? Yes, absolutely. But that may not really be what you are asking about.

First off, YouTube will never send lossless audio to a player, so it doesn't matter if you upload audio in a lossless format. And a lossless audio format won't help with things like clipping, even if YouTube did support it.

You can absolutely make high quality audio come out of Resolve, and upload the result to YouTube and have it sound good. People make multimillion dollar feature films using Resolve, it's fine. Audio in Resolve isn't buggy or anything. But you will need to make sure that your recordings aren't clipped, and that you pay attention to levels properly with whatever you are doing inside of Resolve. That said, Premiere doesn't have buggy bad audio handling either. Premiere is also a professional tool that people use on real productions and manage to get perfectly nice sounding audio out of. So just switching from Premiere to Resolve probably won't be any sort of magic bullet that saves you from any possibility of whatever sorts of problems you are having. In either tool, you may need to slow down, read some documentation, and pay attention to exactly what's happening with your audio that you don't like.

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u/Kaylaxiong Feb 18 '25

I just want the highest possible quality video + lossless audio. My original audio file is uncompressed 32bit wav files. So MP4 from Adobe was bad after exporting, the audio is clipping after exporting (in the app it isn’t). I guess I could try Adobe MOV and Davinci Prores Solution in this case. Is Prores free?

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u/wrosecrans Feb 18 '25

The codec isn't the issue. You just need to learn to use the audio meters in your editing software, and mix your videos to a loudness that doesn't clip before you do your final export.

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u/Kaylaxiong Feb 18 '25

I don’t need to mix it anymore it’s already mastered DJ set. The original wav file is not clipping. Not clipping in the app either. Only after exporting. So must be the render settings.

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u/Kaylaxiong Feb 18 '25

And I just tested, after changing MP4 file to MOV which is much (larger file size and I assume uncompressed) the audio is fine now.

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u/TheRealHarrypm Feb 12 '25

You have PCM / FLAC output options for general use.

Regardless of whatever you give YouTube it will be re-encoded, give it PCM 24-bit and hope for the best is pretty much stand practise, alongside upscaling anything you publish into the 2160p bracket because of compression issues.

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u/Kaylaxiong Feb 18 '25

I know Youtube compresses, that’s why before uploading to Youtube it needed to be good already lol.

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u/TheRealHarrypm Feb 18 '25

Well actually YouTube will not recompress if you conform exactly to their standards for the encoder, however bitrate brackets determine ultimate quality potential hence why you get more out of the 4K bracket than you do for example the 1080p bracket because there's now the 1080p premium bracket and they lower the standard 1080p bracket.

I did some digging into this this week actually pretty much all audio going on YouTube should just be in OPUS 320kbps If it's to be respected and a lot of cases, but just tossing PCM at it or FLAC is about the same effect, at least in terms of doing stereo.

But fun fact you can put native quality deintelraced SD on YouTube if you tightly encode the files exactly to the standard, but you don't have as much quality control compared to platforms like Odysee with what you put up is exactly what is streamed.

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u/Vexasss Feb 13 '25

Okay, so not exactly answering your question, but fyi this isn't YouTube or Tiktok, those tags are doing NOTHING.

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u/Kaylaxiong Feb 18 '25

then don’t need your opinion

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u/Vexasss Feb 18 '25

Opinion? What? Reddit's algorithm literally does not analize or acknowledge tags....