
Load render presets and render the video.
Dynamically add a text tile to the timeline on the above track. Add the video file to the timeline on a track above the IGTV background template. Import a rendered video file and IGTV background template (another video file) to the media pool. Set project settings such as width, height, and frame rate. With full DaVinci Resolve Python scripting capabilities, here is ideally what my video scrip would do. If you’re not familiar, IGTV is a vertical video platform, so by placing my horizontal YouTube video on a vertical IGTV background template, I can publish the same video to my Instagram audience. My goal was to write a Python script that would repurpose a video for YouTube as an Instagram TV video.
Learn about Python scripting with DaVinci Resolve Studio 16 in order to automate the repetitive process of reusing your YouTube videos for IGTV. Although DaVinci Resolve scripting capabilities are extremely limited, I found it promising to see that this sort of capability was being developed at BlackMagicDesign.