You’re the best. That said . I wish DaVinci would improve the user interface of the settings.. I switched to Resolve over a year ago and I still struggle every time I set up a new project having to jump from one panel to another .. with that feeling of “where is this located again?” …
You're super kind. You're not alone - I still forget do I open project settings, or preferences, or user prefs etc... There is a lot of legacy stuff as the application has grown over the years. One tip I can give for basic tools is to use the search in the help to type and it will take you to the menu option.
Even though I agree that Resolve offers a lot of different ways to render cache, render previews is the only thing i still miss from Premiere, even though i have switched to Resolve many years ago. You just mark in / out and render that specific area. Also, i think that Resolve cache render, renders each clip separately, so if you have stacked clips, performance suffer because the system has to playback all these separate files. I think Premiere's render preview renders one file, like render in place but for all tracks.
Chock full of recommendations. Unfortunately, at my level, I didn’t understand much. Could you do a newbie version? Sort of: do this because…and here’s how
MrAlex Tech and others have all sorts of video for newbies. To be honest this one was pretty newbie for Creative Video Tips. If you keep going Learning and searching you will get there! :} For me Creative Video Tips is invaluable because it's one of the only channels that still teaches stuff that I don't know. But if you go farther back in his catalog, there may be more of the stuff you're looking for also. Hope you get your answers and good luck on your editing journey.
Hi Edward, thank you for this feedback. I'm sorry this wasn't what you are looking for. But to simply render your video out, the simplest way will be to go to use what is called "quick export". The preset there for h.264 will work great. For sure check out Mr. Alex Tech's channel, Casey Farris too are full of getting started tutorials. I will have some tutorials in the future that are better for beginners. I know how intimidating this software can feel when you first open it.
Another good video and an important subject - I feel like not knowing this stuff leads a lot of people to buying new systems before they need to. I hadn't considered the frame handles in the Render in Place . I wonder if there is a benefit to consolidating and getting just what you want in an edit by running that on all the clips with 24 handles and then using that out of the edit to grade and finish with. Seems like you could then keep all your files organized for each project. I was using the media management window to kind of do that. I guess I'll have to play around a bit.
Thank you Jim. Yep, I still have a 2015 iMac running that is in use by my youngest son. It's all about knowing a couple codec/resolution settings. Regarding the frame handles - I would still stick to media managed files instead. The 2 big arguments for that is to keep source timecode (it's lost in render in place), and you can Media Manage Raw, back to trimmed up Raw.
Hello! Thanks for this great video. I have a question regarding the project setting proxy media format. I see that you have them at ProRes 422 Proxy but two or three videos ago you said that you were stepping out of prores proxy and use H265 proxy instead. The question is, is it okay to keep it like that since you are creating proxies from the proxy generator app or you can change the proxy format to H265 in the project settings if you are doing proxies inside davinci. Is there any difference between the h265 proxy from the project settings compared to the h265 proxies from the proxy generator?
you have a sharp eye! Yes, I fully suggest using H.265 proxies instead if you have a semi-modern computer. I just hadn't changed that setting in my project. As you noted this only matters in the project if you make proxies inside of the project - the format will be the same but within the project you do have more resolution options. They are either based on the project timeline resolution (auto), or a fraction of the original size (half, quarter etc...). I tend to not use this method very often because it takes over the software where proxy generator can run at the same time in the background.
I really enjoy watching your episodes but, as a hobbyist, many of your tutorials are aimed well above my skill-set and pay grade. However I do have one observation/request that I hope you could consider in future tutorials. Your tutorials are full of information and delivered at a very fast pace. I'm guessing that this is to keep the attention of the TicToc generation with low attention spans. However, people like me who enjoy learning how to use Resolve generally have a good attention span. Would it be possible to slow down your tutorials a little to allow the information to sink in. I know that I can pause, rewind and watch again as much as required. But then as I'm a hobbyist/amature maybe I'm trying to aspire to a skill-set way above my abilities and I should manage my expectations.
Very well done dude! Very comprehensive for newbies, but I also learned stuff with this! I like how you specifically said for windows and also for Mac! Not just doing one of them! Awesome stuff dude!
Very nice Tutorial! I work with fusion standalone, then you can render with the saver node every format… I hope this Feature will come to Resolve! Exr sequences are 🤯
thank you for taking time to watch, yeah that is a nice thing about fusion studio - I'm not really sure why they limit that function in resolve fusion.
Thank you! Another banger! I have a question, if any one knows if this is possible it would be you - Is there a way to save new default settings in the Stabilizer tab on the edit page, or any other setting like Dynamic Zoom? In my line of work I'm am constantly using both and need to change from 'perspective' to 'translation' etc. every single time. I doubt this is possible but thought I'd ask as I'm sure you appreciate efficiency with tools you regularly use. Thanks again, love your videos!
thank you - excellent question - I don't think you can default it to translation - however I think this should be made the default, its makes way more sense to me. For the dynamic zoom question though - if you use a tool like this very often - I would highly suggest Mr. Alex Tech has a preset tool called Magic Zoom. This will allow for so much more control and presets then the built in dynamic zoom tool. Magic Zoom is used quite a bit in this tutorial as well.
10:17 use render cache does indeed save a lot of time.. the only question I have is, does the base rendering then happen in the format mentioned in the project setting?
correct - this is something I forgot to mention - so if you do want to use the render cache for final delivery - make sure you choose a high enough quality (typically you might want ProRes HQ for instance instead of LB). Then if you make a ProRes HQ final render, it "should" be very fast. This has been very hit or miss for me.
Another great video that's saved to my "editing cheat sheet" list. Thank you so much for sharing the wisdom of many hours so we can benfit from it. Keep the awesomeness coming!
Another fanboy babbling... Dude there are PPL with hefty I mean HEFTY machines out there.. Still some file types and unoptimised fx trees bogs down the system... It's inevitable These tips are too minimise them. Take it easy
Great question - yes absolutely use proxies if you're able to. However even with proxies there will be times when you add certain effects that you still don't get realtime playback. These options will help then.
Thank you for this! Also, i have issues with using proxies. Well, not really the proxies. When playing it back with proxies, everything is fine. But once I set back to original clip and play, there are one or two frames that goes offline media source. Not the entire clip but just one or two frames.
Thank you for the question - I'm going to guess its one or 2 things (possible mismatch in the frame rate from the timeline to source footage? and there is an effect on it) OR it could be related to the drive speed and codec/performance of the computer. One way to test if its the later, is to covert a test clip to DNX or ProRes and try to replicate.
Great video as always. I'm in Hoboken! This channel is my fun channel - I have another one for pro work. I mostly do industrials for a living using DaVinci Resolve and Premiere. Been at it since 1990.
We have a LOT of playback issues. I'm the editor and have two assistants using the Project Server with an 80TB Synology NAS. Playback is always iffy-sometimes fine, other times *very* stuttery-and I think it might be the Netgear switch.
I use a similar setup but have ubiquiti switches. I would test throughput using the blackmagic disk speed test app to make sure you're getting expected speeds. I would at a minimum use 2.5 Gbe adapters and ports, but 10 is great if you can swing it.
