How to get SMOOTH REALTIME playback in DaVinci Resolve 17 for H.265 10 Bit VIDEO

dudes are you having trouble editing modern video file formats in davinci resolve then this video is for you today i'm going to show you how to fix your choppy playback so you can work faster raid faster and drastically increase your render speeds saving you not only time but money so let's get into it the following method will work for any type of camera footage but today i will be using canon files that are reportedly uneditable in davinci resolve which is why i'm using them namely canon r5 12-bit raw and h.265 10-bit files i will be running resolve on my old 2012 15-inch retina macbook pro and i will as you can see up here be screen recording at the same time this older hardware software combination will show you how important your project settings are how to manipulate them to achieve better results and how to use the hidden power of davinci resolve settings to unlock real-time playback this is super important in davinci resolve regardless of the media type you're editing as not everyone can achieve brute force playback speeds as many of you like me don't have powerful computers let's have a look at some of my media file properties you can follow along on your computer by following my lead select a clip in the timeline then in your inspector click on the metadata window you can see my footage is 8k h265 mp4 10bit video what a mouthful and this file is an 8k raw 12-bit video file and for laughs here is a 4k 100p h265 mp4 hevc 10-bit slow-motion clip as you can see when i try to play them back it isn't great look how choppy the playback is the frames per second is terrible and you literally can't work like this so let's fix it so step one to fixing this problem is to go to your playback window and now go down to the proxy mode and choose either half or quarter resolution okay let's play back our footage to see if this has made a difference yes it actually has given us better playback but it isn't great the good thing about this step is that it's only a proxy mode and whether you're in proxy mode or not this is just a playback setting so regardless if i forget to turn this off when i go to render my project davinci resolve is not going to render out a lower resolution media file davinci resolve will just render out the correct version this again is only a playback setting which takes us to step two in the playback menu go to the render cache and select smart what this means is that davinci resolve will assess for you what it thinks needs to be rendered and as you can see here we now have a red bar above our clip that will turn blue once complete playing the clip on the timeline will help force render the clip once rendered you should be able to play back the media with no problems at all now this won't always be ideal because you'll be waiting for things to render so that takes us to step three click on your settings icon here this will launch your master project settings first set your timeline to a lower resolution than your media type for example i've got 8k in 4k and i'm using a 1080 timeline don't worry because you can change this at any time later back up to your desired export resolution size this step is only for project optimization resolve automatically rescales everything for you if you choose to change this later next scroll down to your optimized media render cache settings we are going to change three things here first in the optimized media format drop down menu select prores lt if you're on a mac and dnx sq if on a pc here's a little pro tip if you choose your media type to match your delivery settings here this will speed up your render times this is because on export you can choose your pre-rendered cache files to help you speed up the delivery process but be sure that you select a media format that you'll be happy to deliver in if you want to work this way for my online content i choose prores lt as my optimized media render cache files and delivery format because for youtube and the platform's recompression issues it makes no difference so mirror the settings in your render case format settings here next make sure that enable background caching is selected and change the wait time from the default to five seconds down to one okay there's something here that we need to change and it's our working folders because these can very quickly fill up a drive the best practice is to select a different drive from your main drive this will not only help with bandwidth issues but also not clog up your internal system disk this will ensure you don't run out of disk space essentially this setting is rendering cache media while you work hit save now that we have a render going we should have much better playback which leads us to step four if the last three steps aren't satisfactory you can always optimize the media but this is more of something that i would do overnight or on a lunch break as the clips that you select to optimize will stop you from working optimize media is akin to string outs or play blasts without going to the deliver tab so let's jump back into our project settings and edit our optimized media settings for this project i'm setting the optimized media to half i'm not worried about the resolution resolve knows that half of 8km 4k is equal to or greater than my timeline resolution of 1080p resolve with us look after the downscale for me and maintain the quality this is one of the reasons i love editing in resolve now in the edit window let's go back to our playback menu here and make sure that use optimize media if available is selected now that we have set up our system to optimize our files we need to tell resolve which media files to optimize and this is really really easy to do so let's jump back over to our edit window first select a clip or a series of clips that you would like to optimize and right click on them in the pop out menu select optimize media if you would like to see what media in your timeline is optimized click on the media pool then choose list view if the optimized media column is not visible right click on the header go down to optimize media and turn it on now you'll be able to see what media has been rendered to your price selected settings if you have unoptimized media that you would like to render you can always go to your media pool here once you have found all the unoptimized media select that media and set it to render unfortunately this is a foreground process and it will stop you from working so if you choose to go this route it may be better to batch render it out at the end of the day in saying that though once completed real-time playback is guaranteed if for some reason when you return to resolve it's not identifying or playing back the optimized media correctly what do you do this problem is very easy to fix go down to your list view here right click on the media go down to rediscover optimize media now resolve will go off and find all the optimized media and re-link it for us you can also check in the main menu that you have selected use optimize media if available or if you wish to turn off the usage of optimized media you can untick this option as well you can also delete the optimized media here if you wish to this will delete all optimized media permanently from your system for the project which takes us to step five change your timeline resolution this is the ultimate hack that i briefly touched on before so if you don't have real-time playback after steps one through four then this is your only option left before having to transcode the media so let's jump back into our project settings you can see that i've set my timeline at 1080p if your resolution is higher than this lower the resolution now as i stated before davinci resolve is resolution independent well what does that mean okay if i wanted to change my timeline to 4k i can change the settings here and now if i go back into the edit page you can see that resolve has auto scaled everything for me or if i wanted to down scale the timeline further than 1080 so i can have better real-time editing i can drop it to 720p again resolve auto scales is for me making everything easier on the editing system now even though the resolution has changed nothing has actually changed this is a completely non-destructive workflow when you have completed your edit and you're ready to say go grade you can just change the timeline back this is by far the most overlooked setting in resolve just because you have 8k footage doesn't mean you need to edit in 8k or even 4k for that matter what matters is completing the job now i did say before that these techniques would drastically speed up your render times and if you followed my advice on setting your cache and optimized media to match the delivery settings then you would be looking at export frame rates like these the reality is when using resolve on laptops combining the techniques i've shown in this video will yield the best results you can use all of these tips at the same time and that's it guys if you found the tutorial useful drop a comment down below and let me know which tip gave you the best results i do read all the comments and if you have any questions i will get back to you so stay safe guys bye for now you

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Length: 9min 58sec (598 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 02 2020