Why I NEVER Edit in 4k - My Davinci Resolve Workflow

[@CaseyFaris]

This was brilliant. Great job as always bro.

[@MrAlexTech]

Heeyyy. Thanks Casey dude ☺️☺️

[@The_Idea_of_Dream_Vision]

Casey has helped me a lot. Bumped into his vids in 2021 and finally I can do smething in resolve.

[@Leprutz]

I kinda felt sorry of the portrayel of the low end computer. Poor old dude looked so cutsie and nice.

[@MrAlexTech]

@@The_Idea_of_Dream_Vision Yeaah Casey is a hero 🙂 He should be immortalised as an action figure or something.

[@MrAlexTech]

@@Leprutz 😆 Don't worry, he'll soon be retired and allowed to put his feet up!

[@MrAlexTech]

Thinking outside the box and evolving my game! First 5 mins are great, i feel the video ran out of steam a little towards the end so i'll adapt my scripts in the future. The goal is super tight, funny but informative vids. I'm still planning to do my No-BS vids as well, these are just fun to make and hopefully good for the KZbin Gods 😆 Hope you enjoy it!

[@RobertoPhoto]

Love them! Please do keep doing them, as they are not only entertaining but informative as well.

[@JoeBlac]

Had a great Matthew Holness vibe to some of the lines. "I've got an absolute beast of a PC which eats 4K for breakfast." You heard of Mercian Studios? Well I went down there the first day it opened, right, and I edited a couple of clips. I full-screen previewed. The bloke that runs the thing came over and said, "Oi, no professionals." I took my glasses off and said, "I'm not a professional." He said, "You're not a professional?" I said, "No." He said, "Well you should be. If I was you I'd enter the Academy Awards. And if you edit like that you'd probably be the best in the country." I said, "I'm not interested. I'm getting loads of positive comments on KZbin."

[@sgnoogle]

I can definitely feel all the effort in the first editing part and then the "pain" in the second part. Still, great job! Focusing on entertaining in the first part is definitely the best choice

[@MrAlexTech]

Yeah in hindsight, two separate super tight 5 min vids would probably have worked better. What's the saying, mistakes are just little learning experiences?! 😁

[@JoeBlac]

@@MrAlexTech you're just A/B testing, right? ;) don't feel the need to please people, sure fire way to turn it into a chore. You got your audience from doing what you're doing, so you're doing something right.

[@MrAlexTech]

NOTE: The template file is just a template. When you click it, it creates a new project with that timeline within. You can just hit save to save the project. The template file WILL NOT be overwritten. Meaning the template file is always there, ready to be clicked when you want to start a new project and it can be located anywhere on your PC 🙂

[@seanmartinss87mmorpgchanne96]

I was wondering about this thanks .

[@TheGuigotz]

How to create one?

[@JohnLe]

If i edit off of a external SSD, can i or will the program save hte project on the external ssd?

[@studioplanetesilhouette]

Cool ! That was my question ! Thanks😊

[@csharbrough]

Howdy from TEXAS! Do I need to create a copy of the same timeliine template for each Project Library that I want to open it into? Seems like it opens in the library that I was in when I created it. Of course, I can save it and then copy it to the desired lilbrary. Is that the best idea? Or, is it better to create multiples templates?

[@ZeddGaming]

This is by far my favorite "MrAlexTeck" video ever. You've outdone yourself my friend.

[@RexxReviews]

100% This guys. I always import my 4k into a 1080p timeline and then once I'm done editing bump it to 4k before rendering it out. Great Info for folks that didn't know !!!

[@cmqjapan]

This explanation was masterful. Describing the difference between your computer having to edit 4k as opposed to 1080p as having to color in different sizes of paper was so easy for me to understand. Then, your narration had such helpful footage and editing. You shot your computer having to consume 4k. You showed your footage stuttering when you talked about missed frames. I am impressed by the work you put in to bolster the explanations you gave. I would be interested in seeing a tutorial/video on your process. What steps do you go through when creating such a story? Do you first make an outline with supporting points (or supporting visuals)? Do you make storyboards and revise them as you go? Do you write out your script, use bullet points, or just wing it the first time through? Anyway. Good video.

[@creatorcology]

This is far and away the best visual example and metaphor for the differences between 1080p and 4K resolution ever created. Excellent job, very creative. Needs more views.

[@AllThingsFilm1]

Yea. I edit in HD myself and render in 4K. The playback is smoother without proxies. (EDIT: I actually set my project to 1080P. Then when I'm ready to render, I change the project to 4K. Playback is dramatically smoother when I do this.) (EDIT #2: I like your Timeline Template thingie. I think I will set that up as well.)

[@MondayCoffeexAppfire]

So timeline or project resolution has some major downsides beyond what you explained. I used to edit in 1080p and change to 4k for export. However, if you want for example to smart mask an object/person and you do it in 1080, as soon as you switch to 4k the mask tracking gets cancelled and you have to do it again. The render in place also for mp4 takes the timeline resolution so you’d have rendered 1080p footage inside your timeline when exporting 4k. My solution: run Optimize Media for the footage in the media pool that will make it play back real time.

[@Rotorhead-FPV]

This is the way

[@aristotle_4532]

If you proxy to a low 4k bitrate, you can get multicamera editing on an intel or apple igpu, in other words fast decoding, but you get 4k calculations beyond that. Some apps optimize some functions to save some of that processing. If you do the editing in lower resolution, you save processing, but decoding is at full resoaultion. You can do both but all processing must be scalable to the final revolution. Some processing gets better results when it has higher resolution and higher bitrate input. If you do drama that only needs cuts, you can proxy and work at lower resolution without a problem. You can edit film in dv format as was standard in the past. Fast performance is critical for real editing, with rhythm and actors performing. Effects can wait. If you do advanced processing you can optimize nothing. In some cases you need to go lossless or uncompressed to achieve a complex workflow. Low bitrate 4k proxy is easy on hardware acceleration and perfectly compatible but not ideal for processing. If you replace it, some things should be recalculated. There is no perfect solution. It depends on what one wants to achievw. The latest hardware is certainly not enough, even for simple full resolution workflows.

[@hardwin82]

another fantastic video! ps. part with a breakfast ... I laugh so hard 😁

[@createdesign]

Great that Trick with the timline tamplate, thanks mate 👍👏

[@ianbiallas5331]

having a strange issue.. following the steps precisely as far as I can tell.. but when I then go open my newly created .drt template from desktop.. it opens in 1280x1080 instead of the 1980x1080 I chose.. (everything else is fine though.. track titles, mixer adjustments, etc) tried it multiple times, double checking it's correct before I create the template.. always the same.. .. ideas?

[@JimmyCruck]

This was really helpful thanks!

[@petermainwaringsx]

I have a reasonably quick PC that handles 4k but I'm going to give this a whirl. After playing the video a couple of more times. As ever, many thanks for another video crammed with first rate lessons on how to get the best out of Resolve. If carlsberg did KZbin................ 😎

[@stehume]

Learned a lot from this short video, thank you. if using a insta 360 x3 and filming in 4k @50 fps does this still all work just the same as in your vide here? Also just wondered how to use an adjustment clip, thank for all the great vids ste

[@Graham_Rule]

Settling down to watch this with my carpet slippers and a nice blanket to keep me warm I realised that it wasn't just me running slowly but for some reason my laptop was playing back at only 480p. Time for a nice cup of cocoa and an early night I think. Thanks for the video. Some useful stuff in this - especially as the latest upgrade to Davinci Resolve has decided that it doesn't like my laptop's built in Intel graphics any more.

[@SebLukaTech]

3:13 Many thanks Alex, awesome points noted, BUT HEY?! why do you have your slippers on the bench?

[@Wistbacka]

If you reduce the timeline to 1080p (not proxy), doesn't that mean that during export it upscales 1080p to 4K instead of just using the native 4K material you have to begin with?

[@FilmSpook]

👍🏾👍🏾 Thanks, brother, extremely well done!!! Cheers

[@forester4ever]

Sweet, amazing and brilliant . 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@aaphotofilm]

Amazing video Alex. As I said before I learnt so much from you. I hope one day you will do a tutorial on how you get 2 of yourself in one scene. In other words a duplicate version of yourself in one scene as you did. Its amazing

[@TastyFare101]

Oh my....a pint glass of water? You get a penalty card for that one . 😜 Thanks for the great info Alex. Enjoy the weekend. 👍

[@yaago]

noob question kind of related: I recorded something that's 20GB then tried to edit it in davinci with a video of yours that recommended project settings, but after processing it the video is 100GB! Is this normal? isn't there a way to have it 20gb and without compressing it? like, I've heard using avidemux could help but I've tried that and it works but I loose a track of audio, so basically it helps me but I can't hear nothing. Is there a way to fix this or a recommendation?

[@MrAlexTech]

Hey. You definitely shouldn't be getting 100gb file unless it's realllly long. What are your export/render settings?

[@yaago]

@@MrAlexTechthanks for your answer! it's a 20gb 1 hour video for KZbin of my screen recors but it turns 100 gb after DaVinci, weird I know! my project settings are: Mp4, H. 264, resolution 2560x1440, 60fps, quality Best (since it looked horrible and it turned only 4gb if I didn't touch that) Is there something I'm doing wrong? Maybe is there a way to paste the missing audio track via avidemux?

[@Pdogpaz]

That pre made timeliness is genius and will save me hours over multiple projects, thank you Alex🙏👍.

[@TechnoViel]

+1 on this. Need to check out the full video on it, this seems to have loads of potential!

[@theslowfoodshow8939]

Excelente video my friend!! Specially your Oscar interpretations of a computer. RESOLVE SHOULD HAVE a keyboard shortcut to go from 1080 to 4k faster when you need to check an effect or a color correction. Also, 95% of the time we edit we use the UI with other windows, that means that even if you edit in 4k timeline you are actually seeing an 1080 rectangle inside your monitor. Thats the real reason that is pointless. Cheers !!!

[@DecoratewithManas]

@MrAlexTech while editing in 4K, the dynamic zooms red and green markers are weirdly sized for me. Have you also faced that? If yes...any solutions? Thanks. Great video as always.

[@Navostar1]

FYI I’m your 200th like. Just saying. 😎

[@ZanetDesign]

thanks for the video, a quick question, when i render a video, on my laptop which is pretty fast (i7 Dell 32gb ram etc), if i have several filters and animations taking place on a few occssions my output has shown a glitch (probably because my laptop struggled to handle it I guess) ...do should render some complex parts seperately in the vidoe and then bring them in as a new composite video to take the strain off the rendering, or is this going to lose quality / there is a better solution?

[@TheExploringBiker]

9:44 That template tip is a game changer for me, I have a standard start and effects I use on each video. Being able to start with them in place is amazing. Thanks Alex

[@GoodboiOfficial]

I edited a recent video in 8K and set the timeline resolution to quarter, which sounds like a big loss in quality, but a quarter of 8K is still 4k :D

[@andy_knight]

There's a peek in here at your colour grading workflow applied to an adjustment clip... video on that soon? 😜I'm just starting to get interested in colour grading.

[@MrAlexTech]

Ha my colour grading is very minimal! But, I'm currently working to improve my skills so do expect some colour grading tuts in the future :)

[@GigglegumsShow]

I tried editing in 1080p but nested timelines gets moved around when switching back to 4K to export.

[@Barnyz]

I already knew most of this info but the cool and entertaining way you explained it made me totally enjoy watching this. Great video 👍👍👍

[@FLASHAHOLIC_TV]

On my timeline the titles shift considerably when changing from 1080p to 4K

[@Everestchannel4]

hi just one question when u import 4k into the 1080p timeline it will come cropped I mean zoomed in and you have to set it to frame size right?

[@nomanthehero5200]

Nice one Alex. Question. If you have a real dog of a machine, or very little RAM, would it behoove you to lower the Res even lower, 720/480 for example? Cheers hombre!

[@MrAlexTech]

Yeaaa you absolutely could do 🙂👍

[@scenicshoots]

Text size changes for me when I change from low to high resolution

[@Ciiads]

O my god you are so funny and great always.👍😊

[@ToKiniAndy]

You just keep getting better at this! I literally was wondering about this yesterday, as I’ve just upgraded to a camera that can film in 4K, and my timelines were automatically starting at 1080p. And that whole template project thing was a bit mind blowing. Love it.

[@jaredfilms]

Changing timeline res. doesn’t work with Fusion Comps though.

[@KeithsTVHD1]

Lmao @ the representation of the older PC !

[@MrAlexTech]

😁 channeled my inner old man for that bit!

[@peterash9375]

Great. And hilarious. Thanx.

[@wvansluisveld3011]

I will give the timeliness proxy a go. Having the timeline resolution in 1080p and then changing it to 4K at the end didnt work for me as it messes up my fusion stuff in 3d and had to reposition all objects and cameras.

[@MarcoManzo]

That's what I thought.

[@heiko4297]

Are you kidding me? This is awesome!

[@BrokerBasil]

This was awesome Alex and I can't wait to try. My editing (same nice but aging PC laptop - Asus i7 16 GB memory and internal/external SSDs) was fine with Canon G7X mark ii footage but then I "upgraded" to a Sony A6600 and I have horrible lag anytime I try to edit - reducing my control and increasing frustration. I had tried reducing resolution already but maybe this technique will somehow help more.

[@Vladi_mir_M]

Thanks! I did not know I can change timeline resoution after I started editing

[@jayfromaz]

Tremendously great intro.

[@FlorianFrickel]

That’s was brilliant to watch 👍

[@TimetoTalkwithYevgen]

Thanks Alex, basically if I need colorgrade I need to go back to 4k timeline, right? The rule of Thumb is edit on 1920 timeline, than switch to 4 K timeline, colorgrade and deliver? What happens with colorgrading when I use proxies?

[@HybridLizard_com]

This video has everything: great tips, awesome editing and really well executed humour.

[@SotiCoto]

So if I only make videos at 1080p, should I be editing them at 480 instead? I've never even seen 4K Ultra-HD. Not sure if my monitor can do that even. Not sure if my eyeballs could even acknowledge it was happening. Just checked... 4K looks indistinguishable from 1080p on my screen. Guess it can't do it. But if I can see the bars on your irises and the individual hairs in your beard in 1080p, does that mean the individual pores on your face are visible in 4K?

[@ReceTaMix]

Good video, but... I'm not sure I got it right (I'm Spanish), but... why create timeline templates? Couldn't we just change the resolution whenever we wanted, at our convinience, without creating templates? Congrats for your channel.

[@808-Stat3]

Awesome. Thanks bro. Really liked this . Enjoyed the explanation. plain and simple and fun to watch :) Aloha

[@MrAlexTech]

Thanks man ☺️👍

[@relaxpinknoise]

can we do triple monitors instead of dual screen!!! reason asking bc I'm in need of three monitors because I use three cameras for work. When I'm editing, I prefer to have three monitors to display each camera's footage separately. This makes it much easier for me to review and select clips during timeline editing. Do you have any alternative suggestions?

[@creatorvoss]

why does that yellow-black 4k logo appears familiar ??? i think i've seen it somewhere but dont really remember where.🤔🤔🤔

[@MikeCriss]

Brilliant, timeline templates. Now do a tutorial on your kitchen scene, well done.

[@MrAlexTech]

🤣 it’s in the works.

[@KelechIwuaba]

This video was amazing

[@omarseifeldin4829]

can i deliver the same project with 4k and 1080p footage and also maybe 720p with 120fps for slowmotion, whats gonna happen if i deliver in the end with 4k how it will look like

[@STEAMpuzzle]

Thanks. When I do proxies because my CPU is an old man... I make all the proxies just after I load my content on DR. Then come back 15 min later and all of them are done. 😂

[@BidoTech]

excellent explicantion. I tried to work with a 4k video and was a headach. Mr I am watching you from The Dominican Republic.

[@arthurthedane9204]

Amazingly helpful king Alex. I am a 2021 newbie to davinci resolve & was aware of this, but worried that I might spend hours/days editing my video & then not getting it back to 4k. Once again many thanks.

[@MrAlexTech]

Hey no problem at all. If you're worried and want to test it, try a small scale test 🙂 create a 1080p timeline, do some of what you'd 'usually' do and then change to 4k and export. Make sure it all works okay and then you'll know if the workflow fits your needs 🙂👍

[@BerndKistenmacher]

Hi Alex, I had the same problem like Arthur. Now what happens, if I keep my timeline on 1080P and I go to the Deliver page and render with 4K resolution? Is it necessary to change the timeline resolution to 4K before rendering? I don't understannd where all this is connected? Your timeline tip is "just" for editing faster?

[@larryFWD]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - nuff said

[@tzgzz9245]

great tips thankyou

[@137dylan]

Thanks for making this. I have 2 quick questions: 1. if it's as simple as dropping the res to 1080p, doing all your editing, then switching it over to 4k before exporting, why don't most people do that? As so many people it seems are obsessed with getting super duper hardware that handles 4k easily?! 2. will this solution help if i have multiple 4k files i need to edit? example: 1 x main cam's 4k footage and then 2 x go pro 4k footage, all being edited into the same video? Thanks a lot!

[@johnnysimandjuntak]

Was exited to try this out! But it didn't completely work out with my h.265/60fps/4k footage. Running a Ryzen7/GeForce RTX3060/32GB RAM/1GB NVMe ssd. Tried lowering the playback preview to a quarter and dropping the footage to an 1080p timeline. The only working solution for me where media proxies.

[@SyleshVenugopal]

Brilliant !!! Explained Well :)

[@GenMT0924]

Quick question... If I work with Full HD (1920x1080) in the timeline and now change to 4k in the export settings... will that work? That I end up with a 4k video? I am currently still a beginner in the program and thought it always has to be 4k in the timeline so that I get a 4k video.

[@derJackistweg]

I am a German guy we measure in kW/h. Would make it easier. What you call battery life is just energy consumption. A lower bat. consumption is better. Though I just recently learnt, that the kW/h costs just 10US ct. Germany is roughly 5-times that!!!!

[@fc1133]

Great video. Thanks for posting. Having said this, maybe you have a "minute" (or someone else for that matter) to help me out? I just need to understand the very basics of codecs, timelines and exports. I looked everywhere, but every tutorial out there seems to skip over the basic basics of the very basic stuff, if you know what I mean!? 1. I have a ton of GoPro files, but my PC is too old to have a smooth workflow in Davinci Resolve, so I use 5DtoRGB to convert the files to ProRes 422. This allows me to work with them, with no issues. Here is my question: Can I "convert" back and forth between codecs, and if so, what consequences will this have on the files!? Lets say you have a GoPro Video (either h.264/AVC videos in MP4 file container or H.265/HEVC files in MOV file container) and convert it to ProRes 422, and then back to the original GoPro Format. Will this this somehow "decrease" the quality, or is it kind of like zipping a file and then unzipping it!? 2. What difference does it make which resolution my timeline has!? Does it matter if my timeline is HD or 4K? 3. Same goes for exporting. You start with 4K, edit in HD timeline and then export to 4k again. OR, you start with 4k Edit in 4k and then export in HD, or 4k or whatever. Then back to the original file format... You see what I mean!? All these different formats?! What the heck??? Thanks.

[@dronytruckdrone4891]

So Alex,let me see if I understood well. I can get my A Roll,B Roll and DRone footage in 4K resolution,edit in 1080p x1920 then once I done,click on timelines settings,export in 4K then,upload that vídeo to KZbin? If that is real,you're a beast,I did not know that Alex so,please let me know if I understood well. Thanks Brother,the best as always. Apologies 4 my English.

[@Who.Said.Photography]

YOU'RE a GENIUS!!!! I've always had issues with 4K playback, This helped me immensely Whoot Whoot

[@techlitindia]

I know all these things but can't explain like this, it's hard dude!! but you pulled this off so nicely. Great 👍😃

[@ZachAtaxx]

What about monitors? I plan to start doing 4k real estate videography but I’m debating if I should get a viewsonic 32” 4k at 60hz, a LG u32” ergo 4k at 60hz with free sync or I could get the 1440p viewsonic ultrawide with a 100hz refresh rate cause I also like to game.

[@kenyontech]

Great job. Ive just started out. You've helped a lot. Do you have any video on how to organize your computer /storage locations drives etc. I seem some speak about having RAW media / cache files/rendered files on different loavtions or drives. Do you have any tips for someone whoay not yet have a NAS etc.. thanks.

[@burakfarukkilicaslan2293]

Great video thanks.. A question: What happens if I import 4k video, work on 1080p timeline and export 4k upscaled? Will davinci resolve use 4k video as the source or render 1080p and upscale? I am trying to figure out if there would be quality issues.

[@michaelp3736]

Quick question (assuming you are someone is still responding to this older, but still relevant video). If I have 4K AND 8k clips and put into (or convert a current 4K timeline) to 1080, then before rendering, change back to a 4K timeline, do I lose anything on the 8K clips? Many of those are shot in 8K due to cropping I may need to do in post so I don’t want to lose anything in this conversion process. Thanks and great video as always!

[@RoadReality]

What a great video! The FX, b roll, special bits [I love the new vs old computer one]. Also, very informative - I quickly figured out that even my gaming laptop wasn't happy with multicam 4k clips, so I converted the timeline to 1080, did my editing, and then set it back to 4k for export. Very easy on the computer and me.

[@dwg1982]

What about filming in 1080p, editing in 1080p but wanting to export to 4k, I imagine its not real 4k but assume still improved the overall quality? I'm looking at becoming a wedding videographer and with file sizes, camera battery life will be shooting in 1080p but would like to export higher than it to improve the quality and do a close to 4k output

[@dadomultimediamusic]

Hi Alex, first of all, thank you so much for sharing all your experience and knowledge that has been so useful for everyone that we had seen your videos. I´m having this struggle without know how to deal with it, I have a Mac (Hackintosh) with a processor 13900k, 64GB ram, a good Motherboard Asus ProArt Creator, 3TB, and the RX580 8GB. I started editing a wedding video, that has 5 angles for Multicam, long videos for example the ceremony: 1 hour, in 4K! So, I try to use proxies, converting the files, and I couldn´t continue because I was in the need of more storage in my 2 NVME 1TB each, the first one, I had to whole project taking almost 1TB I tried also to use all the preview at 1/4 and running at 7fps!!!! Completely frustrated until now. I´ve been thinking to downsize the files from 4K to 1080p, because at the end, the final delivery will be at 1080p, I´m open to suggestions or tips. Thank you so much in advance.

[@RotarySMP]

Excellent. Thanks for making that.

[@robertalan237]

Does not work. When I open the timeline saved to my desktop the project settings are 4k resolution even after I saved the timeline with the 1080p setting you showed on the tut. Tried multiple times making sure in the blank project the project setting are set to 1080p and the timeline settings are saved exactly as you show. Using Resolve 18.1- maybe a bug in my version, not sure. Any help why it is not working as you show would be appreciated. Thanks.

[@cb2000a]

Honestly, I still shoot in 1080 a lot. Most people can't tell the difference between 1080 and 4k. I suppose if you were projecting on a huge screen you might but not on most people's systems. Dynamic range and 10 bit color are way more important.

[@MathieuTechMoto]

Lots of great tips

[@adimatis]

Excellent indeed!!! :)

[@aov_james]

Is there way to leave timeline setting at 1080p for better performance and monitor in 4K on bigger screen?(via ultrastudio 4k mini on TV)?

[@64fedtmule]

Really good video, thanks What is the big difference on the end result when having a 1080p timeline and and exporting in 4k and having a 4k timeline and exporting in 4k ? Thinking editing in 1080p timeline, change it to 4k before export, or just exporting the 1080p to 4k BTW, which monitor are you using ?

[@MARKSMISCELLANEOUS]

Thanks Alex! Just editing my first ever 4K project (always late to the party!) and this was a big help! Is that a W Mids accent I hear sir? :-))

[@gaetanobruno5889]

one question: when you change the timeline resolution itself to 1080p in the "media pool" but the project settings/master settings is 4k . what will happen? do i have to mess with master settings too or do i leave it alone.

[@seraphin01]

I always made proxy actually but I'm gonna try this technique instead.. Only issue I don't think I can use your technique with bumping the time-line resolution since I work in 4 and 8 k dci so the ratio won't stay consistent. But the option to half or quarter the resolution playback should be just fine though

[@nicolasnicolas3889]

Wow, your brilliant! Thanks for this, never really considered this as atm it's not really relevant for what I'm doing but to know this is so useful for future reference, thanks buddy! ;D

[@Eddy04tv]

Just brilliant. I think one of the things that have become dreadful in my KZbin Video creation process is how much time the editing process can take. Will definitely go back and prep my workflow. Create a Timeline preset, get a LUT and speed things up.

[@RobUnwraps]

Why change your timeline back to 4k at the end there? Can't you just deliver it in 4k? Is there a difference if you do?

[@pgtips4240]

Can I ask what the advantage is of doing this over just having a template project saved in a Template Library? I have just experimented with this and from what I see, there are limitations when using a saved timeline in that it cannot save multiple timelines unless you create a master timeline and have the other timelines on the master timeline then save the master timeline. But this feels like a hack as when you open it up you have this annoying additional timeline you did not really want or need in the project. Also, it does not save any organisational structure of your content. From my experimentation, just saving a project in the project library overcomes these aforementioned limitations of having a saved timeline. You can save a template project with multiple timelines and a default folder structure. You can also edit in 1080p in the same manner you described and then just up the resolution for exporting. Am I missing something? I just cannot see the advantage. The only advantage I see is if you want to share timelines between projects in which case you can export a particular timeline and then import it into a different working project. I do see this as maybe being useful or if you want to share a project across different computers. There is also an archive feature in DR for doing this. I did learn a few things from your video though and I will definitely be editing in 1080p going forward because I agree with you that it's just a nicer experience as my computer just eats through 1080p effortlessly. Thanks for the video, although I raised some questions, I did really enjoy watching and it challenged me to look into changing my workflow.

[@peternavanac9310]

Wow, that was an awesome workflow. Really, really useful. Soooooo much half baked rubbish on youtube!! This kind of content is what makes youtube worth coming too.

[@Rocketryman]

I hope in 2 years you have discovered that you do not film VIDEO. :-) Two different skill sets and historical timelines. Digital Video is what film wished it was. You shoot, and produce, or how about make most of your video in 4k. And another way to compare 1080 to 4k is that anything bigger than 1080 is anamorphic and does not necessarily affect image quality.

[@FlyingPetschman]

4 the algo ... thank u

[@DK_hobby]

Few questions… please help the newbie! 1. if im editing in 1080 space with 4k footages. But want to render in 4k , is there a difference between ur “changing timeline setting to 4k then send it deliver” method vs sending the 1080 time line to deliver and selecting 4k output from pull down? 2. im editing in 1080 space with 4k footages. But during few scenes, im zooming (x2-3 times) into some clips, at this point, is Davinci getting my original 4k footages to “stretch” less during this zoom in? Or is it stretching the 1080 clips that are in the editing scene? Thank you!

[@definingslawek4731]

I'm on an m1 air so it struggles even in 1080p timelines, I was wondering if there would be any issue with keyframes and scaling if I want to export 4k but I cut it in a 720p timeline temporarily

[@benjamin_lecomte]

Awesome tips, i'm from the production world for photographie and template are a huge saving of time for consistant production so i was looking for something that does the same but for video. Thx a lot :)

[@PuffinPass]

I work in 1080 timeline and render in 4k. While I am not the best or most experienced editor or colorist I think that all the sweat over detail is kind of a losing battle anyway. You have to consider that the vast majority of your viewers on any given YT channels is most likely viewing your product on a phone. While it will be crisp on many phones there is also a lot of that small detail that will be lost due to screen size, streaming speed and YT defaulting to 1080p in most cases unless on Wifi and you force it to higher resolution. I don't think I am wrong in this opinion but am I?