Unlock No-Lag Playback | Resolve Render Mastery

[@MarkLargo]

This is probably the best Resolve video any user must know about.

[@BramLiemburg]

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!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

You're welcome, thanks so much for hanging out with me here.

[@Superjeanmarc]

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?” …

[@CreativeVideoTips]

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.

[@Superjeanmarc]

@@CreativeVideoTips Hopefully one day they regroup everything into one place with a more intuitive UI.

[@movie-trailer19]

Excellent tips on Render Place, which was used extremely rarely. It's relevant now. Thank you for the detailed and visual analysis

[@outdoorsinontario3037]

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!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Glad it was helpful!

[@HI-SiteAerials]

Thank you!!! You have effectively demystified the render cache process for me! I have saved this video to my playlists and will be rewatching this often (because it’s so rich with helpful info!).

[@CreativeVideoTips]

@@HI-SiteAerials thank you! I hope it helps. The collaboration aspect of this took me a long time to understand.

[@_WyngX]

Thank you so much Chadwick. This was incredibly useful.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

thank you!

[@cheerlin]

Very useful I been scratching my head how these 2 type works and behave. Beginner resolve users for non profit projects

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Glad it was helpful!

[@adrianoclinquart]

Great channel.Great tip for Corrupted offline cache!!! Congrats 👍

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ShadowMakerSdR]

These are very thorough videos, Chadwick. Really well done. It's much appreciated.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Much appreciated!

[@AtricyonKorigami]

This is so helpful. Thank you so much for explaining this. No confusion this time🎉🎉🎉

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Glad it was helpful!

[@VFXRefugee]

I'm still on my Intel iMac, so every little tip helps. Thank you.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

No problem!

[@ValleyAerialsLLC]

This the best explination video EVER! Thank you!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks so much for watching - glad it helped

[@terr20114]

I feel like an expert. I knew everything in this video 😃

[@CreativeVideoTips]

you are an expert! :)

[@Helsingborg36]

Such an important feature. I just wish it would work every time. Often clips don’t playback smooth even though smart cache or user cache is enabled. It’s weird. One pro tip: when im in a hurry I set the render cache to HQ and so I basically always export while editing. When it comes to exporting, I check use render cached images and it exports extremely fast because everything is basically already rendered.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Yeah for those clips that still have issues - render in place seems to always work

[@_pierre_]

Nice to see that you too have and use a Black Magic Editor Keyboard, Chadwick.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

I'm evaluating it the past few weeks - new video coming out soon on it. Do you have one or like it?

[@_pierre_]

@@CreativeVideoTips You and I have talked about this before. Have been using this for over two years now. I am more than happy with it. Wouldn't want anything else, knowing that everyone has their own reasons for using this beast or not. Enjoy using the Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard.

[@pixelrancher]

Always great information in your tutorials. Thanks.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

glad it was helpful - thanks for continuing to be a great supporter

[@uehal]

Could you please share us some tips about media managing, files and folders sorting and structure on computer and inside DR (footage, cache, renders)? Thank you!🙏

[@CreativeVideoTips]

good suggestion - noted

[@WeareVRMUSIC]

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 🤯

[@CreativeVideoTips]

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.

[@JimRobinson-colors]

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.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

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.

[@vshvarts]

Thank you! I didn't know I need it! Really helps with denoising gopro footage

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Glad it helped!

[@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker]

Thanks Chadwick.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

thank you Dave!

[@PipOz999]

Great as always! 🤘

[@johannes3530]

when I am importing an EXR sequenz into the timeline, i did with fusion, i like to use optimized media. Because I can quickly switch between using optimized media and showing the original files, without having to go trough the "render in place" and "decompose to original" process. Regardless, great tutorial

[@CreativeVideoTips]

@@johannes3530 interstesting. Are you doing the render of the sequence in resolve fusion saver? I'll have to try that out.

[@johannes3530]

@@CreativeVideoTips I work with EXR sequenzes on heavy VFX shots. I export the video as EXR sequenz directly from Davinci Fusion with a Saver on AcesCG color space into a folder. I am doing my stuff with fusion standalone and reimporting the EXR sequenz directly into the timeline of Davinci Project. Cause my quiet strong machine does not like the EXR sequenz on the timeline, i am doing a optimized media on the sequenz and it plays smoothly. When i go ahead to color grading, i disable prefer optimized media for playback. But i know, its just 1 out of hundreds ways to get job done :)

[@billsspaceshow2998]

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.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Hey, we're practically neighbors. I'm just up the hudson valley. You've been at this for a long time - you should share your wisdom here! :)

[@billsspaceshow2998]

@@CreativeVideoTips I've been watching you for a while, especially as I've been working my way into Resolve more and more. I didn't realize we were in the same neighborhood. As for wisdom? I don't know man. All I can really say to everyone is be good and be nice - it's the best way to get people to want to hire you. I think you probably have that down!

[@ant00n11s]

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.

[@jijosankar2521]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@goldbrick2563]

Thank you, this is great

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Glad it was helpful!

[@thomvarey]

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!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

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.

[@EdwardKilner]

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

[@seanmartinflix]

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.

[@EdwardKilner]

@@seanmartinflix I thought this video was going to be about the render page… .

[@CreativeVideoTips]

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.

[@808Buddha]

this is awesome! thx❤

[@nitromusik9275]

Gold content!

[@piochuajr]

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.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

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.

[@piochuajr]

@@CreativeVideoTips wow! thank you so much sir! 🙏 will try your recommendation!

[@Juanmatocco]

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?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

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.

[@Juanmatocco]

@@CreativeVideoTips thanks for the answer 🙌

[@marclattoni1959]

Thanks!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

hey thank you so much!

[@AlexandreBlaisVideographer]

Thanks! When you render in place, is it better to decompose in place before make the final export to keep quality or it does not make a difference?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

I don't decompose - but just make sure you make the render in place with a high quality codec like ProRes 4444, and source resolution.

[@AlexandreBlaisVideographer]

@@CreativeVideoTips Thank you!

[@Moroder_Drone]

Very good... but imagine a title in some area.... I use render in place BUT the background is black how can I solve this? Thanks

[@GraphicdesignforFree]

Very helpful!

[@abyshines]

You shifted to editors keyboard, aghhhh. I just bought speed editor, do you find this better or speed editor better?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Hey this Friday's video is talking about it. I haven't fully switched. I'm undecided and borrowing this unit. The speed editor is still super excellent.

[@abyshines]

@@CreativeVideoTips I always looked at your videos , and you have helped me do better video editing, It was not easy but i have improved over time, finally i decided i needed the speed editor, and i love the multicam function which helped me with this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3jWn5-YaNmSqMk and also the compact size of it plus the bluetooth function. Gets little muscle training to adapt to two keyboards but totally worth it. Thanks a ton for replying and the update. Keep creating CreativeVideos and more.

[@vigneshsrao]

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?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

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.

[@kinoromantic]

Hi. Every time I set the Resolve to save the cache in the SSD on the Mac it keep yelling at me saying it failed to cache it. I learned to ignore it but the pop up windows are annoying. I think it has something to do with mac's or davinci's permissions that goes beyond simple toggle options in the settings. If you encountered SSD permission problems with Resolve please let us know in the comments or in a separate video. Thanks!

[@AlexDelfont]

Thanks, is there any issue with choosing the render cache location as a folder where all my project files are, so it will be different each time...I wanted to keep my render cache with my project. And also then I can delete render cache files on a per project basis. But I wonder if there are any cons to this?

[@MegaShowmaster]

2:18 Davinci Resolve will update the cash files automagically 🤣 I completely agree, the way it does its thing is just like magic to me :)

[@CreativeVideoTips]

heck yeah, this is one of those things that I'm glad I don't have to push another button and can grab a coffee refill

[@pierrickodent3005]

Huge Thanks 🙏

[@CreativeVideoTips]

thank you!

[@DroseMr]

Maybe one day ill get the nerve for DR. Thank You

[@xodius80]

awesome

[@CreativeVideoTips]

thanks!

[@TrungVũ-b4o]

Amazing

[@CreativeVideoTips]

You are

[@pxlmvr7]

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.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

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.

[@filmmaking2444]

Fingers crossed we'll get an update with "render in and out" like in premirere pro

[@CreativeVideoTips]

that would be a nice update

[@GaryCunninghamyouareenough]

🙏🤘

[@CreativeVideoTips]

cheers

[@slimsouthern]

i have the M3 max and I was editing a 3 and a half minute video with NR and sharpening. Light color editing. It was lagging so bad on the NR clips. I tried proxies and cache and still would barely play the clips. Can anyone help?

[@petrub27]

is not better to use proxyes?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

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.

[@frankinblackpool]

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.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

This is very good feedback and noted. Thank you for letting me know - I'm working on slowing down and the video I'm working on for this week will be more casual.

[@frankinblackpool]

@@CreativeVideoTips You are most welcome. You may not realise this but I am considered a "Big Thing" in KZbin land, scoring tens of views. It was pleasure chatting.😀

[@cheerlin]

For render cache, once I move all clips, even a few second back or forward (either inserting new clips or removing clips), it render all again, consuming cpu/gpu resources, is there any way to disable this? If not, I would like to know how is this desirable as there is no “changes” to the effects or transitions per se.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

you will want to use the user cache instead - there is no way to disable it if this is happening in smart mode.

[@cheerlin]

@@CreativeVideoTips noted thanks!

[@TheTjark57]

Get a M3 Max. Never lags...Never. Other than that, great tips as always!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

thanks for the tip and feedback!

[@arkreatives]

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

[@leoquesto9183]

Haha. Have the M3 MAX(ed) out. It’s great, however… it will lag on a 2hr timeline, with a ton of comps, effects, NR, etc. Still use proxies!

[@ismafp]

😅😅😅 another fan boy editing simple timelines.

[@TheTjark57]

@@leoquesto9183 we just finished a 240min doc with RED Raw 6k Footage. Not one lag. No Proxies. Maybe your Harddrive Cache is the limit.

[@FranzMetrixs]

10:35 I am batman

[@mazefaer]

sometimes h.264 also be cache。

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Yeah, I've heard that and it says that in the manual - I'm not sure what triggers it though. Any ideas?

[@mazefaer]

@@CreativeVideoTips I think BMD will check your hardware, if it can't play some H.264(10bit422) footage, Resolve will cache.

[@ΓιάννηςΒαρούσης]

I want to switch to resolve...and then i see something like this...

[@TroyQwert]

Cash instead of making it better slows down playback. 😊

[@ekphotography]

I solved my problem with an M2 Max Studio

[@CreativeVideoTips]

heck yeah, and also great machine (that's my main workhorse)

[@sbn0466]

I keep thinking about getting a m2 studio or making a custom PC... i ve seen multiple people say that the m chips are better for editing programs. Did you try in it AE?