Color stripe appears on some frames in exported video

[Tero Ahlfors]

Are you, by any chance, using a trashcan Mac Pro?

[Fay Gartenberg]

Hi Tero,

Yes. I am working on a mac pro trashcan.

[Tero Ahlfors]

This has been a problem ever since the trashcan was released. It was designed to look nice but they didn’t care about the cooling so it’ll overheat and you get some neat artifacting because of that. You can try a few things: if you’re under warranty then try to get the GPUs changed, force Resolve to render slower or blast the machine with a fan while you’re working to cool it down.

[Marc Wielage]

You can use a free utility called Macs Fan Control to kick the fan up to 1800RPM, which will cool off the overheating GPUs.

In general, the steps are:

1) shut down and let the machine cool off for at least 30 minutes
2) reboot it and go directly into Resolve without launching any other programs
3) turn the fans off with Macs Fan Control
4) get the temperature no more than about 100-105° F
5) render at a slow speed (10fps or 4fps)

And this will sometimes work. Worst case, render out the material in segments to an intermediate format, then stitch those together for final delivery.

I had terrible problems with a 6-core a few years ago, but a second 12-core Trashcan has been very, very good at not overheating and causing glitches.

[Declan Smith]

Interesting that I had a similar export issue but with Audio, i.e. short Pop at the beginning of an audio fade. When listening on the timeline, absolutely no problem, when rendered out to H.264, a glitch at the same place every time, even after clearing render caches etc. When I reviewed the ProRes master I created, no glitch. Maybe there is some issue with H.264 encoding in Resolve.

My computer is not a Trashcan Mac, it’s a 2009 MacPro upgraded to 2010, 2 x 3.46Ghz Processors, 64Gb Ram, and an Nvidia GeForce-GTX Titan 6Gb GPU.

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
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[Marc Wielage]

[Declan Smith] “Interesting that I had a similar export issue but with Audio, i.e. short Pop at the beginning of an audio fade. When listening on the timeline, absolutely no problem, when rendered out to H.264, a glitch at the same place every time, even after clearing render caches etc. When I reviewed the ProRes master I created, no glitch. Maybe there is some issue with H.264 encoding in Resolve. “
My workaround for now would be to use the ProRes master you created (which is a good idea, BTW) and use another program like QuickTime or Adobe Media Encoder to make the H.264. If it’s going to YouTube note that they re-encode a lot of stuff anyway, so you could just try uploading the QuickTime and let YouTube re-encode it for you.

I routinely upload ProRes LT to Vimeo Pro and Frame.io, and it looks fine to me. On Frame.io, they’ll keep it in that native form without re-encoding for anybody who wants to download it (password-protected).