Resolve 16 Deliver to H.264 stops in middle

[Michael Gissing]

Can you render it to any other codec like DNx? Where are you rendering the H264 to. Is it a thumb drive with a format that limits file sizes to 4gig?

If you can get it to render to another codec, then use that file to make the h264

[Pat Horridge]

What file system (format) is the destination drive?
I suspect you output H264 maybe exceeding the max file size if your drive is FAT32

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[Marc Wielage]

[Peter Robertson] “I have a complex multicam project using original camera codecs.
I have all my media on SSD’s with enough free space and have a new iMac. The edit went ok but the delivery to H.264 Master stops after about 20 minutes of content.”
Cheap workaround: render to a mezzanine format like ProRes 422 or 422HQ, then take the completed 422 file and render that to H.264 in a separate session. See if that works.

Worst case: use a 3rd-party free app like Handbreak to convert the ProRes to H.264, or a paid app like Adobe Media Encoder.

I have been successful rendering out H.264 from Resolve 16, but it is slow and I generally have to drop the render speed. But I have not tried it with a super-long project like a 2-hour feature or something. Generally when I post client previews to Frame.io, I use ProRes LT and let the website do its own compression thing. If the client wants the original LT file, they can download that, too.

[Peter Robertson]

Thanks to all for your help.
I resolved the problem by rendering simply in Quicktime H.264.
Actually I think the problem was that Resolve 16 crashed, which on this project (and with my iMac) occurred a few times.
Many thanks
Peter