[David Baud]

Hard to tell from here without much info about:

. media format

. timeline settings including frame size, frame rate etc…

. render format output

. internal and/or external hard drive? sizes?

. GPU VRAM size

. CPU RAM size

So many things can go wrong…

[David Baud]

This is what I would have done from the Clip attributes panel. Do you have any chart recorded so you can double check the result?

You can also check this website:

https://www.sharegrid.com/learn/lens-test-home

[David Baud]

Can you tell us how you are monitoring your SDR trimming? are you using different monitors for HDR and SDR? what is your hardware configuration of your system?

[David Baud]

You can disable the viewer update while rendering (in the Delivery page) by selecting the drop down menu from the three dots top right corner of the viewer monitor, and select Update During Renders > OFF. Page 3503 of the v17 manual.

[David Baud]

You need to make sure that the Track Selector is ON for all the tracks you want to select using the shortcut key. On your picture you can tell V1 is not selected. For more information about the track selector check the DaVinci Resolve Manual v17 (from the Help menu yo can access to it) – page 598

[David Baud]

Unfortunately it will be difficult to give you a recipe without looking at your footage, and knowing what is more important to you between small file size or best video quality.

Also if you are concerned about encoding speed, this is something else to take into account.

For Youtube and Vimeo upload, most of my video export today are done in H.265 because you get a good compromise between small file size and “good enough” video quality. If you don’t have a system with a recent cpu (2-3 years old processor) H.265 might take longer to encode versus H.264.

If you are really concerned about video quality, then you should upload intra-frame codec compressed file, but they will be much bigger file size and depending the length of your program, you might not have enough bandwidth with Youtube.

If you are still on the fence, I would run a 1-minute test of your footage with different compression settings and judge by yourself once uploaded to Youtube. Do not forget that Youtube will reencode your footage no matter what you do on your end.

I hope this helps.

[David Baud]

My guess is that you have some clips with different frame rates in your film that is confusing Resolve. Exporting with Individual Clips selected will retain the original attributes for the clips. As a workaround you may want to conform these clips separately before your export.

[David Baud]

What are your export settings that give you trouble?

[David Baud]

Why do you have to synchronize by hand? Resolve provide you with the possibility of syncing your footage automatically by comparing the camera mic sound waveform to your master sound waveform. If you have fair sound level recording, in my experience it works pretty well.

#1 – it sounds to me you prefer to keep it that way…

#2 – if you mouse click-right in the head tracks, you can select Delete Empty Tracks. Is it what you are looking for?

[David Baud]

To me different frame rates in the same project and interlaced footage has never been Resolve strong point. With v17 I believe they made some improvement from previous versions (i.e support timelines with different frame rates in the same project and better de-interlacing support) but I believe they are still some issues… and maybe you are running into them.

Which steps are you taking to import your timeline from AVID into Resolve? what are your footage file format?

One things I would try is to setup your Resolve settings at the project level first (Project settings > Master settings) instead of the the particular timeline settings, and see if that helps. I would then import all your footage first in Resolve Media page and then import your timeline AAF file.

Regarding the notation for interlaced footage or progressive, I believe the software is confused!? Interlaced footage notation is indicated by adding the “i” after the resolution and before the frame rate (ie 1080i59.94) except SMPTE and EBU standardization disagreed on how to do it: SMPTE likes to indicate the frame rate as # of fields (29.97fps x 2 = 59.94) whereas EBU prefers to use the full frame rate (29.97fps). Therefore an interlaced video at 29.97fps will be shown as:

SMPTE = 1080i59.94

EBU = 1080i29.97

I am not completely sure which notation standard is Resolve using, especially when the software field dissociate interlace from the frame rate… maybe someone knows?