David Baud
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On a Mac, yes. Make sure you are installing DaVinci Resolve as the Administrator of your computer. It should be available to any users on that Mac.
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On top of what Michael says, I would check your Preferences settings for Resolve and manually check some of the Memory and GPU and Video and Audio I/O settings.
Also make sure you don’t have any unwanted cache rendering in the background and that you know the storage location has plenty of space and have fast read/write access.
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For editing, if you don’t mind to work with proxies, version 17 made it even easier to switch between your original footage and your proxies.
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Even with waveform turned on, I have seen that behavior with some camera footage and long take. Sometime it might take some time to have the waveform updated.
what is your file format? the length of the clip?
I would try to cleanup cache and render files.
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8-bit depth and compression video capture work against you in color grading. My recommendation would be to shoot it as close as what you want for your finished film. Cinematographer knowing the camera in and out will be able to get the most out of it. Don’t expect “to fix” things in post from that kind of footage.
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Me neither watching my computer monitor…
I would suspect an issue with your monitoring. Do you have a proper reference monitor, pixels for pixels display?
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It depends on what your master delivery frame size and aspect ratio are?
If you’d like to fill the frame with your footage, depending the workflow stage you are at, I can see at least 2-ways to deal with this:
. go to File > Project Settings > Image Scaling and select Scale entire image to fit in Input scaling and/or Output scaling
. In your EDIT page, select the clip and in the Inspector panel, under Transform, adjust the Zoom settings to your liking
Also if you’d like to output a letterbox format (black bars), go to Timeline > Output blanking and select the appropriate letterboxing format.
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Hmmm… I am with Joseph and Jim on this one. If you are concerned to get the right hard drives for your work using DaVinci Resolve, it does not make sense to me to look at your hard drives configuration only, separate from your GPU/CPU selection. As you may already know, reading and writing a movie file, is not only about the speed of your hard drive but also how fast the file is decoded and encoded.
“For instance, I frequently use Raw 4k footage from a Sony F55, which Sony tells us is 1000Mbps / 125 MBps.”
This number does not mean much regarding the need for your hard drive speed. It tells you the bandwidth needed when recording RAW footage (storage space). Sony RAW is not as compressed as XAVC-I or DNxHD file formats. Usually uncompressed format is faster to encode and decode, but again it depends on other parameters in your computer system like your CPU & GPU. Faster is your drive, better is your chance to avoid the bottleneck of reading/writing your file and sending the data to the next processing phase in CPU/GPU. Another concern is the space left on your drive: a full hard drive can be much slower than an empty one.
Unless you have only one type of file format you are working with (which in real post-production workflow does not happen), I believe it will be very difficult to get any meaningful speed number that will help you to decide which drive system to get. My recommendation would be to get the fastest drive system you can for your budget, based on the intended task.
I am a colorist and finishing editor, working on documentary and feature film projects. I work with all kind of footage from Arri, RED, Canon, Sony, GoPro… in RAW, Log or compressed formats. From SD to 8K frame sizes. In order to handle the variety of formats, our main computer system is configured with a mix of storage systems, tailored to the usage we need. The fastest we have is based on M.2 NVMe memory, 4 X 2TB attached directly to a PCIe card, RAID-0 mounted with speed rate up to 12,000 MB/s. This is ideal for color grading using process intensive nodes such as noise reduction/grain or other OFX plugins.
We also use SSD and traditional “spin disks”external hard drive, in RAID configuration or not. These systems give us anywhere from 200 MB/s to 4,000 MB/s rates speed. Some of them are used for media caches, backup redundancy, or less intensive files processing.
I hope this information will help you in your decision making.
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I would make sure that your first media storage in the list is your fastest drive on your system and that it has enough room left. You can list your media storage in DaVinci Resolve > Preferences > System > Media Storage
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Not all the nodes work in 3D. Make sure you use a 3D nodes. You can find out about all the 3D Texture nodes in the manual – p1794